Total 5 job vacancies by Care UK Plc

Are you a passionate and caring individual looking for a rewarding career with excellent training and opportunities for development? Join Care UK, a multi award winning care provider as a Care Assistant.

The Role


Helping residents to remain as active and independent as possible
Support residents with personal care and mealtimes
Helping identify residents’ unique goals and implement personalised care plans
Supporting residents to explore new interests and engage in physical activities in a motivating and homely environment


Some of our benefits by joining the Care UK family


Wagestream- access your wages at any-time
Bank Holiday Pay Enhancements
Career development, training and access to our approved apprenticeship scheme
Hundreds of online and in-store discounts
Annual purchase holiday scheme
Wellbeing support


New to Care?

We have our own Learning Academy to provide excellent training and induction programs for all new carers and support workers and we will give you all that’s needed to have a successful career as a carer with us. Our high quality, innovative training and coaching will support the development of your skills throughout your career with us.

We are looking for people to make a difference to residents’ lives every day. When you join Care UK you’ll be joining a team who all share the same values: caring, passionate and teamwork. You will have a strong desire to help people and put residents at the heart of everything you do.

We are committed to recruiting diverse, talented people, who share our passion for helping others. We see the potential in everyone, let us help fulfil yours.

Are you a passionate and caring individual looking for a rewarding career with excellent training and opportunities for development? Join Care UK, a multi award winning care provider as a Care Assistant.

The Role


Helping residents to remain as active and independent as possible
Support residents with personal care and mealtimes
Helping identify residents’ unique goals and implement personalised care plans
Supporting residents to explore new interests and engage in physical activities in a motivating and homely environment


Some of our benefits by joining the Care UK family


Wagestream- access your wages at any-time
Bank Holiday Pay Enhancements
Career development, training and access to our approved apprenticeship scheme
Hundreds of online and in-store discounts
Annual purchase holiday scheme
Wellbeing support


New to Care?

We have our own Learning Academy to provide excellent training and induction programs for all new carers and support workers and we will give you all that’s needed to have a successful career as a carer with us. Our high quality, innovative training and coaching will support the development of your skills throughout your career with us.

We are looking for people to make a difference to residents’ lives every day. When you join Care UK you’ll be joining a team who all share the same values: caring, passionate and teamwork. You will have a strong desire to help people and put residents at the heart of everything you do.

We are committed to recruiting diverse, talented people, who share our passion for helping others. We see the potential in everyone, let us help fulfil yours.

If you have a passion for helping others to get the most out of life and some experience gained in a similar role, joining Care UK as a Lifestyle Coordinator may be the right move for you. A rewarding career that comes with great training, you’ll have a real opportunity to develop in our fast paced, expanding business.



Being a Lifestyle Coordinator at Care UK

Lifestyle Coordinators at Care UK have the ability to understand residents’ needs and go the extra mile to support them to live a fulfilling life. They enjoy sharing ideas with others and strive to find ways to improve residents’ quality of life. With a formidable ‘can-do’ approach to their work, lots of initiative and team player skills, they’re keen to continuously learn and improve too. Do you have the same sort of attributes?



What you’ll be doing

Being a Lifestyle Coordinator is about creating, organising and communicating a varied programme of activities for residents. It’s also about empowering each resident individually, assisting them with their ability to participate and enabling them to achieve their goals. You’ll do this by spending quality time with residents and their families in order to gain a full understanding of their interests and aspirations. Meaningful activity is the result and the responsibility of all colleagues input, so you’ll work closely with the team to involve everyone in the home and make this successful. Put simply, it’s about making a difference. A real difference.



What you’ll need

Some relevant experience is essential, as is the ability to compile social care plans for residents and maintain confidentiality. We’ll also be looking for excellent interpersonal skills and a flair for prioritising a busy workload. Someone who’s able to retain information and carry out instructions accurately, keeping accurate written records is important too. Above all, you have a natural ability to help make the lives of others more enjoyable and want to work in an environment where the work can be challenging, but also fun, fullfilling and rewarding.



The benefits



Competitive rates of pay – we continuously review pay in your local market
Opportunities to progress through our personalised career paths into more senior and management roles whilst growing your earnings
Earn whilst you learn and take on a variety of apprenticeships applicable to your role enabling you to increase your pay once achieved
Competitive refer a friend scheme of up to £1000 depending on role
Quality and free training to help develop and enhance your skills
Cycle to work scheme
Free DBS
Thousands of online and in-store discounts across big known retailers enabling our colleagues to make big savings on every day shopping such as holidays, supermarkets and travel.
Employee Assistance Programme – Immediate access to a confidential telephone counselling and legal information service which operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to include support such as financial and family concerns




One of the UK’s leading care home providers, Care UK run over 120 homes and day clubs across the UK that provide residential, nursing, dementia and end-of-life care for older people. A top rated employer in best quality results, our goal is to help every employee fulfil their potential by providing first-class training and support.



Fulfilling lives, fulfilling Careers.

Housekeeping Assistant

Are you looking for a Housekeeping Assistant/Domestic role that makes a real difference?

