General Assistant

NHS; Monifieth; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Scotland is seeking a General Assistant to support residents in a care home. The role includes housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering, requiring a reliable and compassionate individual who can build strong relationships with residents. No specific qualifications are necessary as training will be provided. This position offers a supportive environment and an opportunity to make a significant impact on residents' lives.

Benefits

Free training and development

Access to wellbeing and support tools

Retail discounts and savings

Refer a Friend bonus scheme

Employee of the Month rewards

Long Service Awards

Qualifications

• No specific qualifications required; training provided.
• Reliable, compassionate, and caring nature essential.
• Practical approach to diverse tasks required.

Responsibilities

• Carry out tasks in housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering.
• Build positive relationships with residents.
• Contribute to creating a warm and homely environment.

Skills

Reliability

Compassion

Practicality

People skills

Job description

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 responsibilities across housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering, allowing you to contribute to creating a warm and homely environment for the residents.

Main duties of the job

The General Assistant role involves diverse responsibilities across housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering. You'll be part of a team that puts the residents first and builds positive relationships with them to ensure their experience is happy and meaningful. The role requires reliability, compassion, and a practical approach to different tasks.

About us

Barchester Healthcare is a leading provider of residential and nursing care in the UK, operating over 200 care homes across the country. They are committed to delivering high-quality care and creating a warm, welcoming environment for their residents.

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 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
• Long Service Awards

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

• No specific qualifications are required for this role, as Barchester will provide the necessary training to help you thrive in the 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.