Job summary 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, enabling you to contribute to creating a warm and homely environment.
This is a diverse role that requires reliability, compassion, and a willingness to take on different tasks.
Main duties of the job As a General Assistant, you will be responsible for a variety of tasks to support the overall operations of the care home.
This includes housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering duties.
You will be expected to work collaboratively with the team to ensure a clean, comfortable, and welcoming environment for the residents.
The role requires a practical, reliable, and empathetic approach, as you will be interacting directly with the residents and building positive relationships with them.
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.
As an employer, Barchester offers a range of benefits and development opportunities for its staff, recognizing the valuable contribution they make to the organization.
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.
Barchester provides comprehensive training to ensure that General Assistants have the necessary skills and knowledge to perform their duties effectively.