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 residents. Your diverse responsibilities will cover areas like housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering, allowing you to play a vital role in creating a warm and homely environment. With your reliable, compassionate, and caring approach, you'll build positive relationships with residents and make a real difference to their daily lives.
Main Duties of the Job
As a General Assistant, you'll be responsible for a wide range of tasks across the care home, including housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering. You'll need to be a practical and adaptable individual, willing to turn your hand to different duties as required. The role requires excellent people skills, as you'll be interacting with residents on a daily basis and building meaningful relationships with them. Barchester will provide comprehensive training to ensure you have the skills and knowledge to thrive in this role.
About Us
Barchester Healthcare is a leading provider of high-quality care homes across the UK. With a strong focus on delivering person-centred care, the organisation is committed to creating a warm and welcoming environment for residents. Barchester invests heavily in the development and well-being of its staff, offering a range of training opportunities and a competitive benefits package.
Date Posted: 09 April 2025
Pay Scheme: Other
Salary: £12.71 an hour
Contract: Permanent
Working Pattern: Full-time, Part-time
Reference Number: 1278386499
Job Locations: Barchester Healthcare, Ashington, NE63 9AN
Job Responsibilities
As 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 You
People 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 Essential
* No specific qualifications are required for this role, as Barchester will provide comprehensive training. However, experience in a similar care or customer service environment would be advantageous. The most important attributes are a caring, compassionate, and reliable personality, along with a willingness to learn and develop your skills.
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.
Employer Details
Employer Name: Barchester Healthcare
Address: Barchester Healthcare, Ashington, NE63 9AN
Employer's Website: https://www.barchester.com/
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