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 the residents. Your responsibilities will span across housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering, allowing you to play a key role in creating a warm and homely environment. Caring and empathetic, you'll build positive relationships with the residents to ensure their experience with us is happy and meaningful.
Main duties of the job
In this General Assistant role, you'll be responsible for a diverse range of tasks to support the smooth running of the care home. Your duties may include housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering. You'll need to be reliable, compassionate, and always ready to make a difference. The role requires practical skills and the ability to adapt to different tasks. Barchester will provide comprehensive training to help you thrive in this position.
About us
Barchester Healthcare is a leading provider of care homes in the UK, committed to delivering high-quality care and support to their residents. With a strong focus on creating a warm, homely environment, Barchester aims to empower their staff to make a meaningful difference in the lives of those they care for.
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 learning and development Automatic enrolment into our profit share scheme A range of holiday, retail and leisure discounts Unlimited access to 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 this General Assistant role. Barchester values life experiences and practical skills over formal qualifications, as long as you have a caring, empathetic, and reliable nature.
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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