housekeeper

Orders of St. John Care Trust; Arundel; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 23,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days holiday

Free uniform

Free DBS

Employee Assistance Programme

Refer a Friend scheme

Blue Light Card & My Rewards

Job summary

Orders of St. John Care Trust in Arundel is looking for a Housekeeper to maintain the highest standards of cleanliness across our residential care home. You will help create a welcoming, safe environment for residents, their friends and families, with access to the training you need.

Experience in housekeeping is great but not essential; we provide full training. If you take pride in your work, communicate well, enjoy teamwork and want to grow with a supportive not-for-profit organisation, apply

Qualifications

• You’ll be comfortable in an elderly care setting and able to relate to residents in a caring way.
• If you’ve worked in housekeeping before, that’s helpful; if not, training is provided.
• Pride in your work, good communication, teamwork, and a desire to excel daily are important.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the highest standards of cleanliness in the home.
• Champion hygiene and infection control; use specialised equipment and materials.
• Keep rooms and living spaces clean, tidy and well maintained for residents and their visitors.

Job description

We're one of the largest not for profit care provider in the UK, specialising in providing high quality, person-centred care for older people, in care homes and extra care housing nationwide.

At OSJCT we care about our residents and we care about each other. That means you'll enjoy great career development working for an expanding organisation. Because we're a not for profit trust, we invest every penny we make in the people who live in our homes and the people who work here too. This means better quality care and lovely homes for our residents, along with competitive wages and great training and development for our people.

We provide outstanding care, working closely with leading experts on dementia and elderly care. And we're currently modernising our portfolio of care homes - refurbishing our existing homes and moving into new, inspiring, contemporary care homes too.

As we expand nationwide, we need more people with the right mix of skills, passion and ambition to help us grow even more.

St Wilfrid's Priory offers residential care to 23 residents, located within the historic and picturesque town of Arundel and hasextensive grounds that are fully accessible even to those residents with limited mobility.

Contracted hours: Bank

ABOUT OUR ROLE

Our Housekeepers play a vital role in maintaining the highest standards of cleanliness in our homes, ensuring that every room and living space is clean, tidy and maintained at all times. A champion for hygiene and infection control within the home, you'll have access to specialised equipment and materials to ensure you can create a welcoming, safe and comfortable environment for residents, as well as their friends and families. Some of our residents love to join in with simple cleaning and laundry tasks, so you may sometimes find that you have extra help as you carry out your daily routines.

In joining us, you'll also become part of our extended family. You'll work alongside other team members who are passionate about providing a safe environment, as well as warmth and kindness to all those who live and work in our homes.

AND IN RETURN

The Trust is a great place to work; we've been providing care for almost 1,000 years and we're currently the second largest not-for-profit provider in the UK. Not-for-profit means that we reinvest every penny we make into our residents, colleagues and the care homes we live and work in. Therefore, we offer a great range of benefits, including a competitive salary, training and development. Alongside keeping our colleagues safe with PPE and daily testing

Here are some of the other benefits you'll enjoy as a valued member of our team:

• 28 days holiday (including Bank Holidays)
• Higher rates of pay at weekends
• Free uniform
• Free DBS
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Refer a Friend scheme rewarding you up to £1000 for every recommendation you make who successfully starts working for us
• Blue Light Card and "My Rewards" programme, offering you discounts on shopping, days out, restaurants and much more

ABOUT YOU

You'll be comfortable in an elderly care setting, with the ability to relate to our residents in a caring and sensitive manner.

If you've worked in a housekeeping role before, then that's great as you'll have a good idea of what to expect. But if housekeeping as a profession is new to you, then don't worry - we'll provide all the training you need to start your new career with us. What's more important to us is that you take pride in your work, you're good at communicating with people, you enjoy working as part of a team, you'll be keen to learn and will want to excel at your job every day.

If you think you have the right skills and attitude to deliver the highest quality of care for our residents as a Housekeeper within our care homes, then you could be the next to join us.