Admin Assistant - Care Home

Integrated Care System; Deeping St James; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading care provider is seeking an Admin Assistant for their care home in Deeping St James. The role involves supporting care home managers, engaging with residents, and managing administrative tasks to enhance resident care. Candidates should possess multitasking abilities, good computer skills, and a welcoming demeanor, contributing to a vibrant environment while enjoying comprehensive training and development opportunities.

Benefits

Free training and development

Access to wellbeing and support tools

Retail discounts

Refer a Friend bonus scheme

Employee of the Month rewards

Long Service Awards

Qualifications

• Ability to multi-task.
• Good computer skills.
• Confident telephone manner.
• Genuine interest in residents and families.

Responsibilities

• Answering the phone and handling files.
• Supporting managers and engaging with residents.
• Meeting and greeting visitors, and conducting tours for prospective clients.

Skills

Multi-tasking

Computer skills

Telephone manner

Interpersonal skills

Job description

As an Admin Assistant at a Barchester care home, you'll carry out a range of responsibilities to help deliver quality care and support for the residents. This varied role involves answering the phone, handling files, supporting managers, meeting and greeting visitors, engaging with residents, and showing prospective clients and their families around the care home.

Main duties of the job

The Admin Assistant role at Barchester Healthcare's care home in Deeping St James involves a wide range of administrative tasks. You'll be responsible for answering the phone, managing files, and providing support to the care home managers. Additionally, you'll meet and greet visitors, interact with residents, and give tours to prospective clients and their families. The goal is to create a vibrant, happy environment for everyone at the care home.

About us

Barchester Healthcare is a leading provider of care homes in the UK. They are committed to delivering high-quality care and support to their residents, and the Admin Assistant role is crucial in ensuring the smooth running of their care homes. Barchester Healthcare offers a range of benefits and rewards to their employees, including free training and development, access to wellbeing and support tools, and a competitive rate of pay.

Job responsibilities

ABOUT THE ROLEAs 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 YOUIf 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 you'll 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 PACKAGEIn 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

• To be successful in this role, you should have the ability to multi-task, good computer skills, and a confident telephone manner. It's also important that you're a people person, as you'll be interacting with residents, their families, and visitors on a regular basis.

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.