Housekeeper - Oakwood Grange, Barnsley
Hours available: 21, 35 or 40 hours per week
Full-time and part-time positions available
Looking for a role that offers flexibility, a friendly team and the chance to make a genuine difference every day?
We’re looking for Housekeepers to join our team at Oakwood Grange in Barnsley, with a choice of 21, 35 or 40 hours per week.
Whether you’re looking for part-time hours to fit around your other commitments or a full-time position with more hours, we’d love to hear from you. We can offer some flexibility around shifts and will discuss the available working patterns with you during the recruitment process.
The role
As a Housekeeper, you’ll play an important part in making Oakwood Grange a welcoming place to live and work.
It’s about much more than keeping things clean and tidy. You’ll help create a clean, pleasant and safe environment for our residents, helping them feel comfortable and at home.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Carrying out day-to-day housekeeping and cleaning duties throughout the home
- Making sure communal areas and residents’ spaces are clean, welcoming and well maintained
- Using cleaning products and equipment safely and effectively
- Following health and safety, infection control and COSHH procedures
- Ensuring cleaning products are stored appropriately
- Reporting any equipment or health and safety concerns to your manager
- Working alongside colleagues to maintain high standards throughout the home
- The role is focused on creating a clean, safe and welcoming environment for residents and colleagues.
About you
Previous cleaning or housekeeping experience would be helpful, but just as important is having the right attitude and taking pride in your work.
We’re looking for someone who is:
- Friendly, approachable and respectful
- Organised with good time-management skills
- Able to work independently and as part of a team
- Comfortable prioritising tasks around residents’ needs
- Committed to maintaining high standards of cleanliness
- Understanding of the importance of health and safety, confidentiality and safeguarding
- Previous cleaning experience is desirable rather than essential.
Why join us?
At Anchor, our Housekeepers are valued members of the team. The work you do every day helps make our care home somewhere residents can feel comfortable, proud and truly at home.
With 21, 35 and 40-hour contracts available, this is a great opportunity whether you’re looking for part-time flexibility or a more substantial full-time role.
We’re happy to discuss the available shifts and flexibility with you to find a working pattern that works for both you and the home.
Our commitment to equality
Anchor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where colleagues are treated with dignity and respect.
We recruit, train and promote without discrimination on the basis of race, religion, colour, sex or gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age or any other protected status.
Please note: All applicants must already hold the legal right to work in the UK to apply for this role.
If you take pride in creating a clean and welcoming environment and would like a role with a choice of hours and some flexibility around your shifts, apply today to join the team at Oakwood Grange.
Oakwood Grange in Barnsley is home to well trained and helpful staff with rooms for up to 60 residents. At Anchor, we pride ourselves in providing 24-hour care and specialised services for elderly people, the beauty of our grounds, the quality of our catering and our engaging activities we deliver.
- A part of the local community, With good relationships with relatives and health care professionals
- Dementia themed area’s
- Good home cooked food, with staff that put residents first with a homemade birthday cakes for every resident
Anchor – a great place to work
Anchor is England’s largest not-for-profit providers of care and housing for older people. Our heartfelt ambition is to transform housing and care so everyone can have a home where they love living in later life.
We’re not-for-profit which means every penny we make or save is invested in the people who live with us, the places they live and the people who work here. That means a better standard of care and customer service, better wages, more investment in training and development and improved facilities.
A rewarding environment
From health and happiness to finance and your career, we’ll give you all the support you need.
Health & happiness
- Gym, fitness and wellbeing discounts
- Mental health support
- Flexible working options
Finance
- Pension plan – contribute between 4% and 8% and we’ll match it or better
- Quick and easy pension transfer service
- Savings and financial advice, loans, free life assurance
- Discounts on shopping, holidays, phones, technology and more
Career
- Ongoing personal and professional development programme
- Leadership Pathways online learning resources
- Career progression and promotion opportunities
To see our full range of benefits, check out our dedicated rewards website
Celebrating diversity, celebrating you
Anchor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We aim to celebrate diversity and inclusion in all that we do, as we know that the more diverse our colleagues are, the better care and support we can give to our residents and each other.
We are proud to have an LGBT+ group for our residents, and also Disability, LGBT+ and race and ethnicity colleague networks. These work to celebrate diversity, address concerns, review policy and practice and empower their members. We also have an Inclusive Ambassador network to allow all colleagues to be part of promoting diversity and to be an ally to others.
We are a member of Inclusive Employers, a Stonewall Diversity Champion and a signatory to the Care Leaver Covenant and HouseProud Pledge schemes.
