About this role
Job summary 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-ranging role involves responsibilities across housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering, allowing you to contribute to creating a warm and homely environment. The job is suitable for people from diverse backgrounds with relevant life experiences and a compassionate, reliable, and practical approach.
Main duties of the job The General Assistant role at a Barchester care home involves a variety of tasks to support the provision of high-quality care for residents. Responsibilities span housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering, allowing you to play a part in creating a warm and welcoming atmosphere. As a compassionate and reliable individual, you'll build positive relationships with residents and ensure their experience with the care home is a happy and meaningful one. The role provides the opportunity to develop your skills further through training and development courses.
About us Barchester is a leading provider of care homes in the UK, dedicated to delivering the highest standards of care and support for residents. The company operates a network of care homes across the country, employing a team of dedicated and compassionate professionals to create a warm and nurturing environment for those in their care.
Job description 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 training and development for all roles Access to wellbeing and support tools A range of retail discounts and savings Unlimited referrals with 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. The employer is looking for individuals with a can-do attitude, practical skills, and a genuine desire to make a positive difference in the lives of residents.
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 https://jobs.barchester.com/
Southampton
SO30 2ZS
Employer's website https://www.barchester.com/ (Opens in a new tab)