Job summary As a General Assistant at a Barchester care home, you'll carry out a range of tasks to help provide the quality care and support the residents deserve.
This wide-reaching role involves 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 The General Assistant role at Barchester Healthcare is responsible for a diverse range of tasks, including housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering.
You'll be expected to be reliable, compassionate, and caring, putting the residents first and building positive professional relationships with them.
The training provided will cover everything you need to thrive in this role, and you'll have the opportunity to take courses to further develop your skills.
About us Barchester Healthcare is a leading provider of high-quality care homes in the UK.
With a focus on creating a warm and welcoming environment for residents, the organization values its staff and offers a competitive rewards package, including free learning and development, profit share scheme, and various discounts.
Job description 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 schemeIf 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 Essential No specific qualifications are required for this role, as Barchester Healthcare will provide the necessary training.
However, the ideal candidate should have a can-do approach, people skills, and a desire to make a positive difference in the lives of the residents.