Admin Assistant - Care Home

NHS; Wallingford; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

Barchester Healthcare is seeking an Admin Assistant to help deliver quality care in their care home. This role involves multi-tasking administrative duties while engaging with residents and their families. The ideal candidate will possess strong interpersonal skills and computer proficiency, suited to creating a vibrant environment.

Benefits

Free training and development

Access to wellbeing and support tools

Retail discounts and savings

Unlimited referrals with 'Refer a Friend' bonus scheme

Employee of the Month rewards

Long Service Awards

Qualifications

• Strong administrative and interpersonal skills essential.

Responsibilities

• Answer phones and handle files.
• Support managers and meet/greet visitors.
• Engage with residents and show prospective clients around.

Skills

Good computer skills

Confident 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. Your role will involve answering phones, handling files, supporting managers, meeting and greeting visitors, engaging with residents, and showing prospective clients around the care home.

Main duties of the job

In this varied role, you'll be required to multi-task, have good computer skills, and a confident telephone manner. It's essential that you're a people person who can take a genuine interest in the residents and their families. Barchester Healthcare will provide you with opportunities to develop your skills through training and development courses designed to build your confidence across all your responsibilities.

About us

Barchester Healthcare is a leading provider of care homes in the UK, committed to delivering high-quality care and support to its residents. The company has a strong focus on creating a vibrant and happy environment for both residents and staff.

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

• No specific qualifications are required, but strong administrative and interpersonal skills are essential.

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.