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. This wide-ranging role covers responsibilities across housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering, allowing you to play a part in creating a warm and homely environment for the residents.
Main duties of the job
In this General Assistant role, you'll be responsible for a variety of duties to support the smooth running of the care home. This includes tasks such as housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering. You'll need to be reliable, compassionate, and caring, with the ability to build positive relationships with the residents. The role also requires practical skills and a willingness to take on different tasks as needed. Barchester Healthcare will provide training to help you thrive in this position.
About us
Barchester Healthcare is a leading provider of care homes in the UK, dedicated to delivering high-quality care and support to their residents. They offer a range of benefits, including free training and development, access to wellbeing and support tools, and opportunities for career progression.
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 Employee of the Month' rewards and Long Service Awards'
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 Healthcare values life experiences and the right personal qualities, such as being reliable, compassionate, and caring. They will provide the necessary training to help you succeed in the 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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