Job Description:
Housekeeping Assistant
Richmond Villages Wood Norton, Evesham Road, Evesham, Worcestershire, WR11 4TY* *SatNav WR11 4YB
Salary: £12.90 per hour plus paid breaks and excellent Bupa benefits
Permanent, 48 hours per week on shifts between 7am - 3pm /9am - 3pm. Across 4-5 days, to include alternate weekends
Additionally, we require flexibility to be able to cover early shifts from 07:00 (with notice) and extra hours for holiday and sickness cover when required.
We make health happen
At Bupa, we offer essential support when it matters most. Richmond Villages Wood Norton provides luxury retirement living with personalized care that promotes independence and honours individual choice, allowing our residents to live their best lives. We take pride in our carehome.co.uk review score of 9.9 out of 10.
Our housekeeper is the unsung hero of our award-winning retirement village. With a flair for perfection and a sprinkle of care, they keep our community sparkling and residents beaming with pride.
You'll help us make health happen by:
Ensuring that our residents' care home facilities, public areas and individual properties are maintained to the highest cleaning standards
Operating vacuum cleaners, floor polishers and carpet shampooers
Emptying bins regularly
Sweeping, scrubbing, waxing and polishing floors
Cleaning carpets and upholstery and washing woodwork, windows, door panels and sills
Washing, drying and ironing residents clothing, bedding and communal laundry, including for our on-site care home residents
Reporting all safety hazards to management, ensuring Health and Safety standards and COSSH are adhered to at all times.
Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:
You will ideally bring experience from a housekeeping or domestic cleaning role, along with a basic understanding of infection control, COSHH, and compliance standards. As someone who is friendly and approachable, you will forge enduring professional relationships with colleagues, residents, and their families. Recognizing the importance of a safe working environment, you possess a meticulous attention to detail and take pride in your work. Equipped with strong communication skills, you are adept at collaborating as part of a team, across various functions and services.
Benefits
Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health - from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.
Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:
My Healthcare - Quick, easy access to support, advice, and treatment for a variety of health-related issues, including remote GP, physiotherapy, and mental health support - all available from one phone number 24/7.
Annual allowance which you can redeem against a menu of Bupa healthcare products, all to the approximate value of £350
Free meal with every shift.
28 days holiday.
Long Service - For every milestone at Bupa we will reward you with ecards, extra holidays and money!
Interest- free annual travel Loan to enable the purchase of public transport annual season tickets.
Wagestream - Have early access up to 40% of your earned wages within minutes.
Competitive Pension plans and Parental leave options as well as access to unique products such as our Menopause plan.
My Bupa Extras - discounts at your favourite retailers, plus a huge range of tools, content and information to support you with your wellbeing.
We offer a sick pay scheme to our frontline teams, as an addition to statutory sick pay, to help provide some reassurance and financial support during longer absences.
Why Bupa?
We're a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.
We encourage all of our people to ”Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That's why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We'll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.
If you require information regarding this role in an alternative format, please email: [email protected]
Time Type:
Full time
Job Area:
Care Home - Facilities & Home Support
Locations:
Richmond Wood Norton
Cycle to work scheme, Gym membership, Free flu jabs, Private dental insurance, Company pension, Paid volunteer time, Discounted or free food, Additional leave, Employee mentoring programme, Health & wellbeing programme, Financial planning services, Referral programme
