General Assistant - Bank

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

Job summary

An established industry player in the healthcare sector is looking for a General Assistant to join their team. In this diverse role, you will engage in various tasks such as housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering, all aimed at providing quality care for residents. Your compassionate and reliable nature will help you build meaningful relationships with those you assist. With comprehensive training opportunities and a commitment to staff development, this position offers a fulfilling chance to make a real difference in people's lives while enjoying a competitive rewards package. If you are ready to contribute to a caring environment, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

Free learning and development

Profit share scheme

Holiday discounts

Refer a Friend bonus scheme

Qualifications

• Reliable and compassionate approach to care.
• Ability to build positive relationships with residents.

Responsibilities

• Support housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering tasks.
• Create a warm and homely environment for residents.

Skills

Compassionate Care

Reliability

Practical Skills

Communication Skills

Education

No specific qualifications required

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. The job requires a reliable, compassionate, and caring approach, with the opportunity to develop your skills further through training and courses.

Main duties of the job

The General Assistant role at Barchester Healthcare involves diverse responsibilities across housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering to support the provision of quality care for residents. The role requires a reliable, compassionate, and caring approach, with the ability to build positive relationships with residents. Barchester Healthcare offers a competitive salary, free learning and development opportunities, and a range of other attractive benefits.

About us

Barchester Healthcare is a leading provider of high-quality care and support services across the UK. The company operates care homes and other healthcare facilities, with a focus on delivering exceptional care and creating a warm, homely environment for residents. Barchester Healthcare is committed to investing in its staff, providing opportunities for training and development, and offering a competitive rewards package.

Job responsibilities

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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• No specific qualifications are required for the General Assistant role. Barchester Healthcare provides comprehensive training to ensure that successful candidates have the skills and knowledge needed to thrive in the position.

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.