Domestic Assistant

Ann's Care Homes are a family run business established in 1994.

Since its inception, the company has enjoyed a longstanding reputation for the delivery of quality care and for their teams of dedicated, trained staff who put clients’ needs at the heart of everything they do.

We at Ann’s aspire to be the best at everything that we do. We want families and carers to choose Ann’s because they have confidence in our reputation for providing a high quality service.
- **We are recruiting for domestic assistants to join our team in Ashgrove Care Home. This is 35 hours per week**_
- Ensure that all the people who use our service have their dietary requirements met Report any faults in the kitchen to the Chef
- Respond to or refer to the Chef any questions or concerns expressed by anyone using the service or staff within the service
- Maintain a clean and presentable kitchen
- Adhere with all Embrace policies and procedures, including compliance with Health and Safety, Security regulations
- Keep up-to-date with any changes to policies, procedures or regulations that affect the service
- Take responsibility for personal development and attendance at training both mandatory and service specific
- Report any incidents of abuse, mistreatment or non-compliance within the service to the Service Manager or next available management level
- Fulfil any duties requested by the Chef
- Ensure that any requests from the people that use the service are escalated to the Chef
- Take responsibility for the safe working environment for self, colleagues and the people who use our service

**Key Activities**:

- Maintain high standards of cleanliness and tidiness of the service and Laundry causing mínimal disruption to our services users and their care;
- Practice safe systems of work eg movining & handling by assesing the risk and following best practice
- Use a variety of cleaning products paying particular attention to COSHH regulated products;
- Understand the cleaning requirements for different surfaces and equipment
- Communicate and engage effectively with our service users, their families and colleagues, reflecting good interpersonal and working relationship skills at all times
- Be Health and Safety aware, to ensure the safety of our services users and colleagues. Understand your responsibilities under the Health & safety and fire safety Acts
- Ensure the safe and tidy storage of supplies
- Report any faults with equipment to include requirement for maintenance/replacement

**Experience/Qualification**:

- Experience within a care home setting, and with dementia care is preferred but not essential.

**Benefits of working with Ann’s Care Homes as a Kitchen Assistant**:

- Variety of shift patterns to suit individual requirements (dependent on staffing and requirements of the service)
- Working in a fast paced and constantly changing environment
- A friendly dedicated one to one service supporting staff 24/7 365 days of the year
- Free training, Free Uniform, Free Access NI**:

- Four weekly pay
- Tailor-made software system

We look forward to hearing from you

Ann’s Care Homes are an Equal Opportunities Employer

REF: IND006

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: Up to £10.42 per hour

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability

Application question(s):

- What qualities do you think you could bring to the role?
- Do you live in Newry or are you able to travel to Ashgrove Care Home
- Do you have previous experience working in a similar role?

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person