Bupa

Receptionist (Weekends)

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Poole, Dorset, England, GBR

In-Office

13-14 Hourly

Entry level

Healthtech

The Role

Weekend receptionist providing first point of contact for visitors, managing enquiries, conducting show-arounds, handling phone and face-to-face support, and assisting the Home Manager with clerical duties, paperwork, and filing to ensure daily tasks are completed.

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Job Description:

Receptionist (Weekends)The Links Care Home, 1 Golf Links Road, Broadstone BH18 8BESaturday and Sunday 10am – 5pm 30 minute break 6.5 hours per day£13.10 - £14.10We make health happenHere at Bupa we support those when they need it the most. Our care homes are dedicated to delivering person-centred care, supporting independence and honouring choice to help our residents live their best lives.You’ll help us make health happen by:

Acting as the first point of contact for all visitors to the home
Taking responsibility for managing new enquiries
Providing advice and support both face to face and over the phone
Conducting show-arounds within the care home
Supporting the Home Manager and Administrator with clerical duties such as maintaining paper work and filing
Dealing with enquiries in a timely manner and ensuring daily and weekly tasks are completed

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:You’ve worked as a Receptionist before with experience in providing excellent customer service, you'll have a friendly manner both face to face and over the phone. You’re approachable and organised and have the ability to build strong relationships with our residents, their families and internal teams. Dedicated and efficient with an ability to handle a varied workload, but importantly, your caring attitude underpins everything you do - to make a real difference to people’s lives.BenefitsOur benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

My Healthcare - Free access to 24/7 support, advice, and treatment for a variety of health-related issues, including remote GP appointments, physiotherapy and mental health support
Annual allowance which you can redeem against a menu of Bupa healthcare products, all to the approximate value of £350
Wagestream - Have early access to up to 40% of your earned wages within minutes
28 days holiday
We offer a sick pay scheme to our frontline teams, as an addition to statutory sick pay, to help provide some reassurance and financial support during longer absences.
Long service - For every milestone at Bupa we will reward you with ecards, extra holidays and money!
Free meal on every shift
Interest-free annual travel loan to enable the purchase of public transport annual season tickets
We offer a range of Bupa pension plans – find out more on our career site
Parental leave - We have schemes for adoption, birth parents and co parents -find out more on our career site
Menopause Plan - Specifically designed to empower women to seek advice, choose their treatment and take control of their health
Access to discounts at a wide variety of gyms and fitness facilities across the UK

Why Bupa?We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do. We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Time Type:

Full time

Job Area:

Care Home - Facilities & Home Support

Locations:

The Links

Skills Required

Previous experience working as a receptionist
Excellent customer service skills
Friendly manner face-to-face and over the phone
Approachable and organised
Ability to build strong relationships with residents, families, and internal teams
Ability to handle a varied workload and complete tasks in a timely manner
Caring attitude
Availability to work weekends (Saturday and Sunday 10:00–17:00)
Basic clerical and administrative skills (paperwork, filing)

Bupa Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Bupa and has not been reviewed or approved by Bupa.

Healthcare Strength — Health cover via the UK Health Trust, day‑one medical support for frontline roles, and dedicated women’s health initiatives indicate a robust, health‑centric package. Access to digital GP, nurse lines, and options such as dental and health cash plans further reinforce medical and preventive care breadth.
Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing programs span mental, physical, emotional, and financial support, with offerings like EAP access, gym discounts, and health assessments. Flexible work and wellbeing programs highlighted in some regions add to lifestyle value.
Parental & Family Support — Policies include enhanced parental leave in certain UK business units and a family mental‑health support line. Options to extend medical coverage to dependants and family‑oriented allowances strengthen support beyond the individual.

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The Company

HQ: London

23,800 Employees

Year Founded: 1947

What We Do

Bupa's purpose is helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We are an international healthcare company serving over 38 million customers worldwide. With no shareholders, we reinvest profits into providing more and better healthcare for the benefit of current and future customers. We directly employ around 85,000 people, principally in the UK, Australia, Spain, Chile, Poland, New Zealand, Hong Kong SAR, Türkiye, Brazil, Mexico, the US, Middle East and Ireland. We also have associate businesses in Saudi Arabia and India. For more information, visit www.bupa.com