Housekeeping Assistant - Bank - Care Home

NHS; Bedlington; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading UK care provider seeks a Bank Housekeeping Assistant to maintain cleanliness and create a warm environment in a care home. This role offers flexibility and essential training while positively impacting residents and staff. No specific qualifications necessary, just a caring nature and practical skills required.

Benefits

Competitive pay

Free learning and development opportunities

Flexible working hours

Qualifications

• No specific qualifications required; training provided.
• Caring nature and practical skills essential.
• Attention to detail and reliability sought.

Responsibilities

• Perform cleaning and housekeeping tasks for residents.
• Maintain a clean, safe, and welcoming environment.
• Support residents, visitors, and staff in a care setting.

Skills

Caring nature

Personable approach

Practical skills

Attention to detail

Job description

Housekeeping Assistant - Bank - Care Home

As a Bank Housekeeping Assistant at a Barchester care home, you'll help to create a warm and homely environment that enables the care home to meet each resident's unique needs. Keeping the home clean and safe is a crucial task, and the role of a Bank Housekeeping Assistant is essential in ensuring everyone can enjoy a clean, tidy, and welcoming environment. This position will have a direct impact on the residents, their visitors, and all the staff working to support them.

Main duties of the job

The Bank Housekeeping Assistant role involves a variety of housekeeping and cleaning tasks to maintain a clean, safe, and welcoming environment for the care home's residents, visitors, and staff. This includes duties such as cleaning, tidying, and ensuring the proper functioning of the home's facilities. The role requires a caring nature, a personable approach, and good practical skills, as well as attention to detail to make a positive difference.

About us

Barchester Healthcare is one of the UK's leading healthcare providers, operating a network of care homes across the country. The company is committed to providing high-quality care and support to its residents, and takes the growth and development of its employees seriously, offering a range of learning and development opportunities.

Job responsibilities

ABOUT THE ROLEAs a Bank Housekeeping Assistant at a Barchester care home, you'll help to create a warm and homely environment that enables us to meet each resident's unique needs. Keeping the home clean and safe is no small task, which is why the role of a Bank Housekeeping Assistant is so important. The variety of housekeeping and cleaning tasks you carry out will ensure everyone can enjoy a clean, tidy and welcoming environment. This means you'll have a direct impact on our residents, their visitors and all the staff working to support them.

ABOUT YOUTo join us as a Bank Housekeeping Assistant you'll need a caring nature, personable approach and good practical skills. Just as importantly, you should be reliable and keen to use your attention to detail to make a positive difference. In return we'll provide all the training you need to thrive.

REWARDS PACKAGEAs well as competitive pay, you can look forward to a role that offers true flexibility and plenty of free learning and development opportunities. As one of the UK's leading healthcare providers, we take the growth of everyone who works for us seriously.

As this is a Bank position to provide cover as and when we need it, such as for annual leave or sick leave, the hours and days you work will vary.

If you'd like to use your attention to detail and people skills in an organisation that provides the quality care you'd expect for your loved ones, this is a rewarding place to be.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• No specific qualifications are required for this role, but a caring nature, personable approach, and good practical skills are essential. The company will provide the necessary training to help the successful candidate thrive in the role.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.