Domestic Assistant

Exemplar Health Care Services Limited; Barnsley; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health care provider is seeking a Domestic Assistant to ensure high cleanliness standards in their new care home in Barnsley. You'll play a crucial role in creating a welcoming environment for residents. Ideal candidates are kind, detail-oriented, and team players. Experience is valued but not essential. The position offers regular support, discounts, and benefits like a free DBS check.

Benefits

Access to wages before payday

Retail and lifestyle discounts

Free DBS check

24/7 counselling and support

Blue Light Card eligibility

Qualifications

• Kind, caring, and understanding.
• Passionate about high cleanliness standards.
• Ability to build trust and promote dignity.

Responsibilities

• Carry out daily and weekly cleaning routines.
• Clean and tidy designated areas in the home.
• Report breakages, damage, defects, and hazards.

Skills

Attention to detail

Housekeeping skills

Team player

Communication skills

Can-do attitude

Job description

Do you take pride in your cleaning standards and attention to detail? As a Domestic Assistant, you'll ensure that our home is clean and welcoming for the people who live and work here.

Join our Domestic Team in our new care home and help us create an inviting environment for the people we support. You'll play a vital role in maintaining a high level of cleanliness and hygiene in the entire home, contributing to a comfortable and positive living experience.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of something new. You'll have the chance to shape the culture of a brand new team, in a state of the art, purpose built home designed with the people we support in mind.

About Exemplar Health Care

Springfield Vale is part of Exemplar Health Care, one of the country's leading nursing care providers for adults living with complex and high acuity needs.

When open, Springfield Vale will provide nursing care for adults living with complex needs arising from dementia.

As well as stable and secure employment opportunities, we offer great benefits and perks, and plenty of opportunities to learn, develop and progress.

Be part of the future in care home design

This is an incredibly exciting time to join us and be a part of a 'first' for Exemplar Health Care.

We've partnered with Sterling University to design Springfield Vale as a purpose-built home, that follows their principles of dementia design, creating an environment that supports the cognitive and physical needs of people with dementia.

Once open, you'll work towards achieving Sterling Universities accreditation and making Springfield Vale a leading home for complex dementia care.

About the role

As a Domestic Assistant you will ensure our home maintains a high standard of cleanliness and hygiene to help create a comfortable living space for the people we support.

Day‑to‑day responsibilities include:

• carrying out all daily and weekly cleaning routines, as well as ad‑hoc duties
• cleaning and tidying designated areas around the home including bedrooms, lounges, kitchens, bathrooms, kitchens and offices
• cleaning duties including dusting, mopping, polishing and vacuuming
• using equipment such as carpet cleaning machines
• supporting with washing and drying laundry, as required
• reporting breakages, damage, defects and hazards
• building trust and promoting choice, dignity and independence.

You’ll put our people at the heart of everything you do - whether that’s hoovering our residents’ bedrooms or polishing their photo frames. We can guarantee that whatever you bring to the role, you’ll see great rewards.

If you haven’t worked in the care sector before, we’ll help you feel right at home from the start with our induction, buddy and ongoing training programmes.

We value relevant experience but it isn’t essential for this role.

Above all, you’re someone who identifies with our values of fun, integrity, responsiveness, success and teamwork.

You're also:

• kind, caring and understanding
• someone with a keen eye for detail
• an excellent team player
• passionate about high standards of cleanliness, with great housekeeping skills
• a positive person with a can‑do attitude
• a great listener and communicator.

Benefits

• regular supervision, peer support, learning opportunities and career prospects
• access to wages before payday
• retail and lifestyle discounts
• free DBS check
• 24/7 counselling and support
• Blue Light Card eligibility.