Hours: Casual
Contract Type: Casual
Service Area: Community Transformation
Department: Residential Services
We are looking for a Housekeeper to join our Residential Services Team and work across all 5 residential care homes within Bath and North East Somerset Council on a Casual basis.
Assisting other colleagues in promoting and maintaining a supportive living environment to meet the needs of vulnerable older adults including those with dementia and other cognitive impairments.
Carry out domestic tasks which maintain a high standard of cleanliness and tidiness throughout the care home, taking into account the wishes of services users. This will include:
- Cleaning bedrooms, bathrooms and communal areas
- Making beds
- Operating cleaning equipment, e.g. vacuum cleaners, steam cleaners
- Undertake a laundry service for residents and a general laundry service for the care home. This will include:
- Sorting and washing laundry
- Ironing
- Operating laundry equipment, e.g. washers and dryers, irons
- Cleaning soft furnishings within the home
- Undertake general dining-room/servery tasks, e.g. laying/waiting at/clearing tables/simple preparation of food and washing up as required.
- Keep up-to-date written records.
- As part of a team, help to develop appropriate and professional relationships with residents and carers, which value them as individuals, including establishing and maintaining effective communication
Interested to find out more?
If you are interested in this post and require more details after reading the job description or just to chat through the role and what’s involved, please contact the Registered Manager Sue Breakah by email Sue_Breakah@bathnes.gov.uk or telephone the site on 01225 396706 and leave a voicemail. #proudtocarebathnes
To apply
Please use the online application facility.For further information on applying please see “Application Form Help” page on the Jobs website.
We are unable to sponsor candidates for this role under the Home Office Tier 2 points-based system (skilled worker route), therefore you must be able to obtain and provide your own right to work in the UK’. Please refer to the Home Office Right to Work Checklist which provides details of which documents are acceptable. Should you be shortlisted you will be asked to bring your right to work documents with you to your interview so they can be copied and verified at that stage.
As an equal opportunities employer, Bath & North East Somerset Council is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.
We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us.
Safeguarding Statement:
The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable groups and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of this commitment anyone working in a post with children or vulnerable groups will be expected to undertake an Enhanced DBS check with/without barred list checks.
As this post involves working within one of these groups, we will require a Disclosure & Barring Service check and/or subscription to the DBS online service. The suitability of all prospective employees or volunteers will be assessed during the recruitment process in line with this commitment.
Please note the Council operates a policy of prior consideration for roles for any individual on the Council’s at risk register. This means should a redeployee express an interest in this role, providing they meet the essential criteria for the role, they will be interviewed before any shortlisting or interviewing of external candidates.