Head Housekeeper

Exemplar Health Care; Leicester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading care provider in Leicester is seeking a Head Housekeeper to ensure cleanliness and manage the housekeeping team at a new care home. You will be responsible for leading cleaning routines, overseeing team performance, and maintaining high standards of cleanliness. The ideal candidate is kind, energetic, and has a keen eye for detail. Prior supervisory experience is welcomed, along with a good standard of education. This position offers professional growth, peer support, and various employee benefits.

Benefits

regular supervision and peer support

access to wages before payday

retail and lifestyle discounts

free DBS check

24/7 counselling and support

Blue Light Card eligibility

Qualifications

• No specific qualifications required, supervisory experience preferred.
• Good standard of education, such as GCSEs in English and Maths, is useful.

Responsibilities

• Carry out cleaning schedules with your team, including dusting and vacuuming.
• Oversee the cleaning of all areas, including residents’ rooms and kitchens.
• Build trust and promote choice, dignity and independence.

Skills

kind, caring and understanding

great leader

keen eye for detail

excellent team player

high standards of cleanliness

positive can-do attitude

great listener and communicator

Education

GCSEs in English and Maths

Job description

Position:Head Housekeeper
Care home:Greenacre Park
Location:2 Elmdon Drive, Humberstone, Leicester, LE5 0BN
Contract type:Full time, 40 hours per week
Rate:£12.77 per hour

Do you take pride in your cleaning standards and attention to detail? As Head Housekeeper, you’ll ensure that our home is clean and welcoming home for the people who live and work here.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a brand new team, in a state of the art, purpose built home. You’ll have the chance to really make your mark.

Join us as our Head Housekeeper at Greenacre Parkcare home in Leicester.

About Exemplar Health Care

Greenacre Park is part of Exemplar Health Care, one of the country’s leading nursing care providers.

We support adults living with complex mental health needs, dementia, neuro-disabilities including brain injuries and strokes, Huntington’s disease and Parkinson’s disease, and physical disabilities including spinal injuries.

As well as stable and secure employment opportunities, we offer great benefits and perks, and plenty of opportunities to learn, develop and progress.

About the role

Our Head Housekeeper plays a key role in leading all the daily and weekly cleaning routines of their Housekeeping Team.

No two days will ever be the same, but your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• carrying out cleaning schedules with your team, including dusting, mopping, polishing and vacuuming
• overseeing your team’s cleaning of all areas, including residents’ rooms, lounges, kitchens, bathrooms, kitchens and offices
• building trust and promoting choice, dignity and independence.

You’ll put our people at the heart of everything you do – whether that’s hoovering our residents’ bedrooms or polishing their photo frames. We can guarantee that whatever you bring to the role, you’ll see great rewards.

If you haven’t worked in the care sector before, we’ll help you feel right at home from the start with our induction, buddy, and ongoing training programmes.

Above all, you’re someone who identifies with our values of fun, integrity, responsiveness, success and teamwork.

Key qualities and experience

• kind, caring and understanding
• a great leader, with the energy and enthusiasm to motivate your team
• someone with a keen eye for detail
• an excellent team player
• passionate about high standards of cleanliness, with outstanding housekeeping skills
• a positive person with a can-do attitude
• a great listener and communicator.

You don’t need any specific qualifications to apply for this role, but a good standard of education, such as GCSEs in English and Maths, may be useful. You’ll ideally also have supervisory experience in a similar role.

What we offer

• regular supervision, peer support, learning opportunities and career prospects
• access to wages before payday
• retail and lifestyle discounts
• free DBS check
• 24/7 counselling and support
• Blue Light Card eligibility.

How to apply

Sound good? We’d love to hear from you. Click the button to ‘APPLY NOW’.

For an informal chat about joining us, call us on 01977 630830 or email [e-mail].

Please note, applicants must be authorised to work in the UK. We’re unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.