Job Description
Job Description: Domestic Assistant
REPORTING TO: Head Housekeeper
SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE & QUALIFICATIONS
Required:
- Team player
- Good communication skills
- Satisfactory Police Check and check against the POVA List (where applicable)
Desired:
- Care for the Elderly experience
- NVQ Level 1 / 2 Cleaning and Support Services
- Knowledge of infection and hygiene procedures, health and safety and COSHH regulations
- Understanding of colour coding
JOB PURPOSE:
As a Domestic Assistant you are required to maintain the highest levels of cleanliness in bedrooms and public areas within the Home. Your duties and responsibilities will include:
Cleaning:
- Ensuring sections of bedrooms, corridor and public areas are kept clean and tidy to the required standard.
- Daily Cleaning:
- Emptying waste bins and wiping out.
- Vacuuming throughout and mopping
- Shaking out cushions.
- Cleaning en -suite and communal bathrooms
- Cleaning taps and sinks.
- Cleaning soap dishes.
- Cleaning toothbrush holders.
- Spot cleaning all floorings.
- Wipe down mattress on bed change
- Bed change when required
- Cleaning reception areas
- Cleaning quiet rooms and conservatories
- Dusting and cleaning bedrooms
- Polishing all mirrors.
- Cleaning all pipe-work in lavatories.
- Dusting handrails and radiators.
- Moving all mobile furniture (including beds and chairs) and vacuuming and dusting beneath / behind.
- Washing out metal wastepaper bins.
- Dusting and cleaning lounges
- Dusting and polishing furniture and windowsills.
- Washing lino floors.
- Shampooing carpets as requested by Home Manager.
- Dusting pictures.
- Dusting curtain rails.
- Dusting light bulbs and fittings.
- Cleaning of stair wells
- Clean bedroom windows
- Restocking , soaps, towels etc. as and when required.
- Efficient and economical use of supplies provided.
- Assisting with Linen Room duties when requested.
- Keeping storage areas clean and tidy and stocked up at all times.
Communication:
- Participating in Staff meetings as required.
- Informing the Housekeeper of any special cleaning requests e.g. soiled bedspreads.
Training & Development:
- Attending mandatory training days / courses, on or off site, as and when required.
- Maintaining professional knowledge and competence.
Health & Safety:
- Adhere to the Home’s Disposal of Waste policy.
- Making certain that chemicals / equipment are used and stored correctly and safety procedures adhered to at all times.
- Reporting immediately to the Home Manager, or Person in Charge, any illness of an infectious nature or accident incurred by a Client, colleague, self or another.
- Understanding and ensuring the implementation of the Home’s Health and Safety, Infection Control and Hygiene policies, and Emergency and Fire procedures.
- Reporting to the Home Manager, or the Handyperson, any faulty appliances, damaged furniture, equipment or any potential hazard.
- Promoting safe working practice in the Home
- General:
- Contributing to the safeguarding of adults by ensuring you are aware of your role in relation to the Home’s Safeguarding Adult’s Policy, taking steps to protects Residents from any form of abuse or neglect and use the appropriate reporting mechanisms to inform the Home’s Management of any concerns.
- Adhering to all new, and changes in Local and Central Government initiatives as and when they are implemented.
- Promoting and ensuring the good reputation of the Home.
- Ensuring that all information of confidential nature gained in the course of duty is not divulged to third parties.
- Notifying the Home Manager, or the Person in Charge, as soon as possible of your inability to report for duty, and also on your return to work from all periods of absence.
- Ensuring the security of the Home is maintained at all times.
- Adhering to all Company policies and procedures within the defined timescales.
- Ensuring all equipment is clean and well maintained.
- Carrying out any other tasks that may be reasonably assigned to you.
This Job Description indicates only the main duties and responsibilities of the post. It is not intended as an exhaustive list.
Berrycroft Manor reserves the right to amend this Job Description from time, according to business needs. A
Job Type: Part-time
Part-time hours: 25 per week
Salary: Up to £10.70 per hour
Schedule:
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Rochdale: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Work Location: In person