General Assistant - Bank

Barchester Healthcare

The closing date is 16 November 2024

Job summary

The General Assistant role at Barchester Healthcare's care home in Rugby involves a wide range of responsibilities across housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering. The role requires a reliable, compassionate, and caring individual who is ready to make a difference in the lives of the residents. Barchester offers a competitive salary and an excellent rewards package, including free learning and development opportunities, profit-sharing, and various discounts.

Main duties of the job

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. Your responsibilities will be diverse, spanning housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering. It's a varied role that will allow you to contribute to creating a warm and homely environment for the residents. You'll need to be reliable, compassionate, and caring, with a practical approach to different tasks. Barchester will provide training to ensure you have the necessary skills to thrive in this role.

About us

Barchester Healthcare is a leading provider of high-quality care and support services in the UK. They operate a network of care homes and other healthcare facilities, committed to delivering exceptional care and creating a positive, enriching experience for their residents. Barchester values its employees and offers a range of benefits to support their personal and professional development.

Date posted

22 September 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£11.84 an hour

Contract

Bank

Working pattern

Flexible working

Reference number

1151669143

Job locations

Barchester Healthcare

Rugby

CV22 6DY


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 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.

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 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 General Assistant role. Barchester is looking for individuals with the right personal qualities, such as reliability, compassion, and a caring nature. They will provide the necessary training to ensure you have the skills to excel in this position.
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • No specific qualifications are required for this General Assistant role. Barchester is looking for individuals with the right personal qualities, such as reliability, compassion, and a caring nature. They will provide the necessary training to ensure you have the skills to excel in this position.

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

Rugby

CV22 6DY


Employer's website

https://www.barchester.com/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Barchester Healthcare

Address

Barchester Healthcare

Rugby

CV22 6DY


Employer's website

https://www.barchester.com/ (Opens in a new tab)

For questions about the job, contact:

HR Manager

Barchester Healthcare

Recruitment@barchester.com

Date posted

22 September 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£11.84 an hour

Contract

Bank

Working pattern

Flexible working

Reference number

1151669143

Job locations

Barchester Healthcare

Rugby

CV22 6DY


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