Housekeeping Assistant

**Housekeeping Assistant**
(Job Number: RIC02WM)

**Housekeeping Assistant**

**Richmond Villages**

**Richmond Cheltenham, Hatherley Lane, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL51 6PN**

Providing more than just retirement living, Richmond Villages offer an aspirational lifestyle to our residents and our first-class accommodation requires a first-class service. We’re looking for a Housekeeping Assistant at Richmond Cheltenham, to maintain a high standard of cleanliness and safety for our residents across the village.

**Working hours and salary**

**£9.85ph Plus Excellent Benefits**

**_Flexible working opportunities: _**‘Just let us know what hours you would like, and we’ll work with you to endeavour to create shift patterns that work for you around the needs of our residents’.**

Bank Shifts also available

**What your typical day involves**
- Ensuring that our residents’ care home facilities, public areas and individual properties are maintained to the highest cleaning standards
- Operating vacuum cleaners, floor polishers and carpet shampooers
- Emptying bins regularly
- Sweeping, scrubbing, waxing and polishing floors
- Cleaning carpets and upholstery and washing woodwork, windows, door panels and sills
- Washing, drying and ironing residents clothing, bedding and communal laundry, including for our on-site care home residents
- Reporting all safety hazards to management, ensuring Health and Safety standards and COSSH are adhered to at all times.

**Who we’re looking for**

You’ll have experience in a housekeeping or domestic cleaning role, with a basic understanding of infection control, COSSH and compliance standards. Friendly and approachable, you’ll build long lasting professional relationships with your colleagues, residents and their families. You understand the importance of maintaining a safe working environment and have a keen eye for detail - taking pride in your work. With strong communication skills, you’re able to work well as part of a team, across functions and services.

**What we’ll offer you in return**
- Comprehensive induction, on-going training and development, access to internal apprenticeship schemes
- Your DBS Check (£44) paid for
- Access to Wagestream - an app-based service that offers you the choice to be in control of when you access your earnings*
- NEST workplace pension, life assurance & bereavement support
- 28 days annual leave (inclusive of statutory bank holidays)
- Hot meal provided
- Paid breaks
- Refer a friend bonus scheme
- Uniform provided
- Health & wellbeing tools; including Be Me App, Healthy Minds, Gym Pass & discounted health assessments
- Shopping Discounts (via Xexec)
- Free flu vaccine

Only available to permanent employees where Healthroster is used. The above benefits are for permanent employees only - please speak to us about the benefits available for bank workers.

**Who we are**

Richmond Cheltenham is brand-new retirement village located in the attractive spa town well known for its festivals of culture and racecourse. Heralded, due to its abundance of mineral springs, as a health and holiday resort in the 18th century, Cheltenham remains one of the most sought-after locations to live well in the UK.

Providing a perfect opportunity to retire in style, Richmond retirement suites are available to buy or rent. Lifestyle and care packages are available to make daily life completely enjoyable and worry-free. There is also a beautiful care home at the heart of the village providing a higher level of support to those who require nursing or residential dementia care.

For over 20 years Richmond have been at the forefront of luxury retirement living. We're proud that we attract the best people and even prouder of how long they stay with us. Having won numerous awards for architecture, landscaping and care, we are now the benchmark for retirement villages in the UK. A totally fresh concept in retirement living, we ensure our residents retain as much independence and choice as possible while helping retain their 'zest for life'.
- Richmond Villages is part of Bupa. Bupa is committed to ensuring that every applicant is accessed for employment, promotion and development solely based on personal merit and qualifications, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age._
- Here you’ll be welcomed. We champion diversity and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. You’ll find an inclusive environment where you can be yourself and where everyone is driven by the same purpose - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world._