Head House Keeper

TN United Kingdom; Whitchurch; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Housekeeping Assistant to join their team. In this role, you will create a welcoming environment for residents, ensuring high standards of cleanliness and hygiene. You'll engage with residents and staff, showcasing your strong communication skills and attention to detail. With full training provided, this is a fantastic opportunity for those looking to make a positive impact in a care setting. Enjoy a supportive workplace with various benefits, including career progression and wellbeing support. Join us in making a difference!

Benefits

Access to Blue Light Card

Fully funded training

Wage Stream App for early pay

Family friendly policies

Counselling and wellbeing support

Refer a friend scheme

Access to pension scheme

Qualifications

• Self-motivated and conscientious with a strong work ethic.
• Excellent communication skills, engaging with residents and staff.

Responsibilities

• Ensure cleanliness and infection control in all areas.
• Perform general cleaning and laundry for residents.
• Assist kitchen team with various tasks.

Skills

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Team player

Self-motivated

Organizational skills

Job description

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Head Housekeeper – Henning Hall 36 hours

Here at Springcare, we have a wonderful opportunity for a dedicated and conscientious Housekeeping Assistant to be a part of our Springcare family, where you will have a passion for creating a beautiful environment for our residents.

We believe that good housekeepers have many qualities, that make them excellent at their job:

What qualities does it take to be a Housekeeper at Springcare?

• Being self-motivated, and a team player
• Being conscientious with their work and pay attention to details
• Communication skills – communicating with our staff members and engaging with residents, showing care and empathy
• Have a strong work ethic and a positive can-do attitude
• Ability to prioritise their work and be organised.
• Be friendly and approachable

The role

As a Housekeeper with Springcare, you would take pride in ensuring that all standards of cleanliness, infection control and laundry are carried out to a high standard.

Everyday can be different within a care environment, some of the daily activities that our housekeeping team carry out are:

• General cleaning and tidying of communal areas and our residents’ bedrooms
• Hoovering, cleaning bathrooms and carrying out deep cleans.
• Laundry of resident’s clothes, bedding and other items.
• Assisting the kitchen team

Our housekeeping team generally work between the hours of 8am until 8pm, and could be a mix of morning, afternoon or a long day shift. Actual hours of work would be discussed during your interview.

Typical Shift patterns for a Day shift would be:

• 8am until 8pm
• 8am until 2pm
• 2pm until 8pm

Experience in a similar role is not essential; as we will support and provide you with full training.

What Springcare can offer to you:

• Permanent full and part time day contracts – with access to our work placed pension scheme
• Early pay using Wage Stream App – you can withdraw up to 50% of your earnings in advance of your pay
• Access to Blue Light Card – where you can make savings across hundreds of national retailers
• Fully funded training for nationally recognised qualifications (level 2 through to 5) with internal career progression opportunities
• Refer a friend £££ scheme for each friend that you recommend (T&C apply)
• Access to counselling and wellbeing support
• Family friendly policies
• Smooth robust recruitment process through our portal

If you are interested in becoming a housekeeper with Springcare, have the qualities that we believe make our housekeepers fantastic, we would love to hear from you and be part of your journey with a care environment.

Successful applicants would require two written references, a standard/enhanced DBS (depending on role) and evidence of a right to work in the UK check.

Springcare are committed to safe and fair recruitment, safeguarding, and protecting those we care for and serve. We make sure all of our staff are vetted, selected, trained and supervised fairly and to a high standard so that they can provide safe, effective and compassionate care.