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Senior care assistant (days)

Gateshead
NHS
Care assistant
Posted: 9 October
Offer description

Job summary: This is a Senior Care Assistant role within Akari Care, a company that provides high-quality care to residents in their homes. The role involves delivering personalised, kind, and trusted care to residents, observing and reviewing care plans, supporting social activities, and mentoring junior colleagues.

Main duties of the job: As a Senior Care Assistant, you will be responsible for delivering the highest quality levels of care to our residents. This includes observing, 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.

About us: Akari Care is a care provider that operates care homes across the UK. They aim to create a warm, inclusive, and supportive environment for their residents, with a focus on personalised care and community engagement.


Job Responsibilities

Package Description: *** Applicants must hold a relevant NVQ LV2 or LV3 to be considered *** 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 includes observing, 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.


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.


What's in it for You

A competitive salary starting at £13.50 per hour up to £14.50 per hour (Depending on Qualification)

Employer Pension contribution of 3%,

Recognition schemes and rewarding referral schemes,

We offer Wage stream - 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


Our Values

* Personalised
* Kind
* Caring
* Trusted
* Community

If you share our values then we would love to hear from you.


Person Specification Qualifications Essential

* Applicants must hold a relevant NVQ Level 2 or Level 3 qualification to be considered for this role.


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.


UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.

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