Housekeeper

**Job Reference**:
261277

**Contract Type**:
Permanent

**Home**:
Icknield Court

**Location**:
Icknield Court, Princes Risborough

**Salary**:
£11.48 p/h

**Closing Date**:
11pm - 18.08.23

**Are you passionate about care? Do you want to finish your day knowing you've made a difference to someone's life?**

**If you answer yes, then we have the career for you**

**About the Role**

The purpose of your new job is to give the highest quality care within our homes. This will include:

- Provide leadership, training, support and motivation to the housekeeping team and ensure we maintain high standards of excellence
- Manage the stock control of all cleaning products, chemicals and laundry
- Responsible for rota management
- Maintaining consistently high standards of cleanliness and ensuring staff are all polite, courteous and look after the home needs,
- Enhancing the lives of our people by providing first class support

**About you**

**Do I need experience? **Yes You must be able to demonstrate a proven track record of supervising and managing a team of housekeeping staff. You must have commercial awareness, and understand the importance of working within costs & departmental budgets. In return, you will always be learning through our innovative training and support programme, giving you the best skills possible to ensure you reach your full potential.

Most importantly you should have good communication skills and to be able to show compassion, respect and patience to the people we support and to live our values.

**Why work for us?**

"I've never enjoyed a job as much as I do this one, working with The Fremantle Trust. We're like a family, it's a great working environment and I'm always learning"
- We are committed to your development, with clear career pathways and training and support to help you reach your goals.
- Competitive pay rate of £11.48 per hour with an enhancement of £4.00 per hour for Bank Holidays
- We provide a fully paid DBS, generous holiday, pension and life assurance
- Corporate induction and training for your care certificate
- We promote a friendly and supportive working environment with flexible shift patterns
- Employee Assistance Programme
- The Fremantle Benefit Hub - provides access to numerous amazing discounts and offers. Deals can be found for insurance, travel, restaurant, shopping, family care, car rental, your favourite local establishments and much more

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closed date.

**About Us**

Established since 1992, we're a charity and not-for-profit organisation that provides care and support for older people and adults with learning disabilities. Today, we have up to 1300 staff supporting over 1,100 residents at services across Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire.

As a care provider we have a duty of care to our service users and employees to ensure we operate in a safe environment. Therefore from time to time we will require you to take part in mandatory health testing and health vaccination programmes.

All Fremantle staff must understand and actively participate in the Safeguarding, Health and Safety and Equality and Diversity policies and procedures to ensure that people who use services, other staff and stakeholders are safe and respected in Fremantle services.

Each staff member must also take joint responsibility with their line manager for their own personal and professional development at work.

**This could be the best job you ever do - so what are you waiting for?**

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