General Assistant - Bank

Barchester Healthcare; Dumfries; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking care organization as a General Assistant, where your compassionate nature and practical skills will shine. This role offers a unique opportunity to engage in diverse responsibilities across housekeeping, laundry, and catering, ensuring our residents receive the quality care they deserve. With a focus on building positive relationships, you'll help create a warm and homely environment. Enjoy a rewarding career with a competitive salary and one of the best rewards packages in the care sector, including free learning and development opportunities and a profit share scheme. Your contributions will make a real difference in the lives of those we care for.

Benefits

Free learning and development

Profit share scheme

Holiday, retail and leisure discounts

Refer a Friend bonus scheme

Qualifications

• Reliable and compassionate individual ready to make a difference.
• Practical skills to handle diverse tasks in a care environment.

Responsibilities

• Support housekeeping, laundry, and kitchen teams in daily tasks.
• Build positive relationships with residents for a meaningful experience.

Skills

Compassionate care

Reliability

Practical skills

Education

No specific educational qualifications required

Job description

ABOUT THE ROLE

This role will be covering the Housekeeping, Laundry and Kitchen team

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 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 PACKAGE
As well as a competitive salary, Barchester offers one of the best rewards packages in the care sector. Your generous benefits would include:

1. Free learning and development
2. Automatic enrolment into our profit share scheme
3. A range of holiday, retail and leisure discounts
4. 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.