Senior Care Assistant

Akari Care is seeking experienced Senior Care Assistants to join their supportive and inclusive community within their homes. As a Senior Care Assistant, you will be responsible for delivering the highest quality levels of care to the residents, observing and reviewing care planning needs, assisting with social activities, and supporting the training and supervision of junior colleagues.

The Senior Care Assistant role involves delivering personalized, kind, and caring support to the residents, building trusted relationships, and fostering a sense of community. You will be responsible for observing, reviewing, and finalizing care planning needs, assisting with and producing ideas for social activities, and supporting the training and supervision of junior and new colleagues. Akari Care values a caring nature, good communication and relationship-building skills, flexibility, and an approachable and engaging persona.

Akari Care is a provider of high-quality residential and nursing care for elderly individuals. The company is committed to creating a warm, welcoming, and inclusive environment where residents feel ri Care values personalization, kindness, care, trust, and a strong sense of community.

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 producing 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 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 is in it for you:

• 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

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 had not guessed, our values are:

• Kind
• Caring
• Community

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

• Experienced Senior Care Assistants or Care Assistants looking to progress in their career are encouraged to apply. The role requires a caring nature, good communication skills, flexibility, and a warm, approachable, and engaging persona.

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.