About this role
Job summary Akari Care is offering an exciting opportunity for a temporary position as a Care Home Assistant Practitioner (CHAP) in Newcastle upon Tyne. This role focuses on providing top-tier personalized care to elderly residents within an award-winning care home environment. Working within a supportive community, CHAPs are critical team members who collaborate with fully trained nurses, ensuring the diverse needs of residents are met. With a competitive hourly rate, a variety of benefits, and opportunities for career development, this role seeks individuals with a caring nature and strong leadership and communication skills to make a positive impact in the lives of older people.
Main duties of the job As a Care Home Assistant Practitioner (CHAP) at Akari Care, you will be working closely with a seasoned nursing team, addressing the physical, emotional, and mental needs of residents. You'll be a key player in maintaining high-quality individualized care, working alongside colleagues, families, and external professionals to promote residents' dignity and identities. Akari Care values compassionate excellence, and this role allows you to evolve in a nurturing environment that encourages both personal and professional growth. Core responsibilities include supporting day-to-day nursing requirements, assisting with medical care, and ensuring residents live life to the fullest.
About us Akari Care is committed to establishing valued, respectful, and nurturing environments where elderly residents receive personalized care. With a mission to make meaningful, positive differences in older people's lives, Akari Care thrives through teamwork and a community spirit. Employees at Akari Care, including Care Home Assistant Practitioners, benefit from a competitive salary, pension contributions, full training, and career development support. Embracing a values-driven approach, Akari Care offers an inclusive, engaging community environment that respects and includes everyone. By fostering empowerment through leadership, Akari Care ensures that their team is always ready to accommodate residents' needs with empathy and professionalism.
Job description Job responsibilities
Package Description:
Care Home Assistant Practitioner (CHAPS)
If you are passionate about caring for the elderly and want to build a long-term career in one of our award-winning homes, then look no further than Akari Care. Our aim is to create an environment where our residents are valued, respected, and are offered the personalised care they deserve.
We now seek a Care Home Assistant Practitioner who is passionate about, and thrives on, making a real and positive difference to the lives of older people.
Playing a fundamental and integral part of our united and extended care team you will assist in looking after the physical, mental and emotional needs of our residents to help us deliver the highest quality, individualised care they require.
As one of our Care Home Assistant Practitioners (CHAPs) you will collaboratively work alongside our fully trained Nurses to support and assist with the day to day nursing needs of our residents, thus allowing our Nurses the time and resource to tend to the needs of the more complex nursing requirements of some of our residents.
By showing us you can match our values with the right desire for personalised excellence, community spirit and a kind, caring and compassionate nature, we, in return, can offer you a career developing your knowledge, skills and abilities to support vulnerable adults with the care their individual needs require.
Whilst undertaking a wide range of duties which support the highest quality of personalised medical and clinical care to our residents, you will also help and cooperate with colleagues, family members and our extended range of external qualified professionals which make up our overall care community, to fulfil our aim of helping to maintain the identity and dignity of our residents with a focus on living life to the fullest for each individual.
What we require from you:
Care Home Assistant Practitioner Certification
A caring nature to give everyone a personal approach
Proven ability to lead by example, motivate a team and delegate effectively
Have a coaching style leadership mentality to empower your colleagues
Good communication and relationship building skills
Flexible and adaptable to changes at short notice
Warm, approachable, and engaging persona
Respect everyone, treating others as you would expect to be treated
Whats in it for you:
A competitive salary of £15.74
Pension contribution of 5%
Recognition schemes and rewarding referral schemes
Uniform provided and DBS check costs paid
28 days annual leave (based on full-time hours, including Bank Holidays)
Flexible working patterns
Fully funded training and development
Support with personal development plans
The opportunity to grow and develop both personally and professionally
An engaging community environment where everyone is respected and included
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Care Home Assistant Practitioner Certification, A caring nature, Proven ability to lead and motivate a team, Coaching style leadership, Good communication skills, Flexible and adaptable, Approachable and engaging, Respectful demeanor
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details Employer name Akari Care Limited
Address Akari Care
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE5 3AB
Employer's website https://www.akaricare.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)