About Our Home:

The New Deanery is a 93-bedroom care home set on glorious six-acre grounds, situated in Braintree. The home provides a safe and comfortable ‘home away from home’ environment and combines this with high-quality care for its residents, with engaging lifestyle activities.

We are looking for 28 hours staff to join us.

What you'll be doing!

  • Ensuring that all records relating to housekeeping including cleaning schedules are completed daily
  • Organising Domestic Staff with the daily duties which includes: -
  • The vacuuming of rooms and corridors and emptying all waste bins
  • Cleaning the glass and mirrors
  • Dusting
  • Sweeping and mopping floor surfaces
  • Cleaning the bathrooms and toilets, with particular attention to guidelines for the control of germs and infestation
  • Clean areas as assigned
  • To clean all allocated rooms including furniture, fittings, fabric, carpets and equipment
  • Ensure that rooms are odour free
  • To be aware of the health and safety statement of the COSHH statement
  • To report any malfunction of equipment or fittings that require maintenance or cannot be kept to standard through normal cleaning procedures
  • To report any cleaning materials that need replacing to the appropriate person
  • Keep your cleaning area and space clean and tidy at all times and your cleaning materials safely stored
  • To deal with the waste bags and their prescribed disposal
  • Be familiar with the required care standards regulations governing your job including infection control

What we'll do for you!

  • £11.50 per hour
  • ESAS – Salary Advance
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Perkbox
  • Employee of the Month
  • Long term service awards
  • Blue Light Card
  • Professional Development
  • Refer a Friend