General Assistant - Bank

NHS; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

As a General Assistant at a leading care home, you will play a crucial role in providing quality care and support to residents. Your diverse responsibilities include housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering, contributing to a warm, friendly environment. The role focuses on compassion, reliability, and building meaningful connections with residents, backed by comprehensive training and career development opportunities.

Benefits

Free learning and development

Automatic enrolment into a profit share scheme

Holiday, retail, and leisure discounts

Refer a Friend bonus scheme

Qualifications

• No specific qualifications required; comprehensive training provided.
• Key attributes sought are reliability, compassion, and a practical approach.

Responsibilities

• Carry out tasks across housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering.
• Build positive professional relationships with residents.

Skills

Compassion

Reliability

Empathy

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 residents. This wide-reaching role involves responsibilities across housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering, allowing you to contribute to creating a warm and homely environment. With your reliable, compassionate, and practical approach, you'll put the residents first and build positive professional relationships.

Main duties of the job

The General Assistant role at Barchester Healthcare involves a diverse range of tasks to support the care and well-being of residents. Responsibilities include housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering duties. You'll be an integral part of the care home team, working to create a comfortable and nurturing environment for the residents. A key focus of the role is building meaningful connections with the residents and ensuring their experience is a positive one.

About us

Barchester Healthcare is a leading provider of high-quality care homes across the UK. The company is committed to delivering exceptional care and support to its residents, while also providing a rewarding and fulfilling work environment for its employees. With a strong focus on training and development, Barchester Healthcare offers excellent career progression opportunities.

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 equip General Assistants with the skills and knowledge needed to thrive in the role. The key attributes they are looking for are reliability, compassion, and 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.