Residential Care – General Assistant

Salary from: £12.71 per hour

25 hours per week

Location: WA5 9RJ

The Vacancy - This is a Permanent role, Daily shifts between 4 hours to 9 hours starting from 8.00am to 17.00pm

Helping you live your best life – Your choice. Your way.

At Catalyst Choices, we don’t want people to just enjoy being part of our working environment (although that is very important of course), but we want them to burst with pride when they share what they do and where they do it. You’ve probably heard of the saying, “live your best life”, its good advice, and when you’re spending much of your week at work, you want to be somewhere you love. If we truly want our people to deliver the best care, we must be sure we’re giving them the best working environment to do it within.  For that reason, we’ve developed ‘The Catalyst Way’, a staff-co-created approach that supports a great working culture. How? Well, it’s all about supporting our people to not only do the right things, but to do them in the right way - in the way we talk, in the way we act, how we’re rewarded as Employee Owners, but most importantly in the way we make others feel.  

Job Role

Catalyst Choices are seeking dedicated and compassionate Residential General Assistant to join our team. You’ll play a vital role in supporting individuals with their day-to-day needs, promoting independence, dignity, and wellbeing.

To provide high-quality support across multiple areas including cleaning, laundry, caregiving, and kitchen assistance, ensuring a safe, clean, and welcoming environment for residents and staff.

Key Responsibilities:

Cleaning Duties:

• Clean a full lounge daily to a high standard.

• Maintain cleanliness of guest toilets, ensuring they are fully stocked with essential supplies.

• Deep clean resident bedrooms, including:

• Changing bed linen

• Cleaning windows

• Cleaning bathrooms and sinks

Laundry Support:

• Assist in the laundry for approximately 2 hours per shift

• Ensure residents’ laundry is handled with care and returned promptly

Kitchen Assistance:

Support the Cook with:

• Food preparation

• Plating up meals

• Washing up and maintaining kitchen cleanliness

• Assist with breakfast service until 9:30 AM.

General:

• Work collaboratively with other team members to ensure all areas are maintained to a high standard.

• Provide occasional support with caregiving tasks as needed.

Salary & benefits

• Healthcare cashback (dental, optical, physio, wellbeing)

• Care Friends referral rewards

• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

• Life Insurance

• Salary sacrifice schemes - pension, cycle, home, tech, car

• Continuous professional develop and progression opportunities

• 25 days holiday including bank holidays

What do you need to join us?

• Reliable and punctual

• Able to work independently and as part of a team

• Comfortable with a varied role that includes cleaning, laundry, and kitchen work

• Friendly and respectful toward residents and colleagues

Safeguarding Requirement

Catalyst Choices commit to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our residents and people in our care, our requirement for the successful applicant would be to undertake an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. Satisfactory references are also required.

Ready to join the Catalyst Team? If you have a passion for care, we encourage you to apply with your CV to joinus@catalystchoices.org.uk

The Company

At Catalyst, our unique role as Employee Owners means we all have a stake in creating a great place to work, and of course, all have a big part to play in creating that environment and making those who join it feel welcome and supported. Talking of new recruits, we work hard to bring in team members with the right attitude, they’ve got to see themselves in our values and bring everything they have to their work. We do everything we can to make sure that we only select people who’ll fit into our ways of working and gel with other team members. If we get that right, it’s the magic ingredient to keeping the Catalyst way alive.

No matter your role, everything we do is focused on our unwavering commitment to the people we support. Our aim is that every individual we support thrives, living their best lives, their way.

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