Avery Healthcare is one of the UK's largest providers of luxury elderly care homes, committed to creating meaningful experiences for both residents and employees. They are looking for a warm, enthusiastic, and dedicated Housekeeping Assistant to join their award-winning team.
Main duties of the job
As a Housekeeping 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's standard operating procedures for housekeeping and laundry, maintaining hotel service standards. Other responsibilities include carrying out cleaning duties, understanding surface and material requirements, and treating residents with dignity and respect.
About us
Avery Healthcare is a leading provider of luxury elderly care homes in the UK. They are passionate about creating meaningful experiences for their residents and employees, offering exceptional care across their growing network of over 100 homes. Avery is known for its 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:
* 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.
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:
* 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.
Job requirements
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.
Person Specification
The ideal candidate should have knowledge of Health and Safety, particularly Moving and Handling techniques, Fire Safety, and COSHH assessments, experience of cleaning laundry in a public setting, and the ability to demonstrate compassion and commitment to the delivery of high-quality housekeeping/laundry service to residents.
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.
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