Job description
Hours: 20 hours per week
Shift Pattern: Working shifts between 9am - 1pm, including alternate weekends
In Extra Care, our residents live independently in their own homes within one of our schemes, complete with communal lounges, gardens, cafés/bistros and salons.
Your role as Domestic Assistant will be to help us to provide a range of domestic services including cleaning and shopping for residents in their home based on individual requirements, ensuring individual residents needs are met.
You will ensure levels of cleaning materials are maintained and equipment is in good working order, escalating to the Manager for replacements when necessary.
While experience in a similar role is not essential, we are looking for someone with a great attention to detail and who takes pride in what they do.
The benefits
At Housing 21 we’re proud to be bucking the trend as a care provider by actively recognising the importance of our employees and rewarding them accordingly. You will receive:
- Holiday Pay
- Occupational Sick Pay
- Occupational Maternity Pay
- Health Cash Plan*
- Blue Light Card (offering discounts across retail, hospitality and leisure)
- Car Lease Scheme
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Uniform provided
- Employee Assistance Programme
- 50p hourly enhancement for all Level 2
- Training and development to fulfil your career aspirations
An offer of employment will be subject to the satisfactory completion of an enhanced disclosure check, satisfactory references, and induction training.
If you require further information, please view the job profile attached.
- Health Cash Plan funded for those working a minimum of 10 hours per week on a guaranteed hour contract.
Closing date for applications 31 May
We know that great people make a great organisation, which is why we put people at the heart of everything we do. You are as valuable to us as our corporate employees, which is why we offer occupational sick pay, occupational maternity and paternity pay and benefits such as the Blue Light Card to all our Extra Care employees.
We’re proud to be an Investors in People (IIP) Platinum organisation, which shows that not only do we actively empower our people to be the best they can be through continued training and development, but we also seek to constantly improve the ways we work. You shouldn’t have to choose between a career and care, and we want to support you to advance your career with us, which is why we have a dedicated learning pathway through our Extra Care Academy that could lead to future roles with salaries of £50,000! A career in care means you can make a difference and help our residents to live independently in their own homes.
Blue Light
Card
Discounted retail, leisure and hospitality
Holiday trade
scheme
Funded health
cash plan
Occupational maternity pay / paternity pay
Pension
contributions
Occupational sick pay
Eyecare
vouchers
Car salary sacrifice and leasing scheme
Learning and development opportunities
Benefit entitlements are confirmed with your offer of employment.