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Housekeeping Assistant - Bank - Care Home

  • NHS
  • Full Time
  • Exeter
  • 13.38 an hour
NHS

Job Description

Job summary

As a Bank Housekeeping Assistant at a Barchester care home, you'll help to create a warm and homely environment that enables the care home to meet each resident's unique needs. Keeping the home clean and safe is a crucial task, and the role of a Bank Housekeeping Assistant is vital in ensuring everyone can enjoy a clean, tidy, and welcoming environment.

Main duties of the job

The variety of housekeeping and cleaning tasks you carry out will have a direct impact on the residents, their visitors, and all the staff working to support them. You'll need a caring nature, personable approach, and good practical skills. Reliability and attention to detail are also important to make a positive difference. Barchester Healthcare will provide all the training you need to thrive in this role.

About us

Barchester Healthcare is one of the UK's leading healthcare providers, operating over 200 care homes and healthcare facilities across the country. They are committed to delivering high-quality care and support to their residents and patients, and take the growth and development of their staff seriously.

Job responsibilities

ABOUT THE ROLEAs a Bank Housekeeping Assistant at a Barchester care home, you'll help to create a warm and homely environment that enables us to meet each resident's unique needs. Keeping the home clean and safe is no small task, which is why the role of a Bank Housekeeping Assistant is so important. The variety of housekeeping and cleaning tasks you carry out will ensure everyone can enjoy a clean, tidy and welcoming environment. This means you'll have a direct impact on our residents, their visitors and all the staff working to support them.

ABOUT YOUTo join us as a Bank Housekeeping Assistant you'll need a caring nature, personable approach and good practical skills. Just as importantly, you should be reliable and keen to use your attention to detail to make a positive difference. In return we'll provide all the training you need to thrive.

REWARDS PACKAGEAs well as competitive pay, you can look forward to a role that offers true flexibility and plenty of free learning and development opportunities. As one of the UK's leading healthcare providers, we take the growth of everyone who works for us seriously.

As this is a Bank position to provide cover as and when we need it, such as for annual leave or sick leave, the hours and days you work will vary.

If you'd like to use your attention to detail and people skills in an organisation that provides the quality care you'd expect for your loved ones, this is a rewarding place to be.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • No specific qualifications are required, but a caring nature, personable approach, and good practical skills are essential.

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Barchester Healthcare

Address

Barchester Healthcare

Exeter

EX1 3ZU

Employer's website

https://www.barchester.com/ (Opens in a new tab)

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