Domestic Assistant, Fessey House

Swindon Borough Council; Swindon; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic team at Fessey House as a Domestic Assistant, where you'll maintain a high standard of cleanliness and support service users aged 65+ in a modern, supportive environment. This role offers a chance to make a real impact on the quality of life for residents while enjoying a diverse and innovative workplace with opportunities for personal development.

Qualifications

• Experience of domestic tasks such as cleaning and laundry.
• Fluent in English for effective customer-facing roles.

Responsibilities

• Provide high standard of cleaning and laundry.
• Assist at mealtimes and ensure safety of equipment.

Skills

Cleaning

Laundry

Health and Hygiene

Job description

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Domestic Assistant, Fessey House, Swindon

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Client:

Swindon Borough Council

Location:

Swindon, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Job Reference:

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Posted:

02.06.2025

Expiry Date:

17.07.2025

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Job Description:

At Swindon Borough Council, we want our town to be the best it can be. Our ambitious vision is supported by realistic transformation programmes, with the people of Swindon at their heart. Because that’s who we’re doing it for – the communities and businesses that make our town great. As part of the Council, you’ll support a friendly local authority making decisions with real impact. It’s all for better public services. Better processes. And a better quality of life, for everyone. Join us, and Swindon will be better with you.

Fessey House is not your “traditional” care home. Our 68 bed home comprises of 6 individual purpose built units, each of which include a kitchen, lounge and dining room.

Our service users are aged 65+, all with a cognitive impairment such as Dementia. It is a unique, modern environment, recently extended, with vast landscaped gardens and communal activity rooms for our residents to enjoy.

Fessey House aims to provide a supported living environment where older people can feel safe, secure and free to live their lives as independently as possible. Privacy, dignity and the right to make choices are paramount in our approach to providing the highest quality service for those who choose to make Fessey House their home.

Your next role

As a Domestic Assistant, you will join our friendly team, providing a high standard of cleaning, using your experience of domestic tasks which include cleaning, laundry and ensuring that equipment used is safe and in accordance with COSHH, Health and Hygiene regulations. In addition, you will be required to assist at meals times.

Working with us

Fessey House operates with a mixture of shift patterns including “earlies” (8:00am start) and “lates” (9:30pm finish) or “nights” (9:30pm to 8:00am) on a rolling 2 week rota with a requirement to work every other weekend.

Fessey House is located on Brookdene in Haydon Wick, easily accessible by bus between Orbital Shopping Park and Park North on the or between Taw Hill and Middle Wichel on the

You must be fluent in the English language (as a requirement of Part 7 of the Immigration Act “for the effective performance of a customer-facing role”).

Your next package

Please see our offer for more details.

As an employee, you will receive a diverse and exciting environment in which to work, encouraging creativity and innovation whilst recognising the need to support ongoing personal development and a flexible work life balance.

For Swindon to thrive in the future, we need to lay the foundations now. It’s why our regeneration and transformation programmes are already underway. So, you’ll be joining us at an exciting time on our journey. We’ll look to you to share your knowledge, influence decisions and drive real, positive change. With your contributions, we’ll achieve our vision of a prosperous, re-vitalised Swindon together. And you’ll be proud to say it was made better with you.

Please see our page for more details.

Potential applicants are sometimes put off if they don’t meet 100% of the requirements. We think individual experience, skills and passion make all the difference, so if you meet the majority of the criteria, we’d love to hear from you.

Your next steps

Read the and select the Apply button where you will be redirected to the Swindon Borough Council website to complete our online application process. Clicking the ‘Apply’ button on this job website is not an application, you must register on the Swindon Borough Council website in order to be considered for the role.

As an inclusive employer, we welcome applications from a diverse range of communities, and in particular disabled people and people from ethnic minorities. Read our.