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Permanent Part Time Housekeeping Assistant (19 hrs per week)
Kirk House

Primary purpose of the role

As a Housekeeping Assistant your focus will be to ensure a high standard of cleanliness and hygiene is kept throughout Kirk House including in residents' rooms.

Key accountabilities

• Ensure residents’ rooms are maintained to a high standard of cleanliness and that duties are carried out in a respectful manner, according to residents' needs
• Share responsibility with the rest of the housekeeping team to maintaining the cleanliness of all communal areas
• Ensure that sufficient levels of cleaning supplies and equipment are maintained and available and advise management on replenishing supplies
• Assist with serving meals and to ensure all areas are clean and tidy after each meal
• Adhere to our Health & Safety policy and procedure and where necessary, bring to the attention of management, any area, piece of equipment, standard or working practice, which does not meet safe standards
• Ensure an effective system of collecting, receiving / redistributing laundry is in place to ensure that resident’s requirements are always met
• Undertake checks to ensure that items of laundry have been thoroughly cleaned
• Ensure that finished laundry items are folded, bagged, or hung up according to garment requirements, ready for collection.
• You must ensure that you operate all equipment in a safe manner and abide by the instructions of use in respect of each item of equipment
• Report any faulty or unsafe appliances or equipment to management
• Advising on the replenishment of cleaning agents/ washing powders/liquids/fabric conditioners to ensure the smooth running of the laundry service

Requirements

Essential

• Good communication skills and ability to work as a team
• Ability to use initiative to resolve issues and follow correct reporting procedures

Desirable

• Experience in a similar role within a Residential Care/Nursing Home environment

Terms and Conditions
To work at BCM you must be willing to provide the following information:

• Enhanced AccessNI Disclosure
• Medical Questionnaire
• Proof of right to work in Northern Ireland

Job Type: Part-time
Part-time hours: 19 per week

Salary: £10.52 per hour

Benefits:

• Bereavement leave
• Company pension
• Health & wellbeing programme
• Private medical insurance

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Flexitime

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Belfast: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

• housekeeping: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: 23/KHHA/6