Housekeeping Assistant

Bupa; Southborough; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 21,000; Part time

Job summary

Bupa's Fountains Lodge Care Home in Tunbridge Wells is seeking a dedicated Housekeeping Assistant. This part-time role offers 22 hours per week with daytime shifts, at a rate of £13.30 per hour, supporting a warm, resident-centered environment.

You will uphold high cleanliness standards, vacuum and mop, assist with stock, and work with colleagues to ensure residents feel at home. The home provides dementia-friendly, adapted spaces and a welcoming team focused on compassionate care.

Qualifications

• Pride in delivering high-standard, neat work and organised spaces.
• Able to multitask and coordinate with colleagues to support residents.

Responsibilities

• Maintain high cleanliness standards throughout the home with housekeeping and facilities staff.
• Vacuum, mop floors, polish and keep communal areas and resident bedrooms tidy.
• Manage housekeeping supplies and report stock issues to the supervisor.

Skills

Attention to detail

Organised

Multitasking

Team collaboration

Job description

Housekeeping Assistant

Location: Fountains Lodge Care Home, 13 - 17 London Road, Southborough, Tunbridge Wells TN4 0RJ

Contract: Permanent - Part Time

Hours: 22Part Time Hours available on Days

Salary: £13.30 per hour

CQC rating: Good

Carehome.co.uk rating: 9.7 / 10

About the home

Fountains Lodge provides personalised nursing and residential care to people living with cognitive impairments, including dementia care. The purpose built home in Tunbridge Wells offers short stays too (including palliative care), to help both carers and their loved ones at times when they need a break or a little extra support. All bedrooms are tastefully decorated and offer en suite facilities, while some come with patio doors providing direct garden access. It also has a suite suitable for couples. The home has its own café as well as lounges and private dining areas for family and friends to come and enjoy when visiting their loved ones or celebrating a birthday or anniversary together. Situated in Southborough, the home is a few minutes from all its amenities - shops, cafes, restaurants and pubs, and has good transport and road links. We take great care to focus on the person. Its important for residents to feel at home, so it creates a friendly environment with an individually appropriate balance of care and independence. Enjoying food is an important part of life. The chefs create well-crafted menus made with the freshest ingredients and try to cater for all ethnicity groups. Soon after a resident arrives at Fountains Lodge, we discuss their personal preferences and dietary needs with them. There's a real sense of community at the home. We work to discover what residents enjoy doing and the home's social calendar is organised around those interests. So whether our residents already has a hobby or would like to take up a new one, there are lots of exciting activities to get involved in.

We make health happen

Here at Bupa we support those when they need it the most. Our care homes are dedicated to delivering person-centred care, supporting independence and honouring choice to help our residents live their best lives. Housekeeping Assistants have a knack for tidying up and a passion for helping others. They make a real difference every day by creating a warm and welcoming environment for our residents. Our care home is a place where every detail counts, and our team work together to ensure our residents feel right at home.

You’ll help us make health happen by:

• You’ll be responsible for maintaining high standards of cleanliness within the home, working closely with our other housekeeping and maintenance staff
• Always ensuring our residents are kept happy, you will vacuum, mop floors, polish and generally ensure the up-keep of all communal areas and our resident's bedrooms
• You’ll maintain housekeeping stocks for day to day use and raise any issues to the Housekeeping Supervisor as you go

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:

You take pride in ensuring your work is always completed to a high standard and can maintain an organised environment. Often managing multiple requests at once, you'll be comfortable multitasking and where necessary, working with other teams to ensure our residents are kept happy in their home.

Benefits

Why Bupa?

We're a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to "Be you at Bupa", we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That's why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role.

We'll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

** Please note, this role is not at or above RQF Level 3 and is not included under the UK's Points Based Immigration System for sponsorship by an employer.

Time Type: Part time

Job Area: Care Home - Facilities & Home Support

Locations: Fountains Lodge