Housekeeping Assistant

Bupa Global; Tunbridge Wells; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Tunbridge Wells seeks a Housekeeping Assistant to maintain high cleanliness standards in the care home. Responsibilities include ensuring residents’ comfort through a tidy environment and collaborating with staff to meet multiple requests. Ideal candidates will take pride in their work and possess strong attention to detail. This position offers competitive benefits including healthcare access and holiday allowance.

Benefits

Free meal on every shift

28 days holiday

Interest-free annual travel loan

Gym and fitness discounts

Parental leave schemes

Sick pay scheme

Qualifications

• Pride in maintaining high cleanliness standards.
• Ability to manage multiple requests simultaneously.
• Comfortable working with other teams.

Responsibilities

• Maintain high standards of cleanliness.
• Vacuum, mop, and polish communal areas.
• Maintain housekeeping stocks and communicate issues.
• Create a warm environment for residents.

Skills

Tidiness

Multitasking

Teamwork

Attention to detail

Job description

Overview

Fountains Lodge Care Home, 13 - 17 London Road, Southborough, Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN4 0RJ. CQC rating: Good. 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, making it ideally located for visiting family and friends. Staff take great care to focus on the person. It’s 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, staff discuss their personal preferences and dietary needs with them. There’s a real sense of community at the home. The staff work to discover what residents enjoy doing and the home\'s social calendar is organised around those interests. So whether your loved one 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.

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

• My Healthcare - Quick, easy access to support, advice, and treatment for a variety of health-related issues, including remote GP appointments, physiotherapy and mental health support – all available via one phone number 24/7
• Annual allowance which you can redeem against a menu of Bupa healthcare products, all to the approximate value of £350
• We offer a sick pay scheme to our frontline teams, as an addition to statutory sick pay, to help provide some reassurance and financial support during longer absences.
• Free meal on every shift
• 28 days holiday
• Long service - For every milestone at Bupa we will reward you with ecards, extra holidays and money!
• Interest-free annual travel loan to enable the purchase of public transport annual season tickets
• Wagestream - Have early access to up to 40% of your earned wages within minutes
• We offer a range of Bupa pension plans – find out more on our career site
• Parental leave - We have schemes for adoption, birth parents and co parents -find out more on our career site
• Menopause Plan - Specifically designed to empower women to seek advice, choose their treatment and take control of their health
• Access to discounts at a wide variety of gyms and fitness facilities across the UK

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.

Unposting Date

Ongoing

Care Home Postcode TN4 0RJ

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