Housekeeping Assistant

TieTalent; Haywards Heath; On-site; GBP 19,000 - 23,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Referral bonus

Blue Light discount card

Free uniform

Continuous learning and development

Job summary

A care home organization in Haywards Heath is seeking a Housekeeping Assistant to ensure cleanliness and support residents' well-being. No experience is necessary as training is provided. Flexible hours, a competitive salary, and benefits are offered. Join a friendly team and make a positive impact on residents' lives.

Qualifications

• Ability to recognize residents' rooms and belongings as personal and private.
• Good communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Maintain a polite and courteous manner toward residents, staff, and visitors.

Responsibilities

• Maintain cleanliness in designated areas as instructed by management.
• Handle residents' laundry and ensure proper washing and drying.
• Ensure residents' safety while performing cleaning tasks.

Skills

Good communication skills

Awareness of Health and Safety

Ability to recognize personal belongings

Demonstrate safe practices

Job description

Overview

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If youre looking for job satisfaction, to be part of a friendly and supportive team at Oakwood Court care home in Haywards Heath, and to brighten peoples lives, look no further. You dont need to have experience in working in a care home, we will train and support you from the very beginning. We offer a competitive salary, flexible hours, benefits and bonus schemes.

If you share our values; to put residents at the heart of everything you do; to care about what you do and the impact you have; to treat everyone with fairness, dignity, kindness and respect; and to make a difference together as one team... come and #CareWithUs. We are a Real Living Wage employer and we care about our people.

Main Responsibilities

• Cleaning responsibilities:
  • Working in designated areas as prescribed on a rotating basis and as instructed by the Care Home Manager or Deputy Home Manager.
  • Vacuuming and cleaning residents rooms, the corridors and all communal areas within the care home to a high standard.
  • Ensuring the furniture, fittings including furniture, fabric, and equipment are also cleaned and maintained to a high standard.
  • Being respectful of residents personal belongings and helping contribute to their upkeep / cleaning (e.g. furniture) and that any objects that are removed for cleaning are replaced in the same position.
  • Ensuring the residents are safe whilst carrying out cleaning tasks.
• Laundry responsibilities:
  • Collecting the residents personal laundry as per the rota in the morning and return to the residents the same day or informing residents of any outstanding laundry.
  • Ensuringthat all clothes washed are dried correctly using the tumble dryer, ensuring that it is set at the correct temperature depending on the type of fabric.
  • You will be responsible for ironing clothes and linen ensuring that that iron is set to the correct temperature and not left unattended
  • Collecting and sorting soiled linen into the correct categories ensuring that soiled items are not washed with unsoiled items.

Candidate Requirements

• Ability to recognise residents'rooms and belongings are personal and private
• Have an awareness of Health and Safety, COSHH regulations and manual handling
• To demonstrate safe practices
• Good communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Maintain a polite and courteous manner towards residents, staff and visitors to the home at all times

Full and Part-time opportunities, Flexible Hours Available

In return, you will have an access to referral bonus, access to Blue Light discount card and bonus schemes. Well provide you with support, guidance and a caring working environment,continuous learning and development, as well as free uniform. Sussex Housing & Care is a not for profit organisation which means that we reinvest any financial surplus back into the organisation to benefit our residents and employees. We are Real Living Wage employer.