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General Assistant - Bank

Barchester Healthcare

The closing date is 10 January 2025

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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 responsibilities will span across 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 the residents and make their experience a happy and meaningful one.

Main duties of the job

As a General Assistant, you'll be responsible for a variety of tasks to support the smooth running of the care home. This includes housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering duties. You'll need to be practical, reliable, and caring, with the ability to adapt to different situations. The role offers opportunities for further development and training to enhance your skills.

About us

Barchester Healthcare is a leading provider of care homes in the UK, dedicated to delivering high-quality care and support to residents. With a focus on creating a warm and homely environment, the organisation places great importance on the contributions of its staff in making a positive difference to the lives of those in its care.

Date posted

12 November 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£11.94 an hour

Contract

Bank

Working pattern

Flexible working

Reference number

1189533303

Job locations

Barchester Healthcare

Wisbech

PE13 3EP


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, as Barchester Healthcare provides comprehensive training to help you succeed in the role. A caring, reliable, and practical approach is the most important attribute.
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • No specific qualifications are required, as Barchester Healthcare provides comprehensive training to help you succeed in the role. A caring, reliable, and practical approach is the most important attribute.

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

Wisbech

PE13 3EP


Employer's website

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

Employer details

Employer name

Barchester Healthcare

Address

Barchester Healthcare

Wisbech

PE13 3EP


Employer's website

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

For questions about the job, contact:

Recruitment Team

Barchester Healthcare

Recruitment@barchester.com

Date posted

12 November 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£11.94 an hour

Contract

Bank

Working pattern

Flexible working

Reference number

1189533303

Job locations

Barchester Healthcare

Wisbech

PE13 3EP


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