Vacancies

Laundry Assistant

• Job Reference
• SYS-10694
• Location
• Gidds Pond Way, Weavering, Maidstone, Kent
• Job Description
• Laundry_Assistant_2019_v1.pdf

• Post Code
• ME14 5FY
• Min Pay Rate
• 9.52
• Max Pay Rate
• 9.52
• Role Highlights

• Invicta Court Care Home 

  Laundry Assistant 

  £9.52 per hour 

  Full and Part Time hours available 

• Job Copy

• Care UK is one of the UK’s leading providers of health and social care services. Join our Hotel Services team and you’ll be playing a vital part in making residents’ lives better on a daily basis.

  Whatever role you take on, you’ll be working as part of a close-knit team to improve the daily lives of the people we care for. You’ll be dedicated to achieving the highest standards and to providing the ultimate in customer service. You will also be flexible, reliable and love working as part of a team.

  As a Laundry Assistant you’ll launder and iron our residents’ clothing to the highest standards, putting it away tidily and ensuring wardrobes and drawers are always clean and neat.

  Key Responsibilities

  • Carry out all cleaning duties as directed by the Head Housekeeper to the required Company standards. Cleaning duties can be in any area of the nursing home.
  • Ensure that daily and deep cleaning schedules are adhered to.
  • Maintain a high standard of personal presentation and hygiene.
  • Ensure that all cleaning equipment is correctly and safely used and kept in a safe condition. Report any defect to the Home Manager.
  • Carry out any other reasonable instructions of the Home Manager.
  • To be sensitive to the privacy and individual needs of the residents.
  • To comply with COSHH regulations.
  • To adhere to infection control polices at all times.
  • To ensure the correct use of PPE.
  • To follow the correct use of colour code systems within the home 
  • Carry out other ad hoc duties as requested by the Head Housekeeper or Home Manager.
  • To ensure all necessary documentation is completed daily.
  • To ensure trolley’s are re-stocked at the end of shift and cleaning cupboards are left clean and tidy

  Skills & Experience

  • Previous cleaning experience
  • Ability to communicate on the telephone
  • Good communication skills both written and verbal
  • Able to carry out instructions accurately.
  • A knowledge of health and safety
  • An understanding of infection control
  • Flexible and reliable attitude to working arrangements
  • Committed to customer care and first class service provision
  • Ability to work alone as well as part of a team
  • Adaptable, friendly, polite, courteous and caring

  Qualifications

  • Basic education, including English and Maths
• Where you'll work

• Our brand new care home in Maidstone is now open. Discover quality, personalised care in luxurious surroundings.

  Invicta Court provides a full range of permanent and short-term care, including residential and nursing care, as well as dementia care and end of life care for up to 75 older people. As well as providing care that’s tailored to your loved one’s unique needs, Invicta Court offers a stunning range of facilities. These include a café, hair and beauty salon, bar and cinema, plus lovely landscaped gardens.

Care UK is committed to ensuring that it employs people with the right mix of talent, skills and potential and will assess every applicant fairly regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, responsibilities for dependents, age, physical/mental disability or offending background. Having a criminal record will not necessarily prevent you from working with us, it will depend on the nature of the role and background of any offence.