Housekeeping Assistant - Bank
Allington Court Care Home, Lye Lane, St Albans, AL2 3TN
It’s the small things that often make the biggest difference. At Bupa Care Homes, we know it's our privilege to care for people – supporting them to live with dignity and independence. Right now, we’re looking for a caring and organised individual to join us as a Housekeeping Assistant at Allington Court Care Home in St Albans to help us be the positive difference to our resident’s lives.
Working hours and salary
£11.10 - £12.00 per hour depending on your experience
Bank contracts available.
What your typical day involves
You’ll be responsible for maintaining high standards of cleanliness within the home, working closely with our other housekeeping and maintenance staff
Always ensuring our residents are kept happy, you will vacuum, mop floors, polish and generally ensure the up-keep of all communal areas and our resident’s bedrooms
You’ll maintain housekeeping stocks for day to day use and raise any issues to the Housekeeping Supervisor as you go
Who we’re looking for
You take pride in ensuring your work is always completed to a high standard and can maintain an organised environment. Often managing multiple requests at once, you’ll be comfortable multitasking and where necessary, working with other teams to ensure our residents are kept happy in their home.
The added benefits of Bupa
- 28 days holiday
- Hot meal provided on a 12-hour shift
- Comprehensive induction, on-going training and development and options for internal apprenticeship schemes
- Access to MyHealthcare which gives you quick, easy access to free 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.
- Additional health & wellbeing tools including Be Me App, Healthy Minds, Gym Pass & discounted health assessments
- NEST workplace pension, life assurance & bereavement support
- Healthcare Insurance Cash plan (after 18 months’ service) giving you the ability to claim on everyday treatments like dental, optical and private prescriptions
- My Bupa Extras - discounts at your favourite retailers, plus a huge range of tools, content and information to support you with your wellbeing.
- Wagestream – Access your income before pay day, if and when you need it
- Only available to permanent employees where HealthRoster is used.
Who we are
As a leading healthcare group, we run care homes and retirement villages in the health and social care sector, health centres, dental centres and hospitals all over the world. As well as providing insurance to over 16 million people. We’re a big company but no matter what business area you’re in, our purpose is simple – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.
At Bupa Care Services, we want everyone to Love Working Here, to help us achieve this and measure colleague engagement we regularly check in with our teams through our People Pulse survey. We’re proud that at Allington Court Care Home we’re achieving a world class level of colleague engagement – as measured by our survey provider, Glint in June 2022.
And we have belief in you to help us achieve it.
Please note that we are unable to offer Skilled Worker Visa Sponsorship for this role. Therefore, you must ensure that you are eligible to work in the UK without our sponsorship in order for your application to be considered.
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Here you’ll be welcomed. We champion diversity and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. You’ll find an inclusive environment where you can be yourself and where everyone is driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.