Job summary
As an Admin Assistant at a Barchester care home, you'll carry out a range of responsibilities to help the organization deliver quality care and support for their residents. This varied role involves answering phones, handling files, supporting managers, meeting and greeting visitors, engaging with residents, and showing prospective clients and their families around the care home to showcase its unique features.
Main duties of the job
The Admin Assistant role at Barchester Healthcare requires strong multi-tasking abilities, good computer skills, and a confident telephone manner. It's also important to be a people person who can take a genuine interest in the residents and their families. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to develop their skills through training and development courses designed to build their confidence across all responsibilities.
Date posted
08 April 2025
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
£12.71 an hour
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time
Reference number
1277662181
Job locations
Barchester Healthcare, Torquay, TQ1 1RR
Job description
Job responsibilities
ABOUT THE ROLE As an Admin Assistant at a Barchester care home, you'll carry out a range of responsibilities to help us deliver the quality care and support our residents deserve. In this varied role, we'll need you to answer the phone, handle our files and support our managers. You'll also meet and greet visitors, engage with residents and show prospective clients and their families around so they can see what makes us so different. Across everything you do as an Admin Assistant here, you'll go out of your way to help us create a vibrant, happy environment.
ABOUT YOU If you have the ability to multi-task, good computer skills and a confident telephone manner you could be well-suited to the Admin Assistant role with us. It's also really important that you're a people person who will take a genuine interest in our residents and their families. If that sounds like you, we'll give you the opportunity to develop your skills with courses that have been designed to build your confidence across all your responsibilities.
REWARDS PACKAGE In return for your dedication, you'll receive a competitive rate of pay plus our sector-leading benefits and rewards package including: Free training and development for all roles, Access to wellbeing and support tools, A range of retail discounts and savings, Unlimited referrals with our 'Refer a Friend' bonus scheme, Employee of the Month rewards and Long Service Awards.
And so much more!
If you'd like to use your administration 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, but the ideal candidate should have excellent administrative and interpersonal skills, as well as a genuine interest in working with the elderly and providing exceptional customer service.
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, Torquay, TQ1 1RR
Employer's website
https://www.barchester.com/
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