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Join Our Community at Elizabeth House!

Role: Elizabeth House Residential Home, Poole BH12 4PX

Pay: £13.35 per hour

Hours: 40 hours per week, to include alternate weekend working

Shift Pattern: 08:30 and 17:00

Come and join our team at Elizabeth House, a 43 bed residential and dementia care home in Poole.
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You’ll be able to support our residents in a safe and caring environment where they can live their lives as if in the comfort of their own home.

Key Responsibilities:

Managing the daily delivery of all housekeeping and laundry services including supervision of the housekeeping and laundry team.
Ensuring that cleaning, laundry and domestic equipment is maintained by staff in accordance with manufacturing instructions and health & safety guidelines.
All minor faults and repairs are reported promptly and recorded.
Ensuring that rooms for viewing are presented to a high standard.
Preparing schedules which identify and allocate responsibility for daily, weekly, monthly, annual and cyclical cleaning / maintenance tasks.
Ordering stock of cleaning products and PPE including ensuring all First Aid boxes are appropriately stocked and sited in accessible areas in the event of an emergency.

Who we are looking for:

Previous experience within a care home setting is not essential – but we want you to come in and enjoy housekeeping!
A real desire to create a fresh and welcoming environment for residents, staff and visitors to enjoy.
Flexible in the hours that you work and happy to join in as part of a larger housekeeping team.

Your Rewards and Benefits

\nAt Care South, we really value all our staff, whatever the role. We offer a stimulating and incredibly rewarding career. We celebrate all our staff every year through the Care South Stars Awards.

\nAs a not-for-profit charity, our focus isn’t on our owners or shareholders its very firmly on those in our care and those that care for them. We are constantly looking at ways to improve the reward and recognition of all our amazing people within the Care South Team. Our current benefits package includes: -

\n•\tOnline/retail discounts – Blue Light Card.
\n•\tPaid induction and training.
\n•\tEmployee referral bonus scheme.
\n•\tFree DBS check.
\n•\tContributory pension scheme.
\n•\tLife insurance.
\n•\tNMC pin fees paid by us.
\n•\tStaff association.
\n•\tLocal staff reward programme
\n•\tOnsite learning and development team.
\n•\tCareer progression.
\n•\tCompetitive pay rates.
\n•\tFlexible working hours.
\n•\tEmployee assistance and wellbeing programmes.

\nWhat You Need to Know

\n•\tYou must be 18 years or older.
\n•\tWe are unable to offer Visa Sponsorship.

\nReady to Join Us?

\nIf you’re kind, caring, and ready to make a difference, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today and become part of something truly special.

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