Domestic/Cleaner

Role Details

Job Title: Domestic/Cleaner

Reports to: Housekeeper

Job Overview: (Note - In addition to these functions, • To provide cleaning services within the organisation in accordance employees are with agreed standards, legislative requirements, relevant required to carry out regulations and in line with accepted best practices such duties as may reasonably be required)

Location: The service’s premises, but you may be required to work from other locations at the discretion of the company and with appropriate notice.

Working Hours: 5 days over a 7-day period, as agreed with the manager.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Job

The Domestic/Cleaner responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• Assist in the assessment of the effectiveness of cleaning implementation and delivery
• Implement action to meet and maintain cleaning standards
• Evaluate standards of cleaning competence
• Ensure the service users’ rights are protected
• Be responsible for promoting and protecting the welfare of those individuals supported by the service

Working with Others:

• Develop effective working relationships with the other employees within the service

Other Duties:

Other duties and responsibilities to be undertaken may include any (or all) of the items in the following list:

• Seek opportunities for personal and professional growth
• Take responsibility for your own professional development through performance and development reviews and undertake any Personal and relevant training
• To maintain cleaning skills at a current level and undertake such training and development as may from time-to-time be required in order to maintain that currency of practice

Person Specification

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Specific Requirement for Qualifications

Essential Desirable

Relevant vocational qualification in Cleaning and Support Services

Specific Requirement for Skills

Essential Desirable

Proficient Written Skills

Ensure accurate, legible cleaning schedules are kept and maintained

Communication Skills

Good English, written and verbal

To communicate effectively with service users and their visitors

Knowledge

Specific Requirement for Skills

Essential Desirable

Disposition/Personal Attributes

Specific Requirement for Previous Experience

Essential Desirable

Previous experience of working in a similar environment

Previous experience of working as a domestic

Experience of working with service users who have additional support needs

Specific Requirement for Immunisations/Vaccinations

Essential Desirable

Values-based Personal Qualities

Area Specific Requirement

• Involve service users, families, external agencies and Working Together colleagues
• Speak up when things go wrong
• Understand person-centred care and can demonstrate Respect and treating people as individuals and respecting choices Dignity • Promoting independence and encouraging appropriate risk taking
• Ensuring no one is discriminated against or excluded
• Understand human rights and impact on care delivery Everybody • Facilitating people to ‘speak up’ about concerns and acting Counts upon them
• Striving for quality in everything we do recognising and understanding what quality in care means for people using the services
• Being accepting about criticism and focusing on Commitment to improvement
• Being open to new opportunities for learning and identifying the limits of skills and knowledge
• Treating people with kindness
• Understanding the importance of empathy in all areas of Compassion employment
• Understanding the values of others and always providing a caring service
• Focus on how things could be done better and sharing ideas
• Understanding of wellbeing and what is important to people using the service
• Improving outcomes for people Improving Lives
• Ensuring appropriate services are provided for people using the services

Company Values

At [Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk] Group, we are dedicated to maintaining our resident’s quality of life, whether this is low-level day-to-day support or specialist Dementia care.

We feel strongly that our residents should have the freedom to make decisions about their own care, and we work with them and their families to create a truly resident-centered care plan that ensure that every aspect of their need is being met. And since things can change over time, we’ll review this regularly with everyone involved to ensure that the care we offer always fulfils what’s required to keep them safe, healthy and happy.

We have 5 core values that we follow here at [Employer hidden] these are:

• We Care
• We Protect
• We Encourage
• We Accommodate
• We Understand