Housekeeper (Part Time) (Permanent) - REN12566

Renfrewshire Council; Paisley; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading council in Scotland is seeking a care support provider to deliver high-quality services in a care home environment. Responsibilities include catering, cleaning, and ensuring hygiene standards. Ideal candidates will have relevant experience, skills, and certificates that ensure dignity and confidentiality of clients is maintained at all times.

Qualifications

• Experience in catering, cleaning, and laundry services.
• Ability to maintain dignity and confidentiality of clients.
• Awareness of hygiene practices.

Responsibilities

• Carry out tasks related to catering, cleaning, and laundry.
• Maintain standards of areas used by clients and staff.
• Work under the guidance of the Assistant Facilities Housekeeper.

Skills

Organisational skills

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Teamwork

Hygiene practices awareness

Education

SVQ in Catering or equivalent

SVQ in Cleaning or equivalent

Elementary food hygiene certificate

Job description

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You will provide a consistent high-quality service in all areas allocated to you within the care home environment to ensure that the environment meets the requirements of the service specification and expectations of clients and staff alike.

Key tasks for which you will be responsible include; carrying out tasks relating to catering, cleaning and laundry services; ensuring that the clients' dignity and confidentiality is maintained at all times; working within all areas of the care home environment of Facilities Management Soft Services as instructed by the Assistant Facilities Housekeeper or other appropriate manager and ensuring that all areas used by the clients and care staff are maintained to the required standard on a consistent and timely basis.

It is essential that you have experience of working within the catering, cleaning and laundry service and high awareness of current hygiene practices. You must have organisational, communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to work as part of a team.

An SVQ (or equivalent) in Catering, SVQ (or equivalent) in Cleaning or elementary food hygiene certificate are desirable.

If successful, you will be required to undertake a Disclosure Scotland check, the level of check will be determined by the duties of the post. If you would like further information in relation to the Disclosure Scotland checks, please visit www.disclosurescotland.co.uk .