Domestic Assistant / Housekeeper

Sodexo Group; Barnstaple; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job description

Join Our Team as a Housekeeper / Domestic Assistant at Sodexo! A role where the little details make a significant difference.

Are you ready to make a real difference every day? We’re on the lookout for a dedicated Housekeeper / Domestic Assistant to join our team at Sodexo in North Devon Hospital. In this vital role, you’ll