Head of Housekeeping - Care Home

Overview

As a Head of Housekeeping at a Barchester care home, you ll be responsible for creating a warm and homely environment essential for delivering quality care and support. You ll lead a team of housekeeping staff to ensure every room and living space is maintained to the highest standards. This role requires excellent attention to detail and the ability to motivate your team to be at their best, helping to make the care home a shining example of high-quality care.

The Head of Housekeeping leads a team of housekeeping staff to maintain the highest standards of cleanliness and presentation throughout the care home. This includes ensuring that all rooms, communal areas, and living spaces are clean, tidy, and well-maintained. The role requires excellent attention to detail and the ability to motivate and inspire the team to deliver exceptional results. The Head of Housekeeping will also work closely with other departments, such as nursing and care staff, to ensure a cohesive and coordinated approach to delivering high-quality care.

As a Head of Housekeeping at a Barchester care home, you ll help to create the warm and homely surroundings that are so important to delivering quality care and support. Leading a team of housekeeping staff, you ll ensure that every room and living space is maintained to the highest standards. The role demands excellent attention to detail, and you ll be relied upon to motivate everyone in your team to be at their best.

You ll help to make your care home a shining example of a high quality care environment.

Experience of housekeeping in a care home, hospital or hotel environment will be very advantageous for the role of Head of Housekeeping. We ll also look for a proven ability to lead and inspire a team. A caring nature and good communication skills are important as you ll often come into contact with other members of staff, residents and their relatives.

In return for your dedication, you ll receive a competitive rate of pay plus our sector-leading benefits and rewards package including:

• Free training and development for all roles
• Access to wellbeing and support tools
• A range of retail discounts and savings
• Unlimited referrals with our Refer a Friend  bonus scheme
• Employee of the Month  rewards and Long Service Awards

And so much more!

If you d like to use your attention to detail and people skills in an organisation that provides the quality care you d expect for your loved ones, this is a rewarding place to be.

As above, the role involves leading a housekeeping team to maintain the highest standards of cleanliness and presentation across the care home, with strong attention to detail and the ability to motivate the team.

Essential

• Experience of housekeeping in a care home, hospital, or hotel environment is highly advantageous for this role.
• A proven ability to lead and inspire a team.
• A caring nature and good communication skills to interact with staff, residents and their families.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name:
Barchester Healthcare

Address:
Barchester Healthcare, Bourne, PE10 9TU