Cleaner (part time)

Nottingham Community Housing Association; Slough; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Nottingham Community Housing Association as a Cleaner at Sherwood House, a care home for older persons. In this role, you will maintain high cleanliness standards, ensure safety compliance, and provide a supportive environment for residents. Ideal candidates are kind, caring, and attentive, with experience in a cleaning role. This position offers enhanced annual leave and a supportive working environment.

Benefits

Enhanced annual leave

Wellbeing investment

Qualifications

• Experience in cleaning office/business premises and/or communal areas in a residential setting desired.
• Understanding of Health and Safety requirements and safe storage of materials and equipment.

Responsibilities

• Provide a comprehensive cleaning service for the care home.
• Maintain supplies of consumables in toilets and kitchen areas.
• Monitor and report health and safety hazards to the line manager.

Skills

Attention to detail

Team player

Motivated

Job description

Are you looking for a rewarding role in friendly environment? Do you have a passion for cleaning and great attention to detail? Would you like to make a real difference in the community?

Would you like to work for a company who:

• Has official “Great Places to Work” endorsement?
• Who will offer you enhanced annual leave?
• Who truly invests in their colleague’s wellbeing (not just free fruit)?

Yes? Then please read on …

Here at NCHA we have a fantastic opportunity for the right person to join our friendly and supportive team as a Cleaner at Sherwood House.

This is our very loved care home for older persons, situated in a quiet village. Our beautifully refurbished period home has been fully modernised to meet the varying needs of our residents, including mobility issues, physical disabilities and lack of confidence to live independently. We consider the daily cleanliness and hygiene of the home to be paramount in ensuring we keep residents and colleagues safe and well at all times.

“Great satisfaction from working in such a beautiful place and maintaining the home to the standard that it upholds. I take great pride in maintaining the quality of the home” – NCHA Colleague

The Role

As a Cleaner at Sherwood House, you will provide a comprehensive cleaning service for the project.

The main duties and responsibilities of this role may include but are not limited to:

• Ensure that a high standard of cleanliness is maintained throughout the project and cleaning is completed as per the agreed work schedule.
• Maintain supplies of consumables in toilets and kitchen areas.
• Monitor and give written report on health and safety hazards to line manager.
• Ensure safe storage of equipment and dangerous substances; compliance with COSHH regulations.
• Report any concerns for resident well-being immediately to Line manager.

Please refer to the role profiles for more information.

What we are looking for

We would like to hear from you if you are akindandcaringindividual, withexperience in cleaningoffice business premises and/or communal areas in a residential setting(although full training is provided). Our ideal candidate isthorough,attentive,motivatedand is ateam player. You will need to have an understanding of Health and Safety requirements and the safe storage of materials and equipment, and demonstrate this at application and interview stage.

All successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check; paid for by NCHA.

Working Hours

Sherwood House is a 24/7 hours service, open 365 days a year. Shifts for this role include weekdays, weekends and bank holidays. Working hours for this role are between 8.00 am and 3.00 pm over 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Occasionally, you will be required to attend training at our Head Office, which is based in Clifton.

Travelling to Sherwood House

Due to its location, candidates who can drive are highly desirable, as public transport involves a 20-minute walk to the care home from The National School in Hucknall, which is the furthest the threes buses (Trent Barton) can take you to in your journey to us. The home is a 7-minute drive from the High Street in Hucknall.

USEFUL TOP TIPS:

• You will need to attach a CV in order to apply for this role.
• All correspondence will be via your registered email address.
• View the full Role Profile in the document tab at the top of the page and refer to the Person Specification section of the Role Profile to complete your application – show us why you are suitable!
• For more information about NCHA, please refer to the attached ‘Helping Our Customers’– get a better idea of what we do across the organisation!

To apply,

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Looking forward to receiving your application!

Interviews will be ongoing, and NCHA reserves the right to close the vacancy early if sufficient interest is received.

Please note that we are not currently offering visa sponsorship.

As an Equal Opportunities and Disability Confident Employer, NCHA welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates including those from Black, Asian and minority ethnic groups and disabled candidates. As part of our LGBT Allies Programme, we also welcome applications from members of the LGBT communityand encourage inclusivity in the workplace.

The Company

We’re Nottingham Community Housing Association, known to many as NCHA. We’ve been around since 1973, and we're really proud of that. We're more than just a housing association: we deliver care and support to people all over the East Midlands. Readour story to find out more about us.