Housekeeper in Hereford

At Elysium Healthcare, all of our colleagues help to change lives for the better. If you have an eye for detail and enjoy creating a clean environment for some of the most vulnerable people in society, then join the team at Stanley House as a Housekeeper. You will work 37.50 hours a week and will not be under insane pressure and stress. 

Working alongside a proactive Housekeeping team, you will ensure all areas of the service are spotless and be able to confidently deliver high standard cleaning services, including wards, office spaces, visitor areas and bedrooms. You will be responsible for reporting any damages or faults that you may find to your manager.

You will be a valued member of the team and will have access to a variety of Elysium benefits and training courses to help you reach your career goals.

Role - Housekeeper

Location - Bosbury, Hereford (Near Ledbury)

Salary - Competitive 

Hours - 37.50 Full time

Your Responsibilities: 

• Ensuring the standards of cleanliness are maintained
• Ensuring an effective cleaning service is provided by the household team and that this is documented effectively
• Providing and maintaining a good level of cleanliness for the unit
• Ensuring all documentation relating to any housekeeping roles is completed and correct
• Regularly checking that all of the housekeeping duties are carried out to a high standard
• Communicating appropriately with others involved with the care of the patient
• Carrying out any reasonable instructions of the Health and Safety lead
• Reporting any equipment malfunction to the Health and Safety lead
• Ensuring that you are familiar with all of Elysium Healthcare’s policies and procedures

To be successful in this role, you will:

• Experience of working within a care home/hospital environment
• Ability to communicate and work as part of a team.
• Able to work on own initiative.
• Keen to learn and improve own performance
• Will go the extra mile to help fulfill customers’ needs
• Has a ‘can-do’ attitude to work
• Able to work under pressure, responding to customer needs and complaints

Where you will be working:

Location: Bosbury, Hereford, Herefordshire, HR8 1HB 

You will be working at Stanley House, a service which offers a multidisciplinary approach to its long term care provision and provides the specialised care and expert therapeutic interventions. 

You will working alongside the multidisciplinary team to support and enable residents to undergo reviews of their specific and/or changing needs. Stanley House offers therapies and activities which include Physiotherapy and Art therapy and receives input from a Professor in Neuropsychiatry and monthly specialist GP clinics.

What you will get:

• Annual salary
• The equivalent of 33 days annual leave – plus your birthday off!
• Free meals and parking
• Wellbeing support and activities
• Career development and training
• Pension contribution
• Life Assurance
• Enhanced Maternity Package

There is also a range of other benefits including retail discounts and special offers, car leasing without a credit check, holiday financing and much more.

About your next employer

You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with a unique approach to the delivery of care. 

Each and every employee is valued and supported, as everyone has an important role to play in the success of Elysium. It is only with the dedication, passion and hard work from staff that excellent care programs that truly benefit the service users can be delivered.

With a network of over 70 services across England and Wales, providing four services including: Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move with Elysium.

Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility and are committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of service users. Candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS disclosure.