Domestic Assistant

*£500 NEW STARTER BONUS AVAILABLE

Let your brilliance shine with Sussex Housing & Care.

We have exciting opportunities for people looking for a new career. Perhaps youre looking for work, or have spent recent months reflecting on your life goals?

If youre looking for job satisfaction, to be part of a friendly and supportive team at Oakwood Court care home in Haywards Heath, and to brighten peoples lives, look no further. You dont need to have experience in working in a care home, we will train and support you from the very beginning. We offer a competitive salary, flexible hours, benefits and bonus schemes.

If you share our values;

• to put residents at the heart of everything you do;
• to care about what you do and the impact you have;
• to treat everyone with fairness, dignity, kindness and respect; and
• to make a difference together as one team...

come and #CareWithUs. We are a Real Living Wage employer and we care about our people.

Main Responsibilities:

• Working in designated areas as prescribed on a rotating basis and as instructed by the Home Manager or Head of Care.
• Vacuuming and cleaning residents rooms, the corridors and all communal areas within the home to a high standard.
• Ensuring that the furniture, fittings including furniture, fabric, and equipment are also cleaned and maintained to a high standard.
• Being respectful of residents personal belongings and helping contribute to their upkeep / cleaning (e.g. furniture) and that any objects that are removed for cleaning are replaced in the same position.
• Ensuring the residents are safe whilst carrying out cleaning tasks.

- Ability to recognise residents'rooms and belongings are personal and private
- To demonstrate safe practice
- Good communication skills
- Maintain a polite and courteous manner towards residents, staff and visitors to the home at all times
- Awareness of health and safety and manual handling

Hours of work: 30 hours per week (five shifts per week, including working alternate weekends)

In return, you will have an access to other benefits and bonus schemes. Well give you excellent support and continuous learning and development, as well as free uniform. Sussex Housing & Care is a not for profit organisation which means that we reinvest any financial surplus back into the organisation to benefit our residents and employees.We are Real Living Wage employer.

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