Domestic Assistant – Ashford (Flexi contract)

Location: Ashford

Status: Permanent, Zero hour flexi contract

Salary: £12.21 per hour

Closing date: 06/10/2025

Pilgrims Hospices is looking for friendly, Flexi Contract Domestic Assistants to join our team to help keep our hospice clean for all those who work, visit and stay at our Ashford hospice site.

The Role

As a Flexi Domestic Assistant you will work as part of a team to ensure our hospice environment remains clean and pleasant, covering when team members are on leave or sick. Your main responsibilities will include:

• Various cleaning duties to a high standard
• Replenishing washroom supplies
• Basic record keeping
• Reporting of any defects or damage found on our site
• Safely disposing of waste
• Attending team meetings

The post holder must ensure that cleaning is completed to a high standard, in line with standards expected within a healthcare environment.

Working Arrangements

These roles will be part of our flexi bank and will not have a set amount of hours. You will be contacted in advance to cover any annual leave or sickness. This role is perfect for anyone looking to pick up shifts as and when to suit your work/life.

You will be based at Pilgrims Hospice Ashford. Working patterns for shifts are usually between Monday-Sunday with start times 7.30am or 13.30. You will be provided with on-site parking, a uniform and subsidised meals during your work day.

About you:

To be successful in this role you should:

• Have a friendly and approachable attitude
• Be able to work well as part of a team or on your own
• Approach tasks quickly and efficiently
• Have a flexible attitude to work in a team rota, sometimes changing days as service requires

About us:

As an award-winning employer, Pilgrims provides end of life care services to patients and their families across east Kent.

Our commitment is to provide open, compassionate care and expertise for patients and their families – both in the community and in-patient units.

Our Vision

“Of a community where people with a terminal illness and their family and friends are supported and empowered to live well in mind and body until the very last moment of their life”.

We recognise that our workforce is integral to the delivery of  our Vision and our organisational and charitable aims. Pilgrims Hospices continues to create a highly skilled, motivated, engaged and healthy workforce by providing an environment where staff and volunteers feel highly motivated to perform their roles to a consistently high standard, and actively role model our organisational behaviours and values.

To achieve  our Vision, we have a shared set of values and behaviours that enable us to be the people and the charity that patients and their loved ones need us to be. They form 

, which guides us in our daily working and decision making:

Compassionate We treat everyone with compassion and care

Open We communicate openly, honestly and effectively

Dynamic We are dynamic, improving and developing our service

Empowered We empower people to achieve their outcomes

Our Benefits

As an Employer of Choice we are committed supporting our employees and volunteers through both a holistic benefits package, but also through wellbeing and work/life balance.

Our hospices offer:

• Friendly and highly professional working environments alongside passionate people
• Opportunities for professional development through a range of extensive learning
• A workplace pension scheme. Those joining us from the NHS may retain eligibility to membership of the NHS pension scheme
• Subsidised meals
• A good work-life balance and realistic working hours
• Financial discounts, provided through the Blue Light Card scheme
• A sense of achievement in supporting a worthwhile cause
• A sense of wellbeing

We invest in our employees, which is one of the key things that makes us an award-winning employer of choice!

How to apply

To learn more about this role, please download the full job description document as attached. Please note this job description would be for a full time employee.

If you are interested in applying for the role and wish to join our passionate team, please complete the attached application form.