Head Housekeeper

Avery Healthcare is one of the UK's largest providers of luxury elderly care homes. They are passionate about creating meaningful experiences for their residents and team members, offering exceptional care across their growing network of over 100 homes. They are looking for a warm, enthusiastic, and dedicated individual to join their award-winning team as a Head Housekeeper at Rivermere Care Home in Sevenoaks.

As Head Housekeeper, your focus will be to oversee the housekeeping and laundry cleaning service to ensure a high-quality and comprehensive care service is delivered to residents. You will be responsible for carrying out all cleaning duties, preparing orders for cleaning materials, monitoring standards of work, and supervising and directing the housekeeping team.

Avery Healthcare is a leading provider of luxury elderly care homes in the UK. They are committed to creating a supportive and inspiring environment where employees feel valued and empowered every day. With their vision of ‘creating meaningful lives together,’ they offer exceptional care and opportunities for professional growth.

Shift Details: 8 am until 4 pm.

Your focus as Head Housekeeper will be to oversee the housekeeping and laundry cleaning service in support of the hospitality services function to ensure a high-quality and comprehensive care service is delivered to residents.

Other responsibilities will include:

• Carrying out all cleaning duties as per the housekeeping job description.
• Preparing orders for Home Manager approval for all cleaning materials with approved suppliers whilst complying with procedures to maintain appropriate stock levels and control and ensuring good quality products are purchased within agreed budget limits.
• Monitoring standards of work of the housekeeping and laundry team to always maintain high cleanliness standards.
• Supervising and directing the work of the housekeeping team, providing instruction and demonstration to new staff on cleaning tasks and materials.

To succeed in your application, you will live our values of caring, supportive, honest, respectful, and accountable in all you do.

Our ideal candidate must have:

• Experience in cleaning and managing laundry in a public setting.
• Knowledge of health and safety, particularly moving and handling techniques, fire safety, and COSHH assessments.
• Demonstrate compassion and commitment to the delivery of high-quality housekeeping/laundry service to residents.
• Demonstrate the ability to lead, supervise and develop teams.

Please note this role will require:

• A DBS Disclosure check, the cost of which will be met by Avery Healthcare.
• Proof of eligibility to work in the UK.

This advert may be withdrawn prior to the advertised deadline depending on the volume of applications received and business needs.

• To succeed in this role, you will need experience in cleaning and managing laundry in a public setting, knowledge of health and safety, and the ability to lead, supervise and develop teams. You should also demonstrate compassion and commitment to delivering high‑quality housekeeping and laundry services.

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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.