AddressYMCA Robin Hood Group provides housing support for vulnerable adults and young people (aged 16+) at our Shakespeare Street accommodation building in Nottingham City Centre comprising of 98 individual rooms.
We are recruiting for a Domestic Assistant to work 16 hours per week, Monday to Friday to ensure our properties are clean, tidy and safe for our residents. Focusing mainly on the communal areas of the building, you will also prepare resident bedrooms for new residents before they move in.
In addition to being a brilliant Domestic Assistant, you will also share in our belief that everyone should have a fair chance to discover who they are and what they can become.
Working as part of a wider team, you will work together to follow the cleaning schedules to ensure we meet our SLA's,
On a weekly basis you can expect to clean:
- Wipe down, dust and hoover stairs and corridors
- Lounge/Dining Room
Dust
Wipe down and sanitise surfaces, tables, TVs, light switches and door handles
- Clean the kitchen
Wipe down all surfaces, cupboard doors and sink
Mop the floors
Clean ovens, microwave, kettle and toaster
- Clean the bathroom
Clean shower and/or bath, sink, toilet
Clean mirrors and shower glass
Mop the floors
- Hoover throughout
- Empty bins
On a monthly basis, you will also:
- Deep Clean Carpets with use of Vac machine.
- Defrost and deep clean fridge/freezer
- Clean internal windows
We will supply all the products and equipment you need and also provide full health and safety/COSHH training to ensure you are working in a safe manner.
It goes without saying, you will take a huge amount of pride in your work and have the highest standards in your work.
You are likely to have worked in a domestic or commercial cleaning role before and be confident and comfortable working in an highly diverse and varied role where genuinely no day is ever the same!
We hope you will see this role as a way of supporting our residents and have the patience and understanding to support their journey to independent living beyond their time with us. You will get to know our residents as you visit their home and we hope you would foster a positive, and trusted relationship. We would also want you to know you could report anything that gave you concern about their well-being or safety knowing that we would be able to intervene and support them should they need it.
There might be occasion where you are lone working so we use the People Safe app to ensure your safety while in the properties.
If you are looking to work for an organisation who cares about you and your wellbeing, the YMCA prides itself on the package of wellbeing we support all our employees.
At YMCA Robin Hood Group, you will have many additional benefits, including but not limited t
- Comprehensive well-being package
- 23 day annual leave increasing 1 day each year for your first 5 years!
- Flexible bank holidays to take to celebrate the cultural and religious events important to you
- Private medical and dental cashback scheme
- Westfield Rewards for high street discounts
- Regular ongoing inhouse training
- External training to support up to postgraduate level 7 studies to support your development
- Eligible to join the Blue Light Discount scheme
- Workplace pension
- 4 x Life Insurance/Death in Service
- Pastoral support
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Excellent opportunities for development and progression in an exciting expanding organisation
- £500 refer a friend scheme applicable across the Group
- Reduced school holiday childcare costs at YMCA Camp Williams
- 10% off in our hospitality venues
This post is subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS check (paid for by YMCA) and registration with the DBS Update Service. We reserve the right to withdraw this role before the closing date should we be able to appoint to the role.
