Job Introduction
We are on the look out for a cleaner to join our Carrswood Day service in Twerton. The service provides person-centred, specialist support to service users with significant health needs.
The role is primarily based at the Day service, and you will work within a small team with one or two other staff responsible for cleaning the Day service. The role may involve lone working depending on the cleaning arrangements and needs of the service. You will be responsible for opening and closing the building and ensuring the environment is safe and hygienic for anyone at Carrswood.
The role is part-time where you will work 20 hours across the week. The service provision is currently Monday to Friday between 9-5pm. The shift patterns for this role are typically between 5-9am or 3-7pm however the flexibility of this can be discussed at interview.
Main Responsibility
You will primarily be responsible for the following:
- To ensure the building and the grounds are safe, secure and accessible prior to and during times of opening and to secure the building at the end of the day.
- To be responsible for the safe and secure handling of keys and door codes
- To perform high-standard cleaning duties to promote and maintain an environment suitable for service users, staff and visitors, throughout the day.
- To ensure they comply by the colour coding system to prevent cross contamination and abide by Infection Prevention Control systems, COSHH and safe working practices
- To ensure that at all times they are aware of the environment they are working in and they follow policies and procedures to ensure the safety of the service users, staff, visitors and themselves
The Ideal Candidate
Essential:
- Have an understanding of legislation related to this type of work
- Have an understanding of risk assessment processes in the workplace
- Previous experience operating work related equipment, aids and devices in a similar role, e.g. laundry machinery, floor cleaners, handheld devices
- Due to the key holder responsibilities of this role, you must be comfortable with handling keys and door codes
Desirable:
- Experience of working with people with a learning disability in a person-centred way
- Previous experience in a customer-facing role
- Experience and understanding of audits and information governance.
Please refer to the job description for more detail regarding the main responsibilities and ideal candidate.
Package Description
As a Cleaner you’ll be part of our valued team at Carrswood Day Service, Twerton.
You will feel valued as a Cleaner within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- A salary of £20,319 (pro-rated to hours worked) with access to our group pension
- Free tea and coffee at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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