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 responsibilities across housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering, allowing you to contribute to creating a warm and homely environment. You'll need to be reliable, compassionate, and ready to make a difference in the lives of the residents.
Main duties of the job
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 us
Barchester Healthcare is a leading provider of care homes in the UK, offering a range of services including residential, nursing, and dementia care. With a strong focus on person-centered care, Barchester aims to create a comfortable and supportive environment for its residents. The company is committed to investing in its staff, providing training and development opportunities to help them reach their full potential.
Job responsibilities
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 Package
As 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, as Barchester will provide the necessary training. A caring and empathetic nature, along with a practical and reliable approach, are the key qualities sought for 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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