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, contributing to creating a warm and homely environment. This is a wide-reaching role that requires a reliable, compassionate, and practical approach, with the opportunity to develop your skills further through training.
Main duties of the job
In this General Assistant role at a Barchester care home, you will be responsible for a variety of tasks to support the provision of quality care for residents. Your duties will cover areas such as housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering, ensuring the home maintains a warm and welcoming atmosphere. You will need to be a reliable, compassionate, and practical individual who is ready to make a difference in the lives of our residents. The role offers the chance to expand your skills through training and development opportunities.
About us
Barchester Healthcare is a leading provider of high-quality care homes in the UK. With a strong focus on delivering exceptional care and creating a nurturing environment for residents, the organization is committed to attracting and developing talented individuals who share its values. As a General Assistant at a Barchester care home, you will be an integral part of the team, contributing to the overall well-being and happiness of the residents.
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. The most important attributes are a reliable, compassionate, and practical approach, as well as a genuine desire to make a positive difference in the lives of our residents. Barchester will provide the necessary training to ensure you have the skills and knowledge to thrive in this role.
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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