Housekeeper, Fessey House
Job specification
Fessey House is not your “traditional” care home. Our 68 bed home comprises of 6 individual purpose built units, each of which include a kitchen, lounge and dining room.
Our service users are aged 65+, all with a cognitive impairment such as Dementia. It is a unique, modern environment, recently extended, with vast landscaped gardens and communal activity rooms for our residents to enjoy.
Fessey House aims to provide a supported living environment where older people can feel safe, secure and free to live their lives as independently as possible. Privacy, dignity and the right to make choices are paramount in our approach to providing the highest quality service for those who choose to make Fessey House their home.
Your next role
As a Housekeeper, you will join our friendly team, providing a high standard of cleaning, using your experience of domestic tasks which include cleaning, laundry and ensuring that equipment used is safe and in accordance with COSHH, Health and Hygiene regulations. In addition, you will be required to assist at meals times.
You must be fluent in the English language (as a requirement of Part 7 of the Immigration Act “for the effective performance of a customer-facing role”).
You will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check
About us
Fessey House operates with a mixture of shift patterns including “earlies” (8:00am start) and “lates” (9:30pm finish) or “nights” (9:30pm to 8:00am) on a rolling 2 week rota with a requirement to work every other weekend.
Fessey House is located on Brookdene in Haydon Wick, easily accessible by bus. To view Swindon’s bus timetable, please visit: Swindon's Bus Company - Buses across Swindon.
Your next Package
We have free parking on site, generous holiday entitlement, comprehensive Learning and Development programmes, an excellent local government pension and sickness schemes and many other benefits like discounts on shopping, eating out and entertainment, Health and Beauty, to name a but a few of our staff benefits. Please see our Rewards and Benefits for more details.
We also have an Employee Assistant Programme and App to support with legal, health, wellbeing, and other expert advice.
For Swindon to thrive in the future, we need to lay the foundations now. It’s why our regeneration and transformation programmes are already underway. So, you’ll be joining us at an exciting time on our journey. We’ll look to you to share your knowledge, influence decisions and drive real, positive change. With your contributions, we’ll achieve our vision of a prosperous, re-vitalised Swindon together. And you’ll be proud to say it was made better with you.
Please see our Vision and Values page for more details and our new Swindon Plan.
Potential applicants are sometimes put off if they don’t meet 100% of the requirements. We think individual experience, skills and passion make all the difference, so if you meet the majority of the criteria, we’d love to hear from you.
Your next steps
Read the role profile and select the Apply where you will be redirected to the Swindon Borough Council website to complete our online application process. Clicking the ‘Apply’ button on this job website is not an application, you must register on the Swindon Borough Council website in order to be considered for the role.
For further information regarding this opportunity, please contact Sharron Black, email sblack@swindon.gov.uk
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early so early applications are encouraged.
As an inclusive employer, we welcome applications from a diverse range of communities, and in particular disabled people and people from ethnic minorities. Read our statement of commitment to equality & inclusion.
If you are experiencing technical issues submitting your application please email resourcing@swindon.gov.uk