General Assistant - Bank

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

Job summary

A leading care home provider in the UK seeks a General Assistant to aid in delivering quality care to residents. No prior experience is necessary as full training will be provided. Ideal candidates are reliable and compassionate, with responsibilities spanning various tasks from housekeeping to catering.

Benefits

Free learning and development

Profit share scheme

Holiday, retail, and leisure discounts

Refer a Friend bonus scheme

Qualifications

• No specific qualifications required.
• Looking for individuals who are reliable, compassionate, and practical.

Responsibilities

• Assisting with housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering tasks.
• Creating a warm and homely environment for residents.

Skills

Compassion

Reliability

Practicality

Caring

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. You'll be responsible for diverse responsibilities across housekeeping, cleaning, laundry and catering, contributing to creating a warm and homely environment for the residents.

Main duties of the job

In this General Assistant role, you'll be responsible for a wide range of tasks, including housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering. You'll need to be reliable, compassionate, caring, and practical, able to turn your hand to different tasks. The role requires no previous experience, as Barchester will provide the necessary training to help you thrive in the role.

About us

Barchester Healthcare is a leading provider of care homes in the UK, committed to delivering high-quality care and support to their residents. They offer a competitive salary and an excellent rewards package, including free learning and development opportunities, profit-sharing, and a range of holiday, retail, and leisure discounts.

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 for this role. Barchester is looking for individuals who are reliable, compassionate, caring, and practical, with the ability to take on diverse responsibilities.

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.