# Housekeeping Assistant

**Company**: Bupa
**Location**: Northampton
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £12.90 per hour
**Category**: Facilities & Maintenance
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

As a Housekeeping Assistant at Richmond Village Northampton, you will play a vital role in maintaining a clean, safe, and welcoming environment for residents, visitors, and colleagues.

You will ensure high standards of cleanliness are achieved throughout the village, including residents' apartments and communal areas, helping to create a comfortable and pleasant place to live and work.

**Responsibilities:**

- Ensuring that residents' care home facilities, public areas, and individual properties are maintained to the highest cleaning standards

- Operating vacuum cleaners, floor polishers, and carpet shampooers

- Emptying bins regularly

- Sweeping, scrubbing, waxing, and polishing floors

- Cleaning carpets and upholstery and washing woodwork, windows, door panels, and sills

- Washing, drying, and ironing residents' clothing, bedding, and communal laundry, including for on-site care home residents

- Reporting all safety hazards to management, ensuring Health and Safety standards and COSSH are adhered to at all times.

**Requirements:**

- Experience in a housekeeping or domestic cleaning role, with a basic understanding of infection control, COSSH, and compliance standards

- Friendly and approachable, with strong communication skills and the ability to build long-lasting professional relationships with colleagues, residents, and their families

- A keen eye for detail and pride in your work

- Ability to work well as part of a team, across functions and services

**Benefits:**

- Flexible working patterns to fit around you

- Comprehensive induction (fully paid)

- Free meal (minimum 8-hour shift)

- DBS Check and Uniform provided and paid for by Bupa

- Access to discounts at a wide variety of gyms and fitness facilities across the UK

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## Skills

### Required
- infection control
- COSSH
- communication skills
- teamwork

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