This is a permanent Housekeeper Assistant role at Avery Healthcare in Eastbourne, offering a salary of £12.25 per hour. The role involves maintaining high standards of cleanliness and laundry in the care home, while treating residents with dignity and respect.
Main duties of the job
As a Housekeeper Assistant, your focus 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 Avery Healthcare's standard operating procedures for housekeeping and laundry, ensuring that hotel service standards are maintained. Other responsibilities will include carrying out all cleaning duties in accordance with worksheet instructions, understanding the cleaning requirements of different surfaces and coverings, and ensuring that all residents are treated with dignity and respect.
About us
Avery Healthcare is one of the UK's largest providers of luxury elderly care homes. They are passionate about creating meaningful experiences for their residents and team members, offering exceptional care across their growing network of over 100 homes. Avery Healthcare is committed to building a supportive and inspiring environment where employees feel valued and empowered every day.
Job responsibilities
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.
Other responsibilities will include:
1. Carrying out all cleaning duties in accordance with worksheet instructions.
2. 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.
3. Ensuring that all residents are treated with dignity and respect and that their personal space and belongings are always respected.
About you
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:
1. Knowledge of Health and Safety, particularly Moving and Handling techniques, Fire Safety, and COSHH assessments.
2. Experience of cleaning laundry in a public setting.
3. Demonstrate compassion and commitment to the delivery of high-quality housekeeping/laundry service to residents.
4. The ability to be adaptive and flexible to cover a range of responsibilities at short notice.
Minimum Requirements
Please note this role will require:
1. ADBS Disclosure check, the cost of which will be met by Avery Healthcare.
2. Proof of eligibility to work in the UK.
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.
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