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Bupa; Letcombe Regis; On-site; GBP 17,000 - 21,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid breaks

Bupa benefits

Flexible hours

Job summary

Bupa Richmond Villages Letcombe Regis invites a dedicated housekeeper to maintain residents' facilities and living spaces to the highest standards, ensuring comfort and safety.

You’ll operate cleaning equipment, manage laundry, report hazards, and collaborate with care teams to support a healthy, welcoming environment for residents and staff. This bank contract offers flexible hours with paid breaks and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• Experience in housekeeping or domestic cleaning roles.
• Basic understanding of infection control, COSHH, and compliance standards.
• Friendly and approachable with strong communication and teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Ensure residents' care home facilities, public areas and individual properties are maintained to the highest cleaning standards.
• Operate vacuum cleaners, floor polishers and carpet shampooers.
• Empty bins regularly and sweep, scrub, wax and polish floors.
• Clean carpets and upholstery; wash woodwork, windows, doors and sills.
• Wash, dry and iron residents' clothing, bedding and communal laundry.
• Report safety hazards to management and ensure Health and Safety standards and COSHH compliance.
• Maintain a safe and clean environment across all areas.

Skills

Housekeeping

Infection control knowledge

COSHH knowledge

Compliance awareness

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Job description

Richmond Villages Letcombe Regis, South Street, Oxfordshire, OX12 9RG

£12.90 per hour - Paid breaks and excellent Bupa benefits

Bank Contract - Flexible hours, only picking up shifts that suit your availability

We make health happen

At Bupa, we offer essential support when it matters most. Richmond Villages Letcombe Regis provides luxury retirement living with personalized care that promotes independence and honours individual choice, allowing our residents to live their best lives. We take pride in our carehome.co.uk review score of 9.6 out of 10.

Our housekeeper is the unsung hero of our award-winning retirement village. With a flair for perfection and a sprinkle of care, they keep our community sparkling and residents beaming with pride.

You'll help us make health happen by:

• Ensuring that our residents' care home facilities, public areas and individual properties are maintained to the highest cleaning standards
• Operating vacuum cleaners, floor polishers and carpet shampooers
• Emptying bins regularly
• Sweeping, scrubbing, waxing and polishing floors
• Cleaning carpets and upholstery and washing woodwork, windows, door panels and sills
• Washing, drying and ironing residents clothing, bedding and communal laundry, including for our on-site care home residents
• Reporting all safety hazards to management, ensuring Health and Safety standards and COSSH are adhered to at all times.

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:

You will ideally bring experience from a housekeeping or domestic cleaning role, along with a basic understanding of infection control, COSHH, and compliance standards. As someone who is friendly and approachable, you will forge enduring professional relationships with colleagues, residents, and their families. Recognizing the importance of a safe working environment, you possess a meticulous attention to detail and take pride in your work. Equipped with strong communication skills, you are adept at collaborating as part of a team, across various functions and services.

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.