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General Assistant - Bank

Barchester Healthcare

The closing date is 20 May 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 the residents. This wide-ranging role involves diverse responsibilities across housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering, allowing you to contribute to creating a warm and homely environment. With your reliable, compassionate, and practical approach, you'll be a key part of the care home team, delivering meaningful experiences for the residents.

Main duties of the job

As a General Assistant, your duties will include a variety of housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering tasks to support the smooth running of the care home. You'll be expected to work flexibly and take on diverse responsibilities, always putting the residents' needs first. The training provided will ensure you have the skills and knowledge to thrive in this role, and there will be opportunities to develop your skills further through additional courses.

About us

Barchester Healthcare is a leading provider of high-quality care and support services in the UK. With a network of care homes and hospitals, they are committed to delivering exceptional care and creating a positive, inclusive environment for both residents and staff. Barchester values its employees and offers a comprehensive rewards package, including competitive salaries, profit-sharing schemes, and opportunities for professional development.

Date posted

22 March 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£13.38 an hour

Contract

Bank

Working pattern

Flexible working

Reference number

1265296055

Job locations

Barchester Healthcare

Horndean

PO8 0AJ


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 role, as full training will be provided. However, you should have a compassionate, reliable, and practical approach, with strong people skills to build positive relationships with the residents.
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • No specific qualifications are required for this role, as full training will be provided. However, you should have a compassionate, reliable, and practical approach, with strong people skills to build positive relationships with the residents.

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

Horndean

PO8 0AJ


Employer's website

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

Employer details

Employer name

Barchester Healthcare

Address

Barchester Healthcare

Horndean

PO8 0AJ


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

22 March 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£13.38 an hour

Contract

Bank

Working pattern

Flexible working

Reference number

1265296055

Job locations

Barchester Healthcare

Horndean

PO8 0AJ


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