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. Your diverse responsibilities will span housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering, allowing you to play a vital role in creating a warm and homely environment for the residents.

Main duties of the job

As a General Assistant, you'll be responsible for a variety of tasks, including housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering. You'll need to be reliable, compassionate, and always ready to make a difference in the lives of the residents. Barchester will provide training to help you thrive in this role, and you'll have the opportunity to take additional courses to further develop your skills.

About us

Barchester Healthcare is a leading provider of high-quality care homes in the UK. They are committed to delivering exceptional care and support to their residents, and they value their employees highly. Barchester offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package, including free learning and development opportunities, a profit-sharing scheme, and discounts on various products and services.

Job description

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

Essential

• No specific qualifications are required for this role. Barchester is looking for candidates who have the right personal qualities, such as being reliable, compassionate, and caring. They will provide the necessary training to help you succeed in the role.

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Barchester Healthcare

Address

Barchester Healthcare

Tewkesbury

GL20 8US