General Assistant

NHS; Tewkesbury; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading care provider in the UK seeks a General Assistant to support quality care in a Tewkesbury care home. This diverse role includes housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering tasks. Applicants should be reliable, compassionate, and proactive. Barchester offers free training, a competitive rewards package, and support tools to help employees thrive. This position provides an opportunity to make a positive difference in the lives of residents, making it a fulfilling career choice.

Benefits

Free training and development

Access to wellbeing tools

Retail discounts

Refer a Friend bonus

Employee of the Month rewards

Long Service Awards

Qualifications

• No specific qualifications required; reliability and compassion important.
• Willingness to make a positive difference in residents' lives.
• Practical approach to completing tasks.

Responsibilities

• Carry out housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering tasks.
• Support the smooth running of the care home.
• Build positive relationships with residents.

Skills

Reliable

Compassionate

Caring

Practical

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 jobрать>

In this General Assistant role, 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 reliable, compassionate, and caring, with a practical approach to different tasks. Barchester will provide training to help you thrive in the role, and you'll have opportunities to develop your skills further through additional courses.

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. With a focus on creating a warm and welcoming environment, the organisation values its employees and provides a competitive rewards package, including free kontingent training and development, access to wellbeing tools, and employee recognition schemes.

Job responsibilities

ABOUT THE ROLE

As 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 YOU

People 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 quanto difference. You should Spur 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 PACKAGE

As 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 बच्चा
• 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 General Assistant role. Barchester values people from all walks of life and backgrounds, as long as they are reliable, compassionate, and willing to make a positive difference in the lives of 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.