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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 the residents deserve. Your responsibilities will span across housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering, allowing you to contribute to creating a warm and homely environment. With a caring and empathetic approach, you'll build positive relationships with the residents and ensure their experience is happy and meaningful.

The General Assistant role at Barchester Healthcare is a wide-ranging position that involves diverse responsibilities across various aspects of the care home operations. You'll be responsible for tasks related to housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, and catering, all of which contribute to providing a comfortable and nurturing environment for the residents. As a key member of the team, you'll be expected to be reliable, compassionate, and always ready to make a positive difference in the lives of the people you serve.

The role requires a practical approach, as you'll be required to adapt to different tasks and situations. Barchester Healthcare will provide comprehensive training to ensure you have the necessary skills and knowledge to thrive in this position.

Barchester Healthcare is a leading provider of high-quality care services in the UK. With a focus on delivering personalized and compassionate care, the organization operates a network of care homes and hospitals across the country. Barchester is committed to creating a supportive and inclusive work environment, offering a range of benefits and opportunities for professional development to its employees.

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 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.

• No specific qualifications are required for this role. Barchester Healthcare values life experiences and a caring, empathetic approach over formal qualifications. The organization will provide comprehensive training to ensure you have the necessary skills and knowledge to excel in the General Assistant position.

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.