Salary: £12 per hour + Excellent benefits
Hours: 15 hour per week
2a Court Road is a purpose-built residential care home that prides itself on its homely, warm environment. It offers a high standard of individualised care to people with learning disability, autism and mental health needs. We are keen to recruit a motivated housekeeper to assist the team in providing a clean, safe environment with the people we support. You will work with an established team and be provided with training and support for you in this role.
The Role: As Housekeeper, your responsibilities will include:
- Carry out all cleaning duties in accordance with the homes cleaning schedule, completing documentation as required.
- Ensure that all areas are well presented and maintained in good condition.
- Develop and maintain positive relationships with all residents, family, visitors and colleagues.
- To shampoo carpets as required.
- To clean all equipment used and report all damaged equipment to a manager.
- To observe COSHH and other health & safety regulations including infection control.
- To attend relevant learning opportunities and team meetings when required.
- Support staff to manage the safe storing and ordering of COSHH stock products.
You: The successful Housekeeper will:
- Enjoy working with people; be flexible and a team player
- Have a willingness to learn and develop new skills to enhance the lives of the people we support and provide you with job satisfaction.
- Have experience of doing industrial laundry and the equipment to undertake it
- Be committed to delivering a high quality service and to support the aims of the Trust
- Have the ability to work on own initiative and be self-motivated
- Know what it means to be dignified and be respectful of the PWS and their home.
At Milestones Trust we recognise that without the hard work, commitment and passion of our staff, we wouldn’t be the charity that we are today. In return, we are committed to rewarding you with a competitive pay and benefits package including:
- 30 days annual leave entitlement
- Company pension scheme, to help grow your retirement pot
- Learning and development opportunities to help you to build your career, including a comprehensive induction programme, and the opportunity to undertake further qualifications
- Health Cash Plan on completion of probation giving you access to a minimum of £695 cash back for health treatments e.g. dental, therapies, optical, maternity/paternity, NHS prescriptions etc.
- Generous Occupational Maternity/Paternity pay
- Get paid when you want – access your money as you earn it and request your earnings before payday using Dayforce Wallet
- Access to an Employee Discount Platform from day one, with discounts and cashback for hundreds of retailers
- An employee referral scheme that allows you to earn points that can be converted to cash for family members or friends that you point in Milestones’ direction.
- Be part of a growing and very knowledgeable team.
We pride ourselves with being able to offer staff opportunities to develop and progress their careers within the Trust.
This is an on-going advert and interviews will be held on an ad-hoc basis until sufficient applications have been received.
Please be advised that we are unable to offer sponsorship through the Skilled Worker VISA route as part of your application.
Please refer to our Refer a Friend policy for full details of eligibility and terms.
Milestones Trust is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all the individuals that it supports, it expects the same commitment from all employees. If successful at interview an enhanced DBS check will take place.
