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Senior Care Assistant - Bank

Akari Care Limited

Wallsend, NE28 7LHView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)

Salary

£13.50 to £14.50

Contract

Bank

Hours

Not specified

Closing date

30 November 2026

42 days left

Job description

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 e...

Working as a Senior Care Assistant at Akari Care involves being part of a supportive community, providing high-quality care to residents. Responsibilities include observation, care planning, designing social activities, and training newer staff, alongside regular care assistant duties. Suitable candidates will have a caring nature, strong communication skills, adaptability, and a respectful, engaging personality. Akari Care emphasizes values like being personalised, kind, caring, trusted, and community-oriented. Employees can access benefits such as competitive salary, pension contributions, recognition programs, wage stream app, fully funded training, and more.

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.

  • 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.

  • A competitive salary
  • 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:

  • Personalised
  • Kind
  • Caring
  • Trusted
  • Community

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

Akari Care is an organisation committed to providing high-quality, personalised care for residents within their homes. They aim to create an environment where residents feel comfortable and at home, with a focus on individual needs and preferences. Akari Care values its staff, offering numerous benefits such as competitive salaries, pension contributions, recognition schemes, and development opportunities. They adhere to core values that include being personalised, kind, caring, trusted, and focused on community. Akari Care strives to support and develop its employees while ensuring that residents receive excellent care.

Qualifications

Essential

  • A caring nature, good communication skills, flexibility, and a warm, approachable personality. Respectful treatment of others and a personal approach to care.

How to apply

Applications are handled entirely by the employer on the original advert. We do not collect CVs, supporting statements or application data.

Provenance

Source

NHS Jobs

First seen

1 October 2026

Last checked

5 October 2026

Salary, closing date and description are taken from the employer's advert. The original advert always takes precedence.

About the employer

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Akari Care Limited

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