General Assistant - Bank

NHS; Gateshead; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading care home provider in the UK is seeking a General Assistant to support daily operations. You will play a crucial role in housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering, creating a nurturing environment for residents. This role offers comprehensive training and opportunities for personal development. Ideal candidates are compassionate and reliable individuals committed to making a difference in residents' lives.

Benefits

Free learning and development

Profit share scheme

Holiday, retail and leisure discounts

Refer a Friend bonus scheme

Qualifications

• No specific qualifications are required, comprehensive training provided.
• Key attributes include reliability, compassion, caring, and practical can-do approach.

Responsibilities

• Duties include housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering.
• Build positive relationships with residents to enhance their experience.

Skills

Compassionate

Reliable

Caring

Practical approach

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 to 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 diverse responsibilities across housekeeping, cleaning, laundry and catering. You'll be a reliable, compassionate, and caring individual who is always ready to make a difference. Barchester Healthcare will provide training to help you thrive in this role, and you'll have the opportunity to develop your skills further through additional courses.

About us

Barchester Healthcare is a leading provider of care homes in the UK, delivering high-quality care and support to residents. The organisation is committed to creating a warm and nurturing environment for its residents, and the General Assistant role is crucial in achieving this goal.

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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• No specific qualifications are required, as Barchester Healthcare provides comprehensive training. The key attributes for this role are being reliable, compassionate, caring, and having a practical, can-do approach.

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.