General Assistant - Bank

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

Job summary

Join Barchester Healthcare as a General Assistant, contributing to quality care in a warm, supportive environment. Responsibilities include diverse tasks in housekeeping and catering, requiring compassion and reliability. With comprehensive training opportunities, you'll thrive in making a positive difference to residents' lives.

Benefits

Free training and development

Access to wellbeing and support tools

Retail discounts and savings

Unlimited referrals with bonus scheme

Qualifications

• No specific qualifications are required.
• Willingness to learn and develop skills.

Responsibilities

• Carry out tasks across housekeeping, cleaning, laundry and catering.
• Put residents first and build positive relationships.

Skills

Reliability

Compassion

Caring 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 for the residents. This wide-reaching role involves responsibilities across housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering, allowing you to contribute to creating a warm and homely environment. The role requires a reliable, compassionate, and caring approach, with the opportunity to develop your skills further through training and development.

Main duties of the job

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 us

Barchester Healthcare is a leading provider of care homes in the UK, dedicated to delivering high-quality care and support to their residents. The company operates over 200 care homes across the country, employing a team of passionate and experienced professionals who are committed to making a positive difference in the lives of those they care for.

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 training and development for all roles Access to wellbeing and support tools A range of retail discounts and savings Unlimited referrals with 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 for this role, as Barchester Healthcare provides comprehensive training and development opportunities to help you thrive in the role. The key attributes they are looking for are a reliable, compassionate, and caring approach, with a willingness to learn and develop your skills further.

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.