About this role
Job summary The Senior Care Assistant position at Akari Care in Stanley is a temporary night shift role. Akari Care is a reputable provider of personalized nursing and residential care in England and Wales. The role offers a competitive salary of £13.50 to £14.50 per hour, depending on qualifications. As a Senior Care Assistant, you will support care assistants in delivering high-quality care, leading care planning, supporting social activities, and supervising training for new staff. This role requires a caring nature, good communication skills, adaptability, and a respectful approach to residents and colleagues.
Main duties of the job Akari Care is seeking experienced Senior Care Assistants or aspiring Care Assistants ready to advance in their careers. The role involves delivering quality care, overseeing care planning, facilitating social activities, and training new staff, aligned with Akari's values of being Personalised, Kind, Caring, Trusted, and Community-focused. The environment should feel like home for residents and their families. Applicants should have a caring nature, good communication skills, flexibility, an engaging persona, and respect for others. Benefits include a competitive salary, pension, recognition and referral schemes, access to Wagestream, uniform, DBS check, annual leave, and development support.
About us Akari Care is dedicated to providing personalized nursing and residential care within communities across England and Wales. They have built a supportive and inclusive environment within their homes, ensuring that residents receive the care they need in comfortable settings. Akari Care values a personalized approach that is kind, caring, trusted, and community-oriented. They offer a culture where the atmosphere feels like home for residents and their visiting families, underlining the organization's commitment to creating a family-like environment. Akari Care supports the personal and professional development of their staff.
Job description Job responsibilities
Package Description:
Akari Care is a trusted provider of personalised nursing and residential care within local communities across England and Wales.
Are you already an experienced Senior Care Assistant or a Care Assistant looking to take the next step within your career? If so, we are looking for exactly the right type of people to be part of our supportive and inclusive community within our homes.
Working alongside the care assistants, you will be responsible for delivering the highest quality levels of care to our residents. This includesobserving, reviewing, and finalising care planning needs, assisting, and coming up with ideas for social activities and supporting the training and supervision of junior and new colleagues in an Akari value driven way.
We look to our trusted care teams to create an environment where the atmosphere feels like our residents personal home, for them and their respective visiting family members, which suits all of their individual needs.
Whether you are an experienced carer or are starting a career in care, we are looking for colleagues who can make a difference for our residents within Akari Care. In case you hadnt guessed, our values are:
Personalised
Kind
Caring
Trusted
CommunIty
If you share our values then we would love to hear from you.
About you
A caring nature to give everyone a personal approach,
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 starting at £13.50 to £14.50 per hour (Depending on Qualification)
Employer Pension contribution of 3%,
Recognition schemes and rewarding referral schemes,
We offer Wagestream - a money management app that you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it.
Uniform provided and DBS check costs paid,
28 days annual leave (based on full-time hours, including Bank Holidays),
Fully funded training and development,
Support with personal development plans
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
A caring nature, good communication and relationship-building skills, adaptability, a warm and engaging persona, and respect for others.
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
Stanley
DH9 8AD
Employer's website https://www.akaricare.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)