As a General Assistant at a Barchester care home, you'll carry out a range of tasks to help provide quality care and support for residents. Your responsibilities will span across housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering, allowing you to play a vital role in creating a warm and homely environment. With your reliable, compassionate, and caring approach, you'll build positive relationships with the residents and ensure their experience with the care home is a happy and meaningful one.
Main duties of the job
The General Assistant role at Barchester Healthcare involves a diverse range of responsibilities to support the overall operation of the care home. This includes tasks related to housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering. You'll be expected to be practical, adaptable, and willing to take on different tasks as required. The role requires a caring and empathetic approach, as you'll be interacting directly with residents and building meaningful relationships with them.
About us
Barchester Healthcare is a leading provider of care homes in the UK, delivering high-quality care and support to residents. With a focus on creating a warm and welcoming environment, the organisation is committed to ensuring the best possible experience for those in its care. Barchester Healthcare values its employees and offers a range of benefits, including competitive salaries, training and development opportunities, and a supportive work culture.
Job responsibilities
ABOUT THE ROLEAs a General Assistant at a Barchester care home, you'll carry out a range of tasks to help us provide the quality care and support our residents deserve. No two days will be the same as you take on diverse responsibilities across housekeeping, cleaning, laundry and catering. It's because this is such a wide-reaching role that you'll be able to play your own part in creating a warm and homely environment. Caring and empathetic, as a General Assistant you'll put our residents first and build the kind of positive professional relationships with them that make their experience with us happy and meaningful.
ABOUT YOUPeople in a General Assistant role come from all walks of life and have all kinds of life experiences and career paths behind them. You'll be a big part of our home so what matters is that you're reliable, compassionate, caring and always ready to make a difference. You should be practical too, happy to turn your hand to different tasks. If you have all of this, our training will cover everything else you need to thrive. You'll also have the opportunity to take courses that will develop your skills even further.
REWARDS PACKAGEAs well as a competitive salary, Barchester offers one of the best rewards packages in the care sector. Your generous benefits would include:
Free training and development for all roles Access to wellbeing and support tools A range of retail discounts and savings Unlimited referrals with our Refer a Friend' bonus scheme
If you'd like to use your can-do approach and people skills in an organisation that provides the quality care you'd expect for your loved ones, this is a rewarding place to be.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* No specific qualifications are required for the General Assistant role, as Barchester Healthcare provides comprehensive training to equip you with the necessary skills. However, a caring, reliable, and practical approach is essential, as is the ability to work well as part of a team.
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.
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