Housekeeping Team Leader

Location: Kewstoke

Are you looking for a new opportunity within a Care Setting? We are actively recruiting exceptional, caring individuals who want to join our team at Penrose Croft, Helston, Cornwall! Crystal Care Collection are focused on making our homes not just luxury places for our residents to live, but also wonderful places for our team members to work. As a Housekeeping Team Leader, you will play an integral role within the care home, working as part of a small domestic team.

Your role is key in ensuring the home is cleaned and maintained to very high standard in line with the cleaning schedules in order to ensure our residents live in an exceptional environment. You will become part of the care home family and lets be honest, YOU are what makes our home a great place to live and work!

Key Responsibilities:

-To provide a high quality housekeeping service to ensure all areas of the home are cleaned to a high standard and that all linen and residents personal clothing/items are correctly laundered
-To oversee all domestic staff and to ensure all duties are completed to the desired standards.

-You will be responsible for ordering cleaning stock and ensuring stock levels are correct at all times.

-To ensure that all areas of the Care Home are cleaned to a high standard in compliance with the specific cleaning guidelines and schedules and that they effectively meet the residents and homes needs.

-To respect and maintain confidentiality of residents personal information at all times, including their right to privacy, dignity and choice.

-To understand and comply with all statutory and legal requirements that are relevant such as Health & Safety, COSHH, and all aspects of the Health & Social Care Act, to ensure a safe and efficient laundry service in the home. Understand and have an awareness of Infection Control.

-To check that all residents personal clothing and items are individually labelled, maintained in good repair and returned to the correct resident in a timely manner after each laundry session.

-To respect and maintain confidentiality of residents personal information at all times, including residents right to privacy, dignity and choice.

-To ensure all equipment used is in full, safe working order, promptly reporting any faults to both Maintenance and the General Manager.

-To check all areas of the home are supplied with adequate housekeeping items and inform the manager of any shortages.

-To always be alert and use your own initiative, spot clean any spillages as they occur.

-To be an active and helpful member of the team, contribute to meeting, attend training sessions and ensure that The Care Home is a friendly and supportive working environment. We will offer FULL Induction Training Programme PAID Breaks FULLY FUNDED Blue Light Card FULLY FUNDED Enhanced DBS Check Refer a Friend BONUS Scheme Uniform Tunic PROVIDED PAY Day Breakfast FREE Meal on Shift Hours of work: (09:00-16:00) and you will be expected to work Monday to Friday which will be 35 hours per week in total.

Hourly Rate of Pay: £13.50 Are you a friendly, hard-working individual, with excellent communication skills that enjoys working in a fast-paced environment? Then wed love to hear from you! We are currently unable to offer sponsorship. Fill out the form below to apply.