Housekeeper

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Housekeeper
Service Name**:Swan House**

Location**:Winslow, **Buckinghamshire, MK**18 3DN**

Salary**:£10.10 PH**

Hours**:18 Hours Per week**

Swan House is a residential care home in Winslow, Buckinghamshire, which is home to 32 older people. We provide a range of care and support service for our residents.

Swan House provides a supportive, friendly, and welcoming home from home environment with regular and varied activities, with a range of organised outings and events.

**Our Housekeeper duties will consist of**:

- Ensuring correct infection control is maintained
- Use, store and service all machinery, appliances and equipment as instructed by the Home Manager
- Responsible for making sure all assigned areas of the home are clean, tidy and neat, including communal areas as well as service user rooms/flats. This will include vacuuming, changing beds and cleaning bedrooms, bathrooms, toilets and lounges, as wellas other duties as directed
- To ensure that the cleaning and domestic services are responsive to the needs of the residents and do not infringe upon their privacy
- To assist in the preparation and serving of all meals and to ensure that the catering service is responsive to the needs of those receiving meals, (if required)
- To respect the confidential nature of personal information
- To use and store all cleaning materials and domestic supplies in accordance with COSHH regulations so that waste is minimised, materials and supplies can be accounted for, and accidents are avoided

**Our Housekeeper needs**:

- Capability of undertaking manual handling tasks as a core requirement
- Basic literacy & numeracy
- Ability to work flexibly, responding to the needs of the service, ensuring that the home has staff cover, 365 days of the year
- Demonstrate an awareness and understanding of the importance of confidentiality
- Demonstrate an understanding of Health & Safety regulations including COSHH and ow it relates to the nature of the post applied for

**Our Housekeeper Benefits**:

- 28 days pro rata for hours worked annual leave per annum, inclusive of bank holidays
- Extensive training as well as support
- Excellent career progression
- Extensive access and support to recognised qualifications
- Access to our employee assistant programme

**Ref: INDBH - If you are passionate, caring and have a positive person-centred approach, then we want to hear from you - Click Apply**
- We are committed to safeguarding for our service users. A satisfactory enhanced disclosure check is required for this post. References will be obtained for all roles._