General Assistant - Part-time

Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust (JRHT); New Earswick; On-site; GBP 5,400 - 6,400; Full time

Job summary

Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust (JRHT) is seeking a General Assistant at Hartrigg Oaks Bungalows in New Earswick, York. The role involves cleaning and home help across five days per week, with a 10-hour week schedule. Salary is £13.47 per hour, and the post currently does not offer Tier 2 sponsorship.

You will deliver high-quality cleaning services, maintain residents' dignity and confidentiality, and work well within a team while demonstrating initiative and reliability.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication and teamwork.
• DBS check is required.
• Experience in cleaning or care environment is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Provide residents with high standard cleaning in their own homes.
• Maintain professional boundaries and confidentiality at all times.
• Work on a rotating rota across five days per week.
• Deliver a consistent level of service to ensure residents have a comfortable living environment.

Skills

Communication skills

Friendly personality

Flexible

Team player

Initiative

Job description

Location: Hartrigg Oaks Bungalows, New Earswick, York

Salary: £13.47

Expires: 04/10/2026 23:59

Location: Hartrigg Oaks Bungalows, New Earswick, York

Position: General Assistant

Hours of Work: 10 hours per week on a permanent basis

• Please note that we do not currently offer any Tier 2 sponsorship*

About The Role

Our General Assistants maintain a high standard of cleanliness and hygiene throughout the service to provide a quality living environment for residents.

You’ll provide residents with a high standard cleaning service in their own homes. You’ll ensure that residents with us are provided with choice, dignity and respect by always maintaining professional boundaries and confidentiality.

To meet the needs of our residents, our home help provision is delivered over 5 days a week. This role works flexibly throughout the week on a rota basis, subject to the needs of the residents, any flexible working arrangements in place and the working time regulations.

About You

You will need to:

• Have good communication skills.
• Have a friendly and outgoing personality.
• Be flexible and comfortable being part of a team.
• Be hardworking.
• Have the ability to work on your own initiative.

If you have cleaning experience or have worked in a care environment this would be beneficial although full training will be provided.

• Please note an Enhanced DBS check is required for this role.

Our core priority

JRHT strives to be a housing association that is sustainable and engaging, providing high quality and continuously improving services and decent affordable homes in well managed communities prioritising those in greatest need.

Additional Information

We are a values driven organisation and our values drive our behaviours. We’re at our best when we’re continually building on trust, showing we care and making a difference – and we hope others will do the same. We are committed to creating an inclusive and welcoming workplace, where all colleagues can be themselves.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

At JRHT we believe in giving everyone an equal chance to succeed. Applications are welcome from all regardless of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief, race, sex, sexual orientation, trans status or social economic background. We positively encourage applications from people with experience of living in poverty.

As part of our commitment to equity and specifically anti-racism, we operate an anonymised recruitment process so that bias is eliminated from the shortlisting process.

We are a Disability Confident Employer. This means that we are committed to the recruitment, progression and retention of disabled individuals. We offer interviews to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the job. If you have a disability, please tell us if you would like to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme.