Admin Assistant - Care Home

As an Admin Assistant at a Barchester care home, you'll carry out a range of responsibilities to help deliver quality care and support for residents. You'll handle administrative tasks, answer phone calls, meet and greet visitors, and engage with residents. Across everything you do, you'll help create a vibrant, happy environment.

Main duties of the job

The Admin Assistant role involves a variety of tasks, including answering the phone, handling files, and supporting managers. You'll also meet and greet visitors, engage with residents, and show prospective clients and their families around the care home. Good computer skills, a confident telephone manner, and a genuine interest in the residents are essential for this position.

About us

Barchester Healthcare is a leading provider of care homes in the UK. They are committed to delivering high-quality care and support to their residents, and value their employees who contribute to creating a positive and nurturing environment.

Job responsibilities

ABOUT THE ROLE As an Admin Assistant at a Barchester care home, you'll carry out a range of responsibilities to help us deliver the quality care and support our residents deserve. In this varied role, we'll need you to answer the phone, handle our files and support our managers. You'll also meet and greet visitors, engage with residents and show prospective clients and their families around so they can see what makes us so different. Across everything you do as an Admin Assistant here, you'll go out of your way to help us create a vibrant, happy environment.

ABOUT YOU If you have the ability to multi-task, good computer skills and a confident telephone manner you could be well-suited to the Admin Assistant role with us. It's also really important that you're a people person; you'll take a genuine interest in our residents and their families. If that sounds like you, we'll give you the opportunity to develop your skills with courses that have been designed to build your confidence across all your responsibilities.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• No specific qualifications are required, but strong administrative and people skills are essential. The employer will provide training and development opportunities to build your confidence and skills.

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.