Admin Assistant

Location

Ipswich, Suffolk | United Kingdom

Job description

About Avocet Court Care Home:

Situated in a residential nook in Ipswich, our 115-bedroom Avocet Court Care Home is surrounded by beautiful gardens. As one of the top care homes, we provide exceptional standards of care.

We’re proud to have an award-winning activities team and a newly refurbished café that is the heart of our home. We also have fantastic sustainability credentials, including solar panels and green initiatives to minimise our environmental impact.

You’ll help us create a warm atmosphere for our residents, their loved ones and our healthcare partners as we welcome them into our home. You’ll also be a vital part of the team behind the scenes; helping with shift planning, payroll, as well as a selection of admin and data tasks.

About the role:

This is a wide and varied role which reports to the Business Manager and the Home’s General Manager.

You should apply if:

• You’re approachable, fun, enterprising, and unafraid to wear multiple hats.
• You enjoy problem-solving.
• You’re comfortable working in an ambitious environment.
• You’re passionate about making a genuine difference to people’s lives and can easily empathise with people.
• You’re data driven, organised, accurate, and intellectually honest about how your work is performing - and driven to continuously improve it.
• You’re comfortable working in a busy workplace.
• You’re passionate about learning and sharing your knowledge and experience every day.
• You have strong communication skills.
• You want a good work-life balance.

*Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role

Shift Pattern:

8-hour shifts from 9 to 5, full-time hours available 37.5 hours per week.

Please note that every other weekend will be included in the rota as standard.

Home Location:
Monmouth Close, Ipswich, England, IP2 8RS.

About you

You will have excellent customer service, communication and IT skills, ideally Microsoft Office, together with an eye for detail.

You are organised, numerate and accurate, with a ‘can-do’ attitude.

You are confident in handling personal and sensitive data and ensuring it is maintained in a confidential manner, at all times.

Previous administrative experience is desirable, as is knowledge of Finance and or HR procedures, however training will be provided for the successful candidate.

What we can offer:

• Fully comprehensive induction.
• Competitive salary, plus enhancements on bank holidays.
• 28 days of holiday per year.
• Free Blue Light Card & access to the Blue Light discount platform.
• Refer a friend scheme.

About Athena:
Athena Care Homes are a family run business with seven homes across East Anglia. We have care homes in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, Kings Lynn (West Norfolk) & Ipswich (Suffolk).

Our aim is to be the provider of choice for our residents and the employer of choice for our team members.

Our purpose is to create excellent quality homely environments with the highest standards of care, catering, housekeeping and activities.

We aim to enhance the lives of our residents and enable them to enjoy life to the full as individuals in happy, comfortable and safe surroundings.

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