Laundry Assistant in Edinburgh

Care UK is one of the UK’s leading providers of health and social care services. Join our Hotel Services team and you’ll be playing a vital part in making residents’ lives better on a daily basis.

Whatever role you take on, you’ll be working as part of a close-knit team to improve the daily lives of the people we care for. You’ll be dedicated to achieving the highest standards and to providing the ultimate in customer service. You will also be flexible, reliable and love working as part of a team.

As a Laundry Assistant you’ll launder and iron our residents’ clothing to the highest standards, putting it away tidily and ensuring wardrobes and drawers are always clean and neat.

• Carry out all cleaning duties as directed by the Head Housekeeper to the required Company standards. Cleaning duties can be in any area of the nursing home.
• Ensure that daily and deep cleaning schedules are adhered to.
• Maintain a high standard of personal presentation and hygiene.
• Ensure that all cleaning equipment is correctly and safely used and kept in a safe condition. Report any defect to the Home Manager.
• Carry out any other reasonable instructions of the Home Manager.
• To be sensitive to the privacy and individual needs of the residents.
• To comply with COSHH regulations.
• To adhere to infection control polices at all times.
• To ensure the correct use of PPE.
• To follow the correct use of colour code systems within the home 
• Carry out other ad hoc duties as requested by the Head Housekeeper or Home Manager.
• To ensure all necessary documentation is completed daily.
• To ensure trolley’s are re-stocked at the end of shift and cleaning cupboards are left clean and tidy

• Previous cleaning experience
• Ability to communicate on the telephone
• Good communication skills both written and verbal
• Able to carry out instructions accurately.
• A knowledge of health and safety
• An understanding of infection control
• Flexible and reliable attitude to working arrangements
• Committed to customer care and first class service provision
• Ability to work alone as well as part of a team
• Adaptable, friendly, polite, courteous and caring

• Basic education, including English and Maths

Our care home’s name, Scottish Gaelic for ‘friends and relatives’, sums up the welcome you’ll receive, as well as our approach to care.

Here at Cairdean House, in Colinton, south west Edinburgh, we offer the highest standards of nursing, residential and respite care for older people, including those who are living with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. Our 90-bedroom purpose-built care home opened in early 2013 and has already established a strong reputation for its expertise and ground-breaking approach.

Inspiring design

Cairdean House is a care home with a difference. It has been innovatively designed by internationally renowned architect, Richard Pollock and sits in the beautiful village of Colinton in Edinburgh. Richard and his team created the design with every thought for the needs of older people, particularly those living with dementia, and the smallest of details are considered in their approach. Find out more about Cairdean House’s specialist design.