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-reaching role involves diverse responsibilities across housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering, allowing you to play a part in creating a warm and homely environment. With your reliable, compassionate, and caring approach, you'll build positive relationships with the residents and make their experience a happy and meaningful one.
Main duties of the job
As a General Assistant, your duties will include a variety of tasks in the areas of housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering. You'll be responsible for maintaining a clean, organized, and comfortable living environment for the residents, as well as supporting the catering team in providing meals and refreshments. Your practical skills and willingness to take on different tasks will be essential in this role.
About us
Barchester Healthcare is a leading provider of high-quality care and support services in the UK. With a network of care homes and other healthcare facilities, Barchester is dedicated to delivering person-centered care that promotes the wellbeing and independence of its residents. The organization values its employees and offers a competitive rewards package, as well as opportunities for professional development and career advancement.
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.
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Person Specification
Qualifications
* There are no specific qualifications required for this role, as Barchester provides comprehensive training to ensure you have the skills and knowledge necessary to thrive as a General Assistant. What's most important is that you have a caring, reliable, and practical approach, with the ability to work well with others and put the residents' needs first.
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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