Do you pride yourself with creating and maintaining a clean, relaxing, homely environment for others?

Yes? Here is what makes Care UK different.

Care UK is one of the largest care providers in the UK with over 120 homes. Residents are at the heart of everything we do and so we are offering Cleaners and Housekeeping Assistants the opportunity to make a difference to our resident’s lives whilst undertaking a very important role. This is a chance to work for an industry leader with a holistic and person centred approach to care, and working as part of a close team there is real opportunity to grow and develop your career.

Led by the Head Housekeeper, you’ll be responsible for carrying out all cleaning duties including communal areas, resident’s rooms and en-suites. You’ll make sure on a daily basis that deep cleaning tasks are carried out to a high standard, complying with infection control guidelines. It’s important that you respect the privacy and individual needs of the residents. You’ll also need to be comfortable doing some paperwork and re-stocking cleaning supplies as required. It’s a rewarding role and a supportive workplace where we all pull together.

You may or may not have worked in a care home before but it is important to us that you are a caring, positive person with a strong attention to detail whilst taking pride in ensuring a clean and welcoming environment for our residents as well as families and visitors.

We value our colleagues, rewarding them with a great benefits package. This includes, but is not limited to; competitive hourly rates with paid overtime, bank holiday enhancements, free uniform, childcare vouchers, cycle to work scheme, a wide range of retail discounts and access to a calendar of free training to help enhance your skills.

Job Summary

Creating spotless, hospitable and comfortable care homes where residents love to live is vital to what we do at Care UK.

Care UK is one of the UK’s leading providers of health and social care services. As our Head Housekeeper you’ll be central to making our home a palace for residents, their guests and visitors alike.

You’ll lead and supervise the hostess, housekeeping and laundry teams to ensure the home meets the highest standards of hospitality and cleanliness at all times. Daily tasks might include updating the team rota to ensure we’re fully staffed, liaising with residents about the best times to clean their rooms. Above all, you’ll ensure residents and their guests don’t want for anything and that everything runs smoothly 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Are you an experienced head housekeeper - you could be from any sector – and keen to take on a role with more meaning? Are you a great supervisor with a positive ‘can do’ attitude and superb people skills? Do you have a warm personality and great sense of humour that makes you popular with everyone? If so, we’ll treat you to flexible hours and a competitive rate of pay that will add sparkle to your career.

Responsible To Home Manager


Key Responsibilities


Prepare and maintain a 4 week Rota, ensuring the Housekeeping and Hostess teams are adequately staffed at all times.
To instruct the Housekeeping team in their role and required duties / allocation.
To instruct the Hostess team in their required duties.
To provide hospitality services to residents and their guests. Serving meals, snacks and beverages at their request in the location of their choice.
Daily to ensure all displayed menus and meal information throughout the home is correct and up to date.
To consult with residents on a regular basis to ensure that their needs and choices are being met. Obtain feedback from residents and staff regarding cleaning and laundry quality to ensure that we are meeting the needs of the home and our residents at all times.
To ensure that all cleaning and laundry consumables are ordered from current nominated suppliers in line with Company purchasing policy.
To ensure stock takes are carried out at the end of each month.
To work within agreed budget guidelines on staff costs and consumables and to co-operate in any action necessary so as to keep to budget.
To implement and maintain cleaning schedules for the entire home and ensure that they are adhered too.
To ensure cleaning of all areas of the home are to the highest standard, including grounds.
Establish and maintain a rapport with individual residents and agree a convenient time to carry out cleaning of their personal rooms.
To organise deep cleaning duties when required.
To ensure the laundry of residents clothing is to the highest standard, including ironing.
Ensure the Laundry team collect and return laundry to the correct area of the home on a regular basis, and put away personal clothing of residents in a neat and tidy manner.
Ensure that all residents’ wardrobes and clothing drawers are kept clean, neat and tidy.
Ensure deliveries are checked against order forms and ensure that invoices are accurate, and to action any discrepancies immediately.
Ensure catering, cleaning and laundry supplies are stored safely and used effectively to minimise wastage.
Maintain a high standard of hygiene within the home and adhere to COSSH guidelines.
Maintain health and safety in the home by adhering to the company’s policies and procedures at all times, including instructions in the Facilities Manual.
To co-operate with requests from the Home Manager and residents wherever possible.
To attend resident/relative meetings whenever possible.



Skills & Experience


Experience of supervising a team of staff.
To understand and ability to adhere to infection control, health and safety/COSHH guidelines
Proven communication skills both written and verbal.
Proven ability to organise priorities.
To recruit, motivate and lead a team of staff
Ability to appreciate the needs of others
Ability to work as part of a team
Ability to work unsupervised, using initiative and maintain professional standards, even when under pressure
Flexible to meet the needs of the home
Smart appearance, good personal hygiene standards.
Sense of humour and a lively, sociable personality
Shares ideas with others [to make improvements]
Keen to learn and improve own performance
Committed to communicate with customers to understand their needs
Will go the extra mile to help fulfil customers’ needs
Has a ‘can-do’ attitude to work
Enjoys working effectively as part of a team



Qualifications


GCSEs (or equivalent) including English and Maths