Description
Job title: Housekeeping/Laundry Assistant
Location: Tenterden House Care Home, Lye Lane, St Albans, AL2 3TN
Salary: £12.00 per hour
Contract: Permanent - 35 hours per week
Shift Pattern: Flexibility required including alternate weekends
We make health happen
Here at Bupa we support those when they need it the most. Our care homes are dedicated to delivering person-centred care, supporting independence and honouring choice to help our residents live their best lives.
You’ll help us make health happen by:
1. Always maintaining high standards of laundry within our home
2. Keeping our resident’s looking and feeling great; you will be responsible for washing, drying, ironing and repairing items of clothing as needed
3. Maintaining linen stocks for day to day use around the home, you’ll raise any issues to the Senior Housekeeper as you go
4. You’ll be responsible for maintaining high standards of cleanliness within the home, working closely with our other housekeeping and maintenance staff
5. Always ensuring our residents are kept happy, you will vacuum, mop floors, polish and generally ensure the up-keep of all communal areas and our resident’s bedrooms
6. You’ll maintain housekeeping stocks for day to day use and raise any issues to the Housekeeping Supervisor as you go
Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:
You take pride in ensuring your work is always completed to a high standard and can maintain an organised environment. Often managing multiple requests at once, you’ll be comfortable multitasking and where necessary working with other teams to ensure our residents are kept happy in their home.
Benefits
Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.
Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:
7. My Healthcare - Quick, easy access to support, advice, and treatment for a variety of health-related issues, including remote GP appointments, physiotherapy and mental health support – all available via one phone number 24/7
8. Annual allowance which you can redeem against a menu of Bupa healthcare products, all to the approximate value of £350
9. We offer a sick pay scheme to our frontline teams, as an addition to statutory sick pay, to help provide some reassurance and financial support during longer absences.
10. Free meal on every shift
11. 28 days holiday
12. Long service - For every milestone at Bupa we will reward you with ecards, extra holidays and money!
13. Interest-free annual travel loan to enable the purchase of public transport annual season tickets
14. Wagestream - Have early access to up to 40% of your earned wages within minutes
15. We offer a range of Bupa pension plans – find out more on our career site
16. Parental leave - We have schemes for adoption, birth parents and co parents -find out more on our career site
17. Menopause Plan - Specifically designed to empower women to seek advice, choose their treatment and take control of their health
18. Access to discounts at a wide variety of gyms and fitness facilities across the UK