Bank - Domestic

Bank - Domestic SW1622016BlaBD Permanent Blackburn, Lancashire, United Kingdom Make a difference every day and give back to your community! This role will be based at Hawkhurst Residential Home in Blackburn, Lancashire. The home has been specially designed to cater to the every need of 26 residents, living with a range of physical and mental health conditions that require dignified support from our caring team. It is essential that candidates for this role are therefore patient, understanding and respectful of our resident's individual abilities. Benefits of becoming our Laundry Assistant: In return for your commitment to ensuring a quality service provision for our residents, we can offer range of excellent benefits including; - Excellent hourly pay ranging from £12.96 to £13.32 dependent upon qualification - Opportunities to learn and progress with the support of our dedicated Quality Matters team - Fully funded DBS - Comprehensive Holiday Pay scheme that rewards you for your commitment to care - Fantastic Refer a Friend scheme, offering up to £250 per successful candidate! - Access to Blue Light Card Responsibilities of our Domestic Assistant include: - Processing residents personal clothing and household laundry to a high standard within the Domestic service - Ensuring that any items that require thermal disinfection are processed correctly and that infection control procedures are strictly adhered to - Ensuring that all items of personal and household laundry are ironed/pressed to a high standard - Ensuring that all items of personal clothing and household linen are in a good state of repair and to bring to the attention of the Hotel Services Manager/Care Home Manager when they are not - Maintaining all areas of the laundry, equipment and linen cupboards in a clean, tidy and hygienic condition, ensuring stock levels are adequate - Remaining professional and courteous at all times with residents, colleagues, external professionals, family members and visitors to the home - Following any health & safety procedures required of you and to ensure that any health and safety risks are reported to the Manager immediately - Any other reasonable duties, as requested by your Manager, to meet the changing needs of the business What we're looking for in our Domestic Assistant: To be successful within this role, you will have a genuine caring nature and a desire to make a real difference for our residents. Though prior experience as a Domestic Assistant is desirable, this is not essential as full training is provided. Typically, our residents live with age related conditions, life-limiting health conditions and physical disabilities that require dignified support from our care team. It is essential that candidates for this role are therefore patient, understanding and respectful of our resident's individual abilities. Additionally, many of our residents live with dementia and as such an understanding of dementia would be beneficial. If you feel have the skills and experience to become our Domestic Assistant please click 'apply' today, and we'll ensure to be in touch! T14:52:09.91+00:00