Domestic Assistant (Flexi) Margate, England
Job description
Pilgrims Hospices is looking for friendly Flexi Domestic Assistants to join our team to help keep our hospice clean for all those who work, visit and stay at our Thanet hospice site.
The Role
As a Domestic Assistant you will work as part of a team to ensure our hospice environment remains clean and pleasant. Your main responsibilities will include:
- Various cleaning duties to a high standard
- Replenishing washroom supplies
- Basic record keeping
- Reporting of any defects or damage found on our site
- Safely disposing of waste
- Attending team meetings
The post holder must ensure that cleaning is completed to a high standard, in line with standards expected within a healthcare environment.
Working Arrangements
This is a flexi role and is based at Pilgrims Hospice Thanet. Working days will be from Sunday to Monday. Flexibility is essential. You will be provided with on-site parking, a uniform and subsidised meals during your work day.
About You
To be successful in this role you should:
- Have a friendly and approachable attitude
- Be able to work well as part of a team or on your own
- Approach tasks quickly and efficiently
- A flexible attitude to work in a team rota, sometimes changing days as service requires
About Us
As an award-winning employer, Pilgrims provides end of life care services to patients and their families across east Kent.
Our commitment is to provide open, compassionate care and expertise for patients and their families – both in the community and in-patient units.
Our Vision
“Of a community where people with a terminal illness and their family and friends are supported and empowered to live well in mind and body until the very last moment of their life”.
We recognise that our workforce is integral to the delivery of our Visionand our charitable aims. Pilgrims Hospices continues to create a highly skilled, motivated, engaged and healthy workforce by providing an environment where staff and volunteers feel highly motivated to perform their roles to a consistently high standard, and actively role model our charitable behaviours and values.
To achieve our Vision, we have a shared set of values and behaviours that enable us to be the people and the charity that patients and their loved ones need us to be. They form our CODE, which guides us in our daily working and decision making:
Compassionate We treat everyone with compassion and care
Open We communicate openly, honestly and effectively
Dynamic We are dynamic, improving and developing our service
Empowered We empower people to achieve their outcomes
Our Benefits
As an Employer of Choice we are committed supporting our employees and volunteers through both a holistic benefits package, but also through wellbeing and work/life balance.
Our hospices offer:
- Friendly and highly professional working environments alongside people passionate
- Opportunities for professional development through a range of extensive learning
- A workplace pension scheme. Those joining us from the NHS may retain eligibility to membership of the NHS pension scheme
- Subsidised meals
- A good work-life balance and realistic working hours
- Financial discounts, provided through the Blue Light Card scheme
- A sense of achievement in supporting a worthwhile cause
- A sense of wellbeing
We invest in our employees, which is one of the key things that makes us an award-winning employer of choice!
How to Apply
To learn more about this role, please download the full job description document as attached.
If you are interested in applying for the role and wish to join our passionate team, please complete the application form attached.
Job Type: Zero hours contract
Salary: £10.42 per hour
Work Location: In person
