Housekeeping and Laundry Assistant

**I Care, You Care, We Care; New Care**

Our stunning care home Grosvenor Manor Care Centre is a purpose built care home facility in Great Boughton, Chester. The home is registered to provide care to 81 residents who have a variety of care needs including residential, nursing and dementia residential. Grosvenor Manor is rated OUTSTANDING in Responsive and GOOD in all other domains by CQC and has a 5* EHO rating. We provide the highest standards of safety, comfort and care to residents. We are in a great location and have a very good local reputation. New Care has had a 0 agency usage for over 24 months as we employ a permanent staff team to ensure continuity of care to residents from staff that know them and that residents know and trust. Across New Care all of our staff are paid above national living wage.

We are seeking to appoint a kind, caring and experienced Housekeeping and Laundry Assistant to join our team, due to the success of our home. We are looking for motivated Housekeepers who will ensure that the standard of cleanliness and hygiene within the home, is maintained to the highest level and within the New Care specification. We have one full time permanent contract available, shift times are 0800-1600 with alternate weekend working and a competitive hourly rate of £10.30 paid for all staff regardless of their age You must be over 18 to apply.

**Role Responsibilities**:

- Tidying and cleaning residents’ rooms, furnishings and carpets
- To assist with laundry during busy periods such as holidays and sickness
- Tidying and cleaning communal areas
- Regularly cleaning and monitoring the cleanliness of the communal toilets/bathrooms
- Ensuring that all toilets/bathrooms and restaurant areas are kept well stocked with toilet rolls, liquid hand soap and paper hand towels
- Remove any trays or crockery left in rooms from previous meal times
- Following cleaning schedules as delegated by the Head Housekeeper
- To assist with other tasks necessary to facilitate the smooth running of the home as directed by the Line Manager.

**Skills and experience required**:

- Previous non-domestic cleaning and experience of working in a care setting would be beneficial
- Ability to operate cleaning equipment in the Home
- Ability to follow simple written and verbal instructions and write basic comments
- Communicate effectively with other team members
- Display reliability and trustworthiness

**The Benefits**

Opportunities to progress through our career paths into more senior and management roles
- Bank holiday enhancements
- 5.6 weeks annual leave per annum
- Paid DBS
- Uniform provided
- Paid training
- Refer a friend referral scheme
- Excellent induction programme for new starters
- A rewarding career with lots of opportunities to progress within the company
- Ongoing support and training for nationally recognised qualifications
- A competitive rate of pay
- Cycle to work scheme
- Wellbeing programmes
- Recognition awards - employee of the month and golden tickets
- Ongoing career development
- Travel plan - walk or ride a bike and get a free meal that day
- Christmas Bonuses
- Pension scheme
- HASTEE - access to your money as you earn (pay advance)

**About New Care**

The care philosophy of New Care aims to ensure all residents maintain the highest level of independence and achieve their full potential whatever that may be - physical, intellectual, emotional or social. We believe this philosophy can be achieved by providing professional, person
- centred care, nurturing each resident individually exploring and understanding their needs. The health, well-being and happiness of our residents is always our number one priority.

New Care, as part of the McGoff group have been designing, building and operating care homes for over 10 years. Each New Care home is purpose built and expertly designed with the needs of our residents in mind. Internally the design is luxurious yet comfortable and practical.

The company ethos ‘To celebrate the wonder of people’ relates to all those who are part of the New Care family, residents, their family and friends, staff members and professional visitors. Ultimately we want residents to live their lives to the fullest and to be proud of their home and feel happy to invite their family and friends to visit.