Housekeeping Assistant - Bank, Huntingdonshire

As a Housekeeping Assistant at Saxon Manor Care Home with Avery Healthcare, you'll be part of a supportive team dedicated to maintaining cleanliness and laundry standards within the home. Your role will include following cleaning instructions, understanding cleaning requirements for various surfaces, and ensuring all areas are presented well. Treating residents with dignity and respect is paramount, as is ensuring residents' personal space and belongings are respected.

Other responsibilities will include:

• Carrying out all cleaning duties in accordance with worksheet instructions.
• Understanding the cleaning requirements of different surfaces and coverings and the properties of cleaning materials, ensuring that all areas are well presented and maintained in good condition.
• Ensuring that all residents are treated with dignity and respect and that their personal space and belongings are always respected.

To succeed in your application, you will live our values of caring, supportive, honest, respectful and accountable in all you do.

Our ideal candidate must have:

• Knowledge of Health and Safety, particularly Moving and Handling techniques, Fire Safety and COSHH assessments.
• Experience of cleaning laundry in a public setting.
• Demonstrate compassion and commitment to the delivery of high-quality housekeeping/laundry service to residents.
• The ability to be adaptive and flexible to cover a range of responsibilities at short notice.

Available to us is a supportive, growth‑oriented environment that values respect and compassion, with opportunities for learning and development across a network of over 100 homes.

Please note this role will require:

• ADBS Disclosure check, the cost of which will be met by Avery Healthcare.
• Proof of eligibility to work in the UK.

• Knowledge of Health and Safety, Moving and Handling techniques, Fire Safety, COSHH assessments, and experience in cleaning laundry in a public setting.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.