Senior Care Assistant Apprenticeship at Benslow Management Company Ltd
INSPIRE ATA LIMITED
Hertfordshire (HP4 1PL)
Closes in 29 days (Friday 21 November 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 21 October 2025
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Summary
As a Senior Care Assistant, you will play a key leadership role in supporting the Home Manager and Deputy Manager in all aspects of home management and care delivery. You’ll be a role model for best practice, ensuring residents receive person-centred, compassionate care.
- Wage
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£16,848 a year
- Training course
- Lead adult care worker (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday, Saturday and Sunday 7.00pm - 7.00am (3 days a week)
36 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 24 November 2025
- Duration
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1 year 8 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
- Support the Home Manager and Deputy Manager in all operational aspects of the home, including taking full charge in their absence
- Supervise and actively participate in the delivery of high-quality care
- Lead on residents’ individual care documentation, ensuring a person-centred approach
- Provide training, supervision, and mentoring to junior care staff
- Administer medication safely and in accordance with company policy
- Promote residents’ dignity, independence, and choice at all times
- Maintain accurate records and uphold confidentiality
- Work collaboratively with staff, residents, families, and healthcare professionals
- Encourage residents’ participation in activities, supporting their emotional and intellectual wellbeing
- Support families with sensitivity and professionalism
- Induct, mentor, and support new care staff
- Provide effective supervision, identifying any training or support needs
- Monitor staff performance and report concerns appropriately
- Help maintain a positive, team-focused environment
- Adhere to all company policies, procedures, and Health & Safety regulations
- Participate in staff meetings and mandatory training
- Ensure accurate record-keeping and compliance with all legislative requirements
- Respond effectively to emergencies such as accidents, fire, or missing residents
- Maintain security and report maintenance issues promptly
What We’re Looking For:
- Minimum Level 2 qualification in Health and Social Care (Essential)
- At least 2 years’ experience as a Care Assistant or Senior Care
- Assistant within an older persons’ care setting
- Strong leadership, communication, and organisational skills
- Compassionate, reliable, and dedicated to providing person-centred care
- Ability to work effectively as part of a team and on your own initiative
Where you'll work
Robin Hood House
Nettleden Road Little Gaddesden
Hertfordshire
HP4 1PL
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
DYNAMIC TRAINING UK LIMITED
Training course
Lead adult care worker (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Support individuals they are working with according to their personal care/support plan
- Take the initiative when working outside normal duties and responsibilities
- Recognise and access help when not confident or skilled in any aspect of the role that they are undertaking
- Implement/facilitate the specialist assessment of social, physical, emotional and spiritual needs of individuals with cognitive, sensory and physical impairments
- Contribute to the development and ongoing review of care/support plans for the individuals they support
- Provide individuals with information to enable them to exercise choice on how they are supported
- Encourage individuals to actively participate in the way their care and support is delivered
- Ensure that individuals know what they are agreeing to regarding the way in which they are supported
- Lead and support colleagues to understand how to establish informed consent when providing care and support
- Guide, mentor and contribute to the development of colleagues in the execution of their duties and responsibilities
- Demonstrate dignity in their working role with individuals they support, their families, carers and other professionals
- Support others to understand the importance of equality, diversity and inclusion in social care
- Exhibit empathy for individuals they support, i.e. understanding and compassion
- Exhibit courage in supporting individuals in ways that may challenge their own cultural and belief systems
- Demonstrate and promote to other workers excellent communication skills including confirmation of understanding to individuals, their families, carers and professionals
- Use and facilitate methods of communication preferred by the individual they support according to the individual’s language, cultural and sensory needs, wishes and preferences
- Take the initiative and reduce environmental barriers to communication
- Demonstrate and ensure that records and reports are written clearly and concisely
- Lead and support others to keep information safe, preserve confidentiality in accordance with agreed ways of working
- Support others, to recognise and respond to potential signs of abuse according to agreed ways of working
- Work in partnership with external agencies to respond to concerns of abuse
- Lead and support others to address conflicts or dilemmas that may arise between an individual’s rights and duty of care
- Recognise, report, respond to and record unsafe practices and encourage others to do so
- Lead and mentor others where appropriate to promote the wellbeing of the individuals they support
- Demonstrate the management of the reduction of infection, including use of best practice in hand hygiene
- Promote healthy eating and wellbeing by supporting individuals to have access to fluids, food and nutrition
- Carry out fire safety procedures and manage others to do so
- Develop risk assessments and use in a person centred way to support individuals safely including moving and assisting people and objects
- Manage, monitor, report and respond to changes in the health and wellbeing of the individuals they support
- Take the initiative to identify and form professional relationships with other people and organisations
- Demonstrate, manage and support self and others to work within safe, clear professional boundaries
- Take the initiative to evaluate and improve own skills and knowledge through reflective practice, supervision, feedback and learning opportunities
- Demonstrate continuous professional development
- Carry out research relevant to individuals’ support needs and share with others
- Demonstrate where necessary mentoring and supervision to others in the workplace
- Demonstrate good team/partnership working skills
- Demonstrate their contribution to robust recruitment and induction processes
Training schedule
The successful candidate will obtain a Level 3 Adult Care Worker Apprenticeship qualification
More training information
- Each apprentice will have their own dedicated tutor who will conduct monthly remote tutorials and reviews, providing continuous support throughout the apprenticeship program
- Depending on the apprentice’s needs, the frequency of these sessions may vary
Requirements
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Caring
- Strong leadership
Other requirements
Pre-employment checks. Please be aware that upon a successful offer of employment, the company completes digitalised right-to-work checks and DBS applications via an external provider - 'Matrix Screening'. The company also completes an internal online social media search, in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance.
About this employer
Inspire ATA is an official Flexi-Job Apprenticeship Agency, licenced by the Department for Education. Currently ranked 1st in the Rate My Apprenticeship Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers in the UK Award 2024-2025. Inspire ATA specialises in creating apprenticeship opportunities, where we recruit and employ the apprentice on behalf of our host clients, enabling us to offer additional support and a better experience for both the apprentice and the client as the experts in the industry. We arrange the most suitable and appropriate apprenticeship training from one of our partnered training providers. If you are successful in securing an apprenticeship with Inspire ATA, it is important to understand that Inspire ATA will be your employer and the apprenticeship placement will be a separate organisation that simply hosts you as an apprentice. As a Flexi-Job Apprenticeship Agency, Inspire ATA performs an important role in developing the UK labour market and it is our responsibility to ensure that talent is recognised, developed, and matched with business needs, whatever the background of the individual, irrespective of gender, race, disability, age, religion or belief, relationship orientation, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity and gender reassignment. We are proud of the diverse nature of our business and work with clients to ensure that all candidates are treated with courtesy and respect.
After this apprenticeship
- Potential full-time employment for the right candidate upon successful completion of the apprenticeship
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
INSPIRE ATA LIMITED
Katie Munn
Katie@inspire-ata.co.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000347464.
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Closes in 29 days (Friday 21 November 2025 at 11:59pm)
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