Housekeeper

The Orders of St John Care Trust; Downley; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 21,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days holiday (including Bank Hols)

Workplace pension

Free uniform

Free DBS

Employee Assistance Programme

Refer a Friend up to £1000

Blue Light Card & My Rewards

Job summary

The Orders of St John Care Trust is seeking a Housekeeper for The Heights care home in Downley, High Wycombe. The role focuses on maintaining high cleanliness standards across rooms and living spaces, with training provided to start your care-home career.

You will work as part of a compassionate team, ensuring a welcoming, safe environment for residents and visitors, with paid benefits and flexible hours to suit 15 hours per week.

Qualifications

• You’ll be comfortable in an elderly care setting, with the ability to relate to our residents in a caring and sensitive manner.
• Training will be provided to start your new career with us.
• Value pride in your work, good communication, teamwork, and a willingness to learn.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the highest standards of cleanliness in residents' rooms and living spaces.
• Support hygiene and infection control within the home.
• Assist with laundry and daily housekeeping tasks as part of the team.

Job description

Housekeeper Location: Downley, High Wycombe Pay rate: £12.97 per hour Contracted hours: 15 hours per week

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. The Heights care home was designed and built to enable the effective delivery of specialist nursing care, with a practical nursing unit on each wing. The home provides a bright, safe and modern living environment, with 75 individual rooms. Not only are there many on-site facilities, there is also plenty of communal and outdoor space, so everyone can get involved in the varied and stimulating selection of activities available in our High Wycombe Care Home. We encourage our residents to bring personal items from home to give that home-from-home feel.

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

• 28 days holiday (including Bank Holidays)
• A workplace pension
• 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.