General Assistant

Barchester Healthcare; Stamford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider seeks a General Assistant at their care home in Stamford, UK. The role involves various tasks such as housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering, aiming to create a positive environment for residents. Ideal candidates are reliable, compassionate, and ready to support the team. Barchester offers competitive salary and an excellent rewards package, including free training and profit share scheme. This position allows for personal growth while making a difference in residents' lives.

Benefits

Free learning and development

Profit share scheme

Holiday, retail and leisure discounts

Refer a Friend bonus scheme

Qualifications

• Reliable and compassionate individual with a caring attitude.
• Ability to handle diverse tasks including housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Caring

Compassionate

Reliability

Job description

ABOUT THE ROLE

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 YOU

People 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 PACKAGE

As 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.