General Assistant - Bank

Integrated Care System; Guildford; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading care provider in the UK is looking for a reliable and compassionate General Assistant to help create a nurturing environment for residents. This diverse role involves various tasks such as housekeeping, cleaning, and catering. Training is provided, and the position offers a competitive salary with a comprehensive rewards package.

Benefits

Free learning and development

Profit share scheme

Holiday, retail, and leisure discounts

Refer a Friend bonus scheme

Qualifications

• No specific qualifications required; Barchester provides training.
• Caring, compassionate, and reliable approach is key.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Reliability

Compassion

Practical skills

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 create a warm and homely environment for the residents. This is a diverse role that requires reliability, compassion, and a desire to make a difference in the lives of the people you support.

Main duties of the job

As a General Assistant, you'll be responsible for a variety of tasks to support the overall operation of the care home. This includes housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering duties. You'll work to create a comfortable and welcoming environment for the residents, building positive relationships with them and ensuring their experience is a happy and meaningful one. The role requires practical skills, as well as a caring and empathetic approach.

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, with a focus on creating a warm and nurturing environment. The organisation offers competitive salaries, a comprehensive benefits package, and opportunities for professional development.

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 for this role. Barchester Healthcare provides comprehensive training to ensure you have the necessary skills and knowledge to succeed in the role. A caring, compassionate, and reliable approach is more important than formal qualifications.

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.