General Assistant - Bank

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

Job summary

Join a leading care provider as a General Assistant and play a crucial role in delivering quality care. With no specific qualifications required, your compassion and reliability will help create a warm and supportive environment for residents. Enjoy a variety of tasks and competitive benefits including learning and development opportunities.

Benefits

Free learning and development

Profit share scheme

Holiday, retail and leisure discounts

Refer a Friend bonus scheme

Qualifications

• No specific qualifications required.
• Practical skills are important.

Responsibilities

• Diverse responsibilities across housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering.
• Build positive relationships with residents.

Skills

Reliability

Compassion

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 for the residents. Your responsibilities will include housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering. You'll be part of creating a warm and homely environment for the residents, and building positive relationships with them.

Main duties of the job

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 high-quality care homes and specialist services across the UK. They are committed to delivering the best possible care and support to their residents, and creating a welcoming and comfortable environment for them.

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. You'll need to be reliable, compassionate, caring and always ready to make a difference. Practical skills and the ability to turn your hand to different tasks are also important.

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.