Domestic Assistant

Aster Group; Richmond; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a respected care provider as a Domestic Assistant at Cecil Court Care Home. You will ensure cleanliness and hygiene while fostering a comfortable environment for residents. This role involves teamwork, compassion, and basic skills in a caring setting. We invest in our staff's wellbeing and development, offering valuable benefits alongside your essential contributions to our residential care efforts.

Benefits

Colleague wellbeing workshops

Employee assistance programme

Defined Contribution Pension

Volunteering hours

Employee recognition initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience in a caring industry preferred, such as hospitality or schools.
• Willingness to pass DBS check.

Responsibilities

• Maintain high standard of cleanliness and hygiene.
• Tidy and clean residents' rooms, bathrooms, and communal areas.
• Complete laundry duties and maintain cleaning equipment.

Skills

Team player

Compassionate

Patient

Basic literacy

Basic numeracy

Job description

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As a Domestic Assistant at Cecil Court Care Home, you will be responsible for maintaining a high standard of cleanliness and hygiene within the Home, whilst ensuring a safe, comfortable environment always and respecting the privacy and dignity of residents always.

Reporting to the Home Management Team, some of your main duties will include:

• Tidying and cleaning residents' rooms and bathrooms, as well as offices and communal areas
• Completing Laundry duties
• Maintaining all cleaning equipment
• To report any faulty equipment, defects or hazards in the Home to your line manager

About us

C&C is a forward-thinking and innovative charitable provider of housing, care, and bespoke services exclusively for older people in London. We have 90 years’ experience of retirement home design and living in London. We are very proud of the ‘family’ feel of our Care Homes.

About you

You will need:

• To be a great team player
• Basic literacy and numeracy skills
• To be compassionate and patient
• Ideally some experience in a caring industry, for example hospitality or schools
• To pass our DBS check or be on the DBS Update Service

Even better if you have previous experience of a care environment.

We invest in our colleagues because we know if they have a better day at work, the service our customers receive will be better. The Aster Offer is our offer to our colleagues to ensure they have a great day at work and includes things like:

• A focus on colleague wellbeing – workshops, an employee assistance programme offering counselling and support, mental health training and a health cash plan
• We invest in colleagues’ careers and development through our leader and colleague development frameworks
• Defined Contribution Pension and attached life assurance
• Volunteering hours available to all colleagues to enable them to give back
• Savings at cinemas, gyms, holidays, days out, various shops and eateries and lots more
• We celebrate colleagues who go above and beyond with a range of personalised recognition initiatives.

C&C as part of the Aster Group is not a sponsorship organisation and all candidates will be required to verify their right to work in the UK prior to commencement of employment with the Aster Group & it’s subsidiary brands.