Domestic Assistant
- Towy Castle Care Home | Carmarthen, SA32 8DY
- £12.71 per hour | 21 hours per week | Permanent
- 8am - 2pm | 3 Days On / 3 Days Off
Experienced in cleaning or housekeeping within a care or healthcare environment?
We're looking for a reliable and conscientious Domestic Assistant to join the team at Towy Castle Care Home.
This isn't simply a cleaning job. You'll be working within our residents' home, including their bedrooms and personal spaces, and interacting with residents throughout your working day.
We're therefore particularly interested in people who already have experience of cleaning or housekeeping within a care home, hospital, healthcare, supported-living or similar environment and understand the importance of infection control, confidentiality, dignity and working respectfully around the people in their care.
About the Role
As a Domestic Assistant, you'll play an important part in maintaining a clean, safe, comfortable and welcoming home for our residents.
You'll work throughout the care home, completing scheduled cleaning tasks while being mindful that this is first and foremost our residents' home.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Cleaning residents' bedrooms and bathrooms
- Cleaning communal areas and other areas throughout the home
- Following cleaning schedules and completing required records
- Maintaining high standards of cleanliness and hygiene
- Following infection prevention and control procedures
- Using and storing cleaning products and equipment safely
- Reporting maintenance, safety or housekeeping concerns
- Working respectfully within residents' personal spaces
- Maintaining residents' privacy, dignity and confidentiality
- Communicating appropriately and warmly with residents, visitors and colleagues
- Working with the wider team to maintain a safe and comfortable environment
Who We're Looking For
Previous cleaning, domestic or housekeeping experience within a care home, hospital, healthcare, supported-living or similar environment is strongly preferred.
We're looking for someone who understands that working in a care environment is different from cleaning an empty building or commercial premises. Residents will be around you while you work, and you'll need to be comfortable communicating with people who may have a range of individual needs, including people living with dementia.
You'll need to be:
- Experienced in cleaning, domestic or housekeeping work, ideally within a care or healthcare setting
- Comfortable working around and interacting with residents
- Respectful of people's privacy, dignity and personal space
- Reliable and committed to your rota
- Thorough with good attention to detail
- Able to follow cleaning schedules and infection-control procedures
- Confident working independently and as part of a wider team
- Friendly, patient and professional in your approach
- Able to understand the importance of confidentiality when working in a care environment
Experience working around older people or people living with dementia would be particularly welcomed.
Your Hours
This is a permanent, part-time position working 21 hours per week.
Shift time: 8am–2pm
Rolling rota: 3 days on / 3 days off
Your rota will include weekend working, so please make sure you can commit to the full rolling rota before applying.
What We Offer
- Paid DBS check
- Paid induction and training
- Health Cash Plan
- Employee Health & Wellbeing Programme
- Company Pension Scheme
- Bank Holiday Pay Enhancements
- Long Service Awards
- Annual Awards Programme
- Ongoing training and development
- A supportive and friendly team environment
About Towy Castle
Towy Castle Care Home provides residential care for older adults, including people living with dementia.
We're committed to providing a warm, homely environment where residents feel safe, comfortable, valued and respected and our Domestic team plays an important part in making that possible.
Interested?
If you have cleaning or housekeeping experience, particularly within care, healthcare or another environment where you've worked around vulnerable people, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply today with your CV, making sure your relevant cleaning, housekeeping or care-environment experience is included.
My Choice Healthcare is an equal opportunities employer. All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks, including references and an Enhanced DBS check.
Pay: £12.71 per hour
Application question(s):
- Tell Us About Your Experience.
Please briefly tell us about your previous cleaning, domestic or housekeeping experience, including the type of environment you worked in and your main responsibilities.
- This position is 21 hours per week, working 8am - 2pm on a rolling 3 days on / 3 days off rota, which includes weekends. Are you able to reliably work this rota?
- Do you currently have unrestricted right to work in the UK and are you able to work the full hours required for this role without sponsorship?
- Do you currently hold an Enhanced DBS certificate issued within the last 12 months for the Adults Workforce or Adults & Children Workforce?
- If you answered Yes to the previous question, is your DBS certificate currently registered with the DBS Update Service?
Work Location: In person
