Overview
This role is for a Housekeeping Assistant at Avery Healthcare, a leading provider of luxury elderly care homes in the UK. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring high standards of cleanliness and laundry are maintained in the home, while treating residents with dignity and respect.
Job responsibilities
Package Description:
Shift details: This role is for maternity cover.
At Avery Healthcare, we are committed to supporting the people who care for our residents. You will be making a positive impact on residents’ lives every day, with compassion and dedication. We offer a caring, supportive environment with opportunities to learn and develop throughout your career. We are looking for a warm, enthusiastic, and dedicated individual to join our award-winning team as a Housekeeping Assistant.
Purpose and responsibilities:
* Carry out all cleaning duties in accordance with worksheet instructions.
* Understand the cleaning requirements of different surfaces and coverings and the properties of cleaning materials, ensuring that areas are well presented and maintained in good condition.
* Ensure that all residents are treated with dignity and respect and that their personal space and belongings are respected.
About the role
Your focus as a Housekeeping Assistant will be to work as part of a team, ensuring that all standards of cleanliness and laundry are maintained in the home. You will operate according to Avery Healthcare’s standard operating procedures for housekeeping and laundry, ensuring that hotel service standards are maintained.
About you
To succeed in your application, you will live our values of caring, supportive, honest, respectful and accountable in all you do.
Our ideal candidate must:
* Have knowledge of Health and Safety, particularly Moving and Handling techniques, Fire Safety and COSHH assessments.
* Have experience of cleaning laundry in a public setting.
* Demonstrate compassion and commitment to delivering high-quality housekeeping/laundry service to residents.
* Be adaptive and flexible to cover a range of responsibilities at short notice.
About Avery
At Avery, we are a leading provider of luxury elderly care homes with a vision of "creating meaningful lives together." We offer exceptional care across our network of over 100 homes and aim to build a supportive and empowering environment for employees.
Please note this role will require:
* ADBS Disclosure check, the cost of which will be met by Avery Healthcare.
* Proof of eligibility to work in the UK.
This advert may be withdrawn prior to the advertised deadline depending on the volume of applications received and business needs.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Knowledge of Health and Safety, particularly Moving and Handling techniques, Fire Safety and COSHH assessments.
* Experience of cleaning laundry in a public setting.
* Demonstrate compassion and commitment to the delivery of high-quality housekeeping/laundry service to residents.
* Ability to be adaptive and flexible to cover a range of responsibilities at short notice.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and a submission for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) will be necessary to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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