Laundry Assistants

A vacancy exists for a permanent on-demand Laundry Assistant at Life East London Laundry to maintain and supply clean linen to all the Life Healthcare hospitals in East London. The successful candidates will report to Dalubuhle Sigabi, Laundry Manager.

• Counting and sorting of dirty linen
• Accurate record keeping
• Processing of all linen in designated areas
• Quality and stock management
• Operating of industrial laundry equipment
• Liaison with management
• Good housekeeping
• Maintaining health and safety regulations
• Waste disposal management

• Grade 12 certificate or equivalent
• Understand, speak, read and write English
• Able to work flexible hours and available on request as determined by business operations
• Able to maintain accuracy on figures recorded
• Work under stressful conditions
• Neat appearance and personal hygiene
• Good inter-personal relations

• Problem-solving, analysis and judgement
• Attention to detail
• Resilience
• Engaging diversity
• Professional and technical proficiency
• Excellence orientation
• Building relationships
• Customer responsiveness
• Organisational awareness
• Action orientation
• Ethical behaviour

Email: recruitment
Closing date:
Monday, February 9, 2026

Internal applicants – Before making an application, you are requested to discuss your application with your line manager. External candidates will also be considered.

Life Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Thank you for your interest in this opportunity. Kindly note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Applicants who have not been contacted within two weeks of the closing date of this advert should consider their application as unsuccessful.