Housekeeper

Job Title: Housekeeper

Reporting to: Home Manager

Job purpose: To work as part of a team to maintain a high standard of cleanliness and hygiene within the Care Centre, whilst ensuring a safe, comfortable environment at all times.

**Skills, Knowledge & Qualifications**

**Required**:

- Team player
- Satisfactory Policy Check and check against the PoVA list
- Ability to work on own initiative

**Desired**:

- Experience/qualification in care for relevant Service User category
- **Main responsibilities**_

**Cleaning**

**- Daily cleaning**
- Empty waste bins and wipe out
- Vacuum throughout
- Shake out cushions
- Clean dining rooms/lounges/toilets
- Clean taps and sinks
- Clean soap dispenser outlets
- Clean toothbrush holders
- Spot clean all floorings
- Wash all bathroom/toilet/en-suite floors

**- Weekly cleaning**
- Polish all mirrors
- Clean all pipe work in toilets
- Dust handrails and radiators
- Move all mobile furniture (including beds and chairs) and vacuum and dust beneath/behind
- Wash out metal wastepaper bins
- Dust and polish furniture and windowsills
- Wash lino floors
- Shampoo carpets as requested by Home Manager
- Week one Dust light bulbs and fittings
- Week two Dust curtain rails
- Week three Dust pictures
- Week four En-suites deep clean
- Restock toiletries, soaps, towels etc as and when required

**Communication**
- Participate in Staff and Service User meetings as required
- Complete all relevant documentation

Budgetary/Financial Control
- Ensure that all commodities used in and around the Care Centre are sensibly conserved by all Staff Members

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

Health & Safety
- Adhere to the Care Centres disposal of waste policy
- 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**
- Ensure that all existing stocks are maintained in a safe and tidy environment and reorder as and when required
- Ensure that all information of confidential nature gained in the course of duty is not divulged to third parties
- Notify the Home Manager or Person in Charge as soon as possible of your inability to report for duty and also on your return to work from all periods of absence
- Promote and ensure the good reputation of the Care Centre and Bondcare
- 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.

The rota pattern is 6 days (including the weekend and one day off in the week) the first week followed by 4 days the next (excluding the weekends).

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.

**Salary**: From £10.42 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Discounted or free food
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Referral programme

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