Laundry Assistant

**Job Title**: Laundry Assistant

**Reporting to**: Housekeeper

**Job purpose**: To work as part of a team to maintain a high standard of cleanliness of linen, towels and Service Users’ personal clothing, and to ensure an adequate supply of these items at all time.

**Skills, Knowledge & Qualifications**

**Required**:

- Team player
- Satisfactory Policy Check and check against the PoVA list

**Desired**:

- Previous experience relevant to the position
- Good communication skills

**Main responsibilities**

**Laundry**:

- Sort washing into relevant groups, where applicable, and process it through the washer, dryer and iron.
- Keep clean and dirty linen separate within the laundry area.
- The following priorities apply;
- Bedding
- Towels
- Service Users’ personal laundry
- Serviettes
- Tea Towels
- Return the Care Centres washing to the linen cupboard and the kitchen
- Perform minor repairs to Service Users’ clothing
- Any clothes that are not marked should be marked and placed in the appropriate boxes after they have been laundered
- Return the Service Users’ personal clothing to their rooms and put away neatly

**Communication**:

- Participate in Staff and Service Users meetings as required

**Training & Development**:

- Attend mandatory training days/courses, on or off site, as and when required
- Maintain and improve professional knowledge and competence
- You will be expected from time to time to assist in new staff members induction.

**Health & Safety**:

- Ensure the laundry room is clean and tidy. On a daily basis; wash down washers, dryers and laundry bags; clean lint collectors; mop floors
- Use appropriate protective clothing when dealing with soiled or infected linen
- Ensure stator Health & Safety standards in the laundry area
- Report immediately to the Home manager or Person in Charge any illness of an infectious nature or accident incurred by a Service Users, colleague, self or another
- Understand and ensure the implementation of the Care Centres Health & Safety policy, and Emergency and Fire procedures
- Report to the Home Manager, Handyperson or Person in Charge any faulty appliances, damaged furniture. Equipment or any potential hazard
- Promote safe working practice in the Care Centre.

**Infection Control**
- It is your responsibility to read and understand the homes Infection control Policy and to ask questions that you may not understand?
- Complete the homes Infection Control Training
- Report any infection control issues immediately to your Home Manager, alert your person in charge.
- Share your knowledge and understanding of Infection Control with your work Colleagues to ensure the safety of all staff, visitors and residents.

**Safeguarding**
- It is every staff members responsibility to ensure that they have read and understood the homes Safeguarding Policy, and to ask questions for any areas they do not understand.
- Every staff member must complete the homes Safeguarding training
- Staff have an obligation to all residents to report any incidents that they feel may be a safeguarding issue to their manager or senior staff.
- It is every staffs responsibility to know the process for reporting safeguarding concerns to the local safeguarding teams, Contact numbers for this should be found posted around your home, if you cannot find them it is your responsibility to ask.

**General**:

- Promote and ensure the good reputation of the Care Centre and Bondcare
- Ensure that all information of confidential nature gained in the course of duty is not divulged to third parties
- Notify the Home manager or the Person in Charge as soon as possible of you inability to report for duty and also on your return to work from all periods of absence
- Ensure the security of the Care Centre is maintained at all times
- Adhere to all Company policies and procedures within the defined timescales
- Ensure all equipment is clean and well maintained
- Carry out any other tasks that may be reasonably assigned to you

This Job Description indicates only the main duties and responsibilities of the post. It is not intended as an exhaustive list.

Bondcare reserves the right to amend this Job Description from time to time, according to business needs. Any changes will be confirmed in writing. Please note that you share with Bondcare the responsibility for making suggestions to alter the scope of your duties and improve the effectiveness of your post.

**Job Type**: Part-time

**Salary**: £10.42 per hour

Expected hours: 16 per week

**Benefits**:

- Discounted or free food
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Referral programme

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift

Ability to Commute:

- Halifax (required)

Ability to Relocate:

- Halifax: Relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person