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Midland Care Home is a beautiful care home in Wellingborough, and our goal is to provide the highest level of care and service to the people living here.
Our work environment includes:
- Modern care home setting
- A full complement of support from the Management team.
- A helpful and supportive head office team to assist when required.
Welcome to Midland Care Home!
We are a purpose-built care home that cares for up to 60 individuals with different levels of care needs.
We are looking for an individual to join our 'Head of Departments' team, leading our large team of ancillary staff, including housekeeping staff, laundry staff, and maintenance. We expect hotel style standards here at Midland and therefore require somebody that will continue to lead the way towards this level of service.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and supervise your staff team ensuring adequate cover in the various departments
- Produce weekly rotas for the departments.
- Manage, supervise, and work alongside a team of ancillary staff and induct new members of the team.
- Ensure scheduled and general repairs, renovations, maintenance, refurbishments, and decoration requirements are actioned and completed.
- Conduct regular 'walk about' inspections of the home to identify maintenance or improvement needs and address them promptly. Ensure all areas of your departments are fully stocked.
- Meet with the Manager daily to feedback on your departments and take instruction of anything that is needed urgently. For example - Getting a bedroom ready at short notice for somebody to move in to.
- Regular linen/crockery and care items stocktake, and order as needed.
- Identify and action any areas that may need renovation, cleaning or fixing to maintain highest service standards.
- Ensure all audits/cleaning schedules/temperature checks/equipment checks are documented and ready to be seen at any time by our regulators
- Preparing of vacant bedrooms into show rooms ready for people to move in to
- Completion of weekly compliance checks such as fire alarm, emergency lights, and water temperature.
Experience and Qualities:
- Working in a housekeeping role.
- Supervising a team or wanting the next step of leadership.
- Experience in working within a large team.
- Excellent communication skills in English, both verbal and written
- An eye for detail and not accepting of any areas of uncleanliness or faulty equipment. - An understanding of when to report issues that are beyond your position/role.
Note: This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. The employee may perform other related duties as negotiated to meet the ongoing needs of the organisation.
Hours
8am-2pm or 9am - 2pm. 5 days a week
Benefits:
- Company events
- Company pension
- Discounted or free food
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Store discount
Experience:
- Housekeeping: 1 year (preferred)
Please send your CV for immediate review.
