Domestic Assistant

Sussex Housing & Care; Haywards Heath; On-site; GBP 1,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a welcoming team at Oakwood Court care home in Haywards Heath, where you can make a difference by caring for residents. We offer both full and part-time opportunities with flexible hours, a competitive salary of £12.60/hour, ongoing training, and a £500 starter bonus. Embrace the chance to work in a supportive environment where your contributions truly matter.

Benefits

Flexible Hours

Bonus schemes

Free uniform

Continuous learning and development

Qualifications

• No prior experience necessary, training provided.
• Ability to recognize the personal and private nature of residents' belongings.
• Demonstrate safe practice.

Responsibilities

• Clean and maintain residents' rooms and communal areas.
• Follow instructions from management regarding cleaning tasks.
• Ensure residents' safety while performing duties.

Skills

Good communication skills

Polite and courteous manner

Awareness of health and safety

Job description

*£500 NEW STARTER BONUS AVAILABLE

If you’re looking for job satisfaction, to be part of a friendly and supportive team at Oakwood Court care home in Haywards Heath, and to brighten people’s lives, look no further. You don’t need to have experience in working in a care home, we will train and support you from the very beginning. We offer a competitive salary, flexible hours, benefits and bonus schemes.

If you share our values;

• to put residents at the heart of everything you do;
• to care about what you do and the impact you have;
• to treat everyone with fairness, dignity, kindness and respect; and
• to make a difference together as one team...

…come and #CareWithUs. We are a Real Living Wage employer and we care about our people.

Main Responsibilities:

• Working in designated areas as prescribed on a rotating basis and as instructed by the Home Manager or Head of Care.
• Vacuuming and cleaning residents rooms, the corridors and all communal areas within the home to a high standard.
• Ensuring that the furniture, fittings including furniture, fabric, and equipment are also cleaned and maintained to a high standard.
• Being respectful of residents personal belongings and helping contribute to their upkeep / cleaning (e.g. furniture) and that any objects that are removed for cleaning are replaced in the same position.
• Ensuring the residents are safe whilst carrying out cleaning tasks.

Candidate Requirements

• Ability to recognise residents'rooms and belongings are personal and private
• To demonstrate safe practice
• Good communication skills
• Maintain a polite and courteous manner towards residents, staff and visitors to the home at all times
• Awareness of health and safety and manual handling

Employment Details

• Employment Type:Permanent
• Hours:Full and Part-Time Opportunities
• Pay:£12.60 Hourly
• Location: Oakwood Court, Haywards Heath

Additional Information

Flexible Hours Available together with full and part-time opportunities

In return, you will have an access to other benefits and bonus schemes. We’ll give you excellent support and continuous learning and development, as well as free uniform. Sussex Housing & Care is a not for profit organisation which means that we reinvest any financial surplus back into the organisation to benefit our residents and employees.We are Real Living Wage employer.

*Terms and conditions apply