Cleaner, Laundry

Responsible to the Head Of Housekeeping

• 1. To ensure the clean and hygienic maintenance of the home, for adults with learning & physical disabilities.
• 2. To maintain resident’s laundry daily and ensure residents clothes are well maintained, ironed, clearly named and labelled.
• 3. To engage residents and support them to clean their rooms and do their laundry to increase their life skills.

• 1. To clean all allocated communal rooms including furniture, fittings, fabric, carpets and equipment as outlined in the cleaning rota.
• 2. To adhere to the company’s health and safety policies and procedures and the COSHH statement and attend all mandatory training required, including the prevention and control of infection training.
• 3. To support and encourage residents to be involved in cleaning their rooms to create a homely environment.
• 4. Support residents to undertake various aspects of their laundry to help maintain and promote independence.
• 5. Ensure resident’s dignity and privacy is respected at all times.
• 6. To clean sanitary and other equipment, with particular attention to guidelines for the control of germs and infestation as outlined in the cleaning rota.
• 7. To ensure a regular supply of cleaning products are available.
• 8. To report any malfunction of equipment or fittings that require maintenance or cannot be kept to standard through normal cleaning procedures.
• 9. To deal with waste bags and their prescribed disposal.
• 10. To follow the laundry routine and required throughput of laundry, thereby preventing unnecessary build up.
• 11. To ensure that bundles of laundry are separated and identified for other staff to load and unload into washers and dryers
• 12. To be responsible for checking that the washers/dryers are maintained in good working order and report faults to the Head of Housekeeping.
• 13. To keep the laundry room and storage area in a clean, hygienic