General Assistant - Bank

NHS; Blackpool; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a compassionate General Assistant to join their team. In this hands-on role, you will support residents through various tasks such as housekeeping, cleaning, and catering, ensuring a warm and homely environment. Your empathetic nature and practical skills will help you build meaningful relationships with residents, making their experience truly special. With comprehensive training and a commitment to staff development, this organization offers a rewarding career path in the care sector, where your contributions will make a real difference in people's lives.

Benefits

Free learning and development

Profit-sharing scheme

Holiday discounts

Retail discounts

Leisure discounts

Refer a Friend bonus scheme

Qualifications

• Caring and reliable nature with the ability to adapt to different tasks.
• No specific qualifications required; training provided.

Responsibilities

• Carry out housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering tasks.
• Build positive relationships with residents to enhance their experience.

Skills

Empathy

Reliability

Practical Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Education

No specific qualifications required

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. Your responsibilities will span 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 a diverse range of responsibilities, ensuring the smooth running of the care home. You'll be responsible for tasks such as housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering, all with the aim of providing the best possible care and support for the residents. This is a hands-on role that requires a practical and empathetic approach, as you'll be building positive relationships with the residents.

About us

Barchester Healthcare is a leading provider of care homes in the UK, dedicated to delivering high-quality care and support to its residents. The company values its staff and offers a range of benefits, including free learning and development opportunities, a profit-sharing scheme, and discounts on various products and services.

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.

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Person Specification

Qualifications

• No specific qualifications are required for this role, as Barchester Healthcare provides comprehensive training to help you thrive in the position. What's most important is that you have a caring and reliable nature, with the ability to adapt to different tasks and put the residents' needs first.

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.