Laundry Assistant

Athena Care Homes; King's Lynn; On-site; GBP 17,000 - 21,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days holiday per year

Blue Light Card & discount platform

Refer a friend scheme

Job summary

Amberley Hall Care Home in King's Lynn is looking for a Laundry Assistant to deliver a high-quality laundry service for residents. You will report to the Head Housekeeper and work a 19-hour rota each week.

The role offers training, a caring team environment, and benefits including holiday entitlement and employee discounts. Prior experience is welcome but not required.

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar position is advantageous, but not essential as full training will be provided.
• A passion for care – we’re looking for a genuinely caring individual who will put the needs of our residents first.
• Excellent communication and customer service skills, as well as high attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that all washing, drying and ironing for residents’ personal clothing and linens are completed with the utmost care.
• Liaise with Head Housekeeper and relatives if clothing needs to be replaced or needs major repairs.
• Liaise with the Head Housekeeper and the care team to ensure that sufficient clean linen is available, and soiled linen is handled in line with infection control policy and dealt with efficiently.
• Ensure that the laundry equipment is routinely cleaned and maintained in line with policy.

Skills

Caring attitude

Excellent communication

Customer service

Attention to detail

Job description

As a Laundry Assistant at Amberley Hall Care Home, you will be responsible for ensuring a high-quality laundry service is delivered within the home.

About Amberley Hall Care Home:
Award-winning Amberley Hall is one of the top residential care homes in Kings Lynn. At Amberley Hall we pride ourselves on our beautiful, extensive gardens filled with pear trees, our state-of-the-art cinema and our hair and beauty salon.

All of our team at the purpose-built, 106-bedroom care home are ready to welcome residents with their compassionate and caring attitudes.

About the role:
Reporting to the Head Housekeeper, the Laundry Assistant is responsible for providing an efficient laundry service in line with the residents’ choice around the laundry service they wish to receive.

Salary:
£12.71 per hour.

Shift Patterns:
19 hours per week, worked on a rota basis from Monday to Sunday.

Home Location:
Baldock Drive, King's Lynn, England, PE30 3DQ.

Key Duties & Responsibilities:

• Ensure that all washing, drying and ironing for residents’ personal clothing and linens are completed with the utmost care.
• Liaise with Head Housekeeper and relatives if clothing needs to be replaced or needs major repairs.
• Liaise with the Head Housekeeper and the care team to ensure that sufficient clean linen is available, and soiled linen is handled in line with infection control policy and dealt with efficiently.
• Ensure that the laundry equipment is routinely cleaned and maintained in line with policy.

Training, Skills & Experience Required:

• Experience in a similar position is advantageous, but not essential as full training will be provided.
• A passion for care – we’re looking for a genuinely caring individual who will put the needs of our residents first.
• Excellent communication and customer service skills, as well as high attention to detail.

What we can offer:

• Fully comprehensive induction.
• Competitive salary, plus enhancements on bank holidays.
• 28 days of holiday per year.
• Free Blue Light Card & access to the Blue Light discount platform.
• Refer a friend scheme.

About Athena:

Athena Care Homes are a family run business with seven homes across East Anglia. We have care homes in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, Kings Lynn (West Norfolk) & Ipswich (Suffolk).

We want to be the first choice for high quality residential, nursing and dementia care, leaving a positive legacy within our communities.

Our care homes are managed by amazing and passionate people, including strong leadership by our home managers with dedicated care,clinical, hospitality and activities teams to provide exceptional care and experience, achieving brilliant outcomes for people in our care.

We hold our values close to our hearts and ensure that team members throughout each of our residential and nursing homes understand them and what importance they hold. We approach everything we do with thought, and we deliver with passion.