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Laundry Assistant- weekends - Woodlands
- Application closing date: 20 Jun 2025 00:00
Job Description
Let your brilliance shine with Sussex Housing & Care.
We have exciting opportunities for people looking for a new career. Perhaps you’re looking for work, or have spent recent months reflecting on your life goals?
If you’re looking for job satisfaction, to be part of a friendly and supportive team, and to brighten people’s lives, look no further. You don’t need to have experience in working in a care home, we will train and support you from the very beginning. We offer a competitive salary, flexible hours, benefits and bonus schemes.
If you share our values;
- to put residents at the heart of everything you do;
- to care about what you do and the impact you have;
- to treat everyone with fairness, dignity, kindness and respect; and
- to make a difference together as one team...
…come and #CareWithUs. We are a Real Living Wage employer and we care about our people.
More about the role:
- Collecting the residents’ laundry as per the rota in the morning and return to the resident the same day or informing residents of any outstanding laundry.
- Ensuring that all clothes washed are dried correctly using the tumble dryer, ensuring that it is set at the correct temperature depending on the type of fabric.
- You will be responsible for ironing clothes and linen ensuring that that iron is set to the correct temperature and not left unattended
- Collecting and sorting soiled linen into the correct categories ensuring that soiled items are not washed with unsoiled items.
Candidate Requirements
- The ability to recognise that residents' rooms and belongings are personal and private
- Have an awareness of Health and Safety and COSH regulations
- Excellent time management skills
- Good communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Awareness of Manual Handling regulations.
- The ability to demonstrate safe practices.
Employment Details
- Employment Type: Permanent
- Hours: 12 hours per week
- Pay: £12.60 Hourly
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Additional Information
Hours of work: 12 hours per week — Saturday and Sunday
In return, you’ll get a competitive salary, access to other benefits and bonus schemes. We’ll give you excellent support and continuous learning and development, as well as free uniform and parking. Sussex Housing & Care is a not for profit organisation which means that we reinvest any financial surplus back into the organisation to benefit our residents and employees. We are also an accredited Real Living Wage employer.
