Housekeeping Assistant

Overview

The role of Housekeeping Assistant at Avery Healthcare involves ensuring that all standards of cleanliness and laundry are maintained in the care home. The successful candidate will be part of a team responsible for delivering high-quality housekeeping and laundry services to residents, while treating them with dignity and respect.

Your focus as a Housekeeping Assistant will be to work as part of a team, ensuring that all standards of cleanliness and laundry are maintained in the home. You will operate according to our standard operating procedures for housekeeping and laundry, ensuring that hotel service standards are maintained.

Package

Description:

Shift details:
Days including weekends

• Carrying out all cleaning duties in accordance with worksheet instructions.
• Understanding the cleaning requirements of different surfaces and coverings and the properties of cleaning materials, ensuring that all areas are well presented and maintained in good condition.
• Ensuring that all residents are treated with dignity and respect and that their personal space and belongings are always respected.

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Avery Healthcare is one of the UK s largest providers of luxury elderly care homes, with a vision of  creating meaningful lives together . They are committed to creating a supportive and inspiring environment where employees feel valued and empowered every day, and they offer exceptional care across their growing network of over 100 homes.

To succeed in your application, you will live our values of caring, supportive, honest, respectful and accountable in all you do.

Our ideal candidate must have:

• Knowledge of Health and Safety, particularly Moving and Handling techniques, Fire Safety and COSHH assessments.
• Experience of cleaning laundry in a public setting.
• Demonstrate compassion and commitment to the delivery of high-quality housekeeping/laundry service to residents.
• The ability to be adaptive and flexible to cover a range of responsibilities at short notice.

At Avery, we re not just one of the UK s largest providers of luxury elderly care homes; we are a place where people love to work. We believe that the later years of life should be as enriching as any other, and we re passionate about creating meaningful experiences for our residents and our team alike. With our vision of  creating meaningful lives together,  we proudly offer exceptional care across our growing network of over 100 homes, building a supportive and inspiring environment where employees feel valued and empowered every day.

Join us and see why Avery is the preferred choice for residents and team members alike.

Please note this role will require:

• ADBS Disclosure check, the cost of which will be met by Avery Healthcare.
• Proof of eligibility to work in the UK.

This advert may be withdrawn prior to the advertised deadline depending on the volume of applications received and business needs.

• The ideal candidate should have knowledge of Health and Safety, particularly Moving and Handling techniques, Fire Safety and COSHH assessments, as well as experience of cleaning laundry in a public setting.

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.