Location Linfield House
Salary £9.74 per hour
Hours of Work

24 hours per week

Closing date Shortlisted upon receipt
Proposed interview date/s (if known) TBC
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Guild Care are currently offering a £1000 welcome bonus to all successful new members of the team who take on a role in care, home care, community Support Worker roles (subject to terms and conditions).

Linfield House

Linfield House is a residential and nursing care home that includes two dementia suites. We promote independent living, providing residents with the support and person-centred care that they need to flourish.

Our care homes will treat you like part of the family when you become a Care Assistant. We expect you to provide our residents with compassionate and person-centred care, ensuring that their feelings are respected.

Guild Care positions you to provide effective care in accordance with its policies and procedures, and in compliance with best practice principles. You and your co-workers will help each other accomplish tasks while you get to know one another.

The staffing ratio in our homes is high, with an adaptable team formed around the residents' needs. In addition to providing nursing care around the clock, we have dedicated Health & Wellbeing Coordinators who provide regular and stimulating activities tailored to each individual.


The role

As a Housekeeping Assistant at Linfield House you will help to keep the interior of the building to a high standard of cleanliness and neatness, while observing safe working practices by following correct procedures (including Health and Safety, COSHH and other legislative requirements).

You will protect the privacy of personal choice and dignity of residents whilst paying attention to small details of what is important to each resident. This may involve working in specific areas of the Home as defined by the relevant Manager, with a specific list of scheduled tasks, as part of a team.
When you join our team, we will discuss with you what’s on offer and your career aspirations. You will meet our friendly, supportive Learning and Development Team and join our in-house trainers in our fantastic training facilities.
Why work for Guild Care? Our benefits, your career and who we are….

Career Pathway

At Guild Care, we are passionate about career progression for all our employees, we have developed clear learning pathways for all our job roles at Guild Care. We take everyone’s career goals seriously, whether you want to be an amazing Care Assistant or our next Director of Care. We’re proud that the average length of service for our care home senior management team is 17 years- many of whom started as Care Assistants and followed our career pathways.

Our Amazing Benefits at Guild Care…..
• Working for a local charity that has supported the community since 1933
• Welcome to Guild Care bonus (for eligible roles)- Up to £1000 for Registered Nurses and up to £1000 for Care, Home Care and Day Services Support Staff
• Refer a friend scheme- you could earn £500 for recommending a friend to Guild Care
• Buddy Incentive- you could receive up to £125 to support our new recruits in role, promoting a supportive and friendly environment for our newcomers (Care Services only)
• Competitive salaries
• 20-25 days holiday
• Pension scheme
• Sick pay
• Flexible shift patterns
• Free DBS check
• Excellent learning and development opportunities and clear defined care career pathway
• Supportive colleagues
• Job satisfaction
• Local offers for Guild Care staff
• Being part of a values- led organisation
Job Requirements

Essential

? Demonstrates appropriate interpersonal style with service users, visitors and colleagues
? Ability to provide a good standard of customer service
? The post holder must be able to provide a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Desirable

? Experience of working with older people.
? Demonstrates awareness of Dementia
? Knowledge of Health & Safety at Work procedures


Get in touch

For further information please email recruitment@guildcare.org or call our Recruitment Team on 01903 863154.
We reserve the right to close the vacancy upon successful selection of candidates, please apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.