General Assistant - Bank

NHS; Pennsylvania; On-site; USD 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading care home in Pennsylvania is seeking a General Assistant to support residents and ensure a high-quality care environment. This role involves diverse responsibilities including housekeeping, laundry, and catering. Ideal candidates will be compassionate, reliable, and willing to assist with various tasks. The position offers training and opportunities for personal development.

Benefits

Free learning and development

Profit share scheme

Holiday, retail and leisure discounts

Refer a Friend bonus scheme

Qualifications

• Can-do attitude and good people skills.
• No specific qualifications required.
• Ability to turn your hand to different tasks.

Responsibilities

• Support the smooth running of the care home through housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering.
• Build positive professional relationships with residents.
• Participate in creating a warm and homely environment.

Skills

Compassion

Reliability

Practical skills

Good people skills

Job description

As a General Assistant at a Barchester care home, you'll carry out a range of tasks to help 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. Caring and empathetic, you'll put our residents first and build positive professional relationships with them.

Main duties of the job

In this General Assistant role, you'll be responsible for a wide range of tasks to support the smooth running of the care home. This includes duties in housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering. You'll need to be reliable, compassionate, and always ready to make a difference. Barchester will provide training to help you thrive in this role.

About us

Barchester Healthcare is a leading provider of high-quality care and support services in the UK. They operate over 200 care homes and independent living services, employing over 17,000 people. Barchester is committed to delivering person-centred care and creating warm, welcoming environments for their residents.

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, but you should have a can-do attitude, good people skills, and be able to turn your hand to different tasks.

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.