General Assistant - Bank

NHS; East Hampshire; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading care provider is seeking a General Assistant for their care home. In this diverse role, you will contribute to housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering. If you are compassionate, reliable, and eager to learn, this opportunity is perfect for you, offering great rewards and development potential.

Benefits

Free learning and development

Profit share scheme enrolment

Holiday, retail, and leisure discounts

Refer a Friend bonus scheme

Qualifications

• No specific qualifications required, but a can-do attitude is essential.
• Good people skills and a willingness to learn and develop.

Responsibilities

• Carry out a range of tasks including housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering.
• Create a warm and homely environment for residents.
• Build positive professional relationships with residents.

Skills

Compassion

Reliability

Practical Skills

People Skills

Job description

As a General Assistant at a Barchester care home, you'll carry out a range of tasks to help provide the quality care and support the residents deserve. You'll be responsible for diverse responsibilities across housekeeping, cleaning, laundry and catering, and play a role in creating a warm and homely environment for the residents.

Main duties of the job

The General Assistant role involves a wide range of responsibilities, including housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering. You'll need to be reliable, compassionate, and caring, with a practical approach to different tasks. The role provides the opportunity to develop your skills further through training and development.

About us

Barchester Healthcare is a leading provider of high-quality care homes across the UK. They are committed to delivering exceptional care and support to their residents, and creating a warm and welcoming environment for them.

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, but you should have a can-do attitude, good people skills, and a willingness to learn and develop.

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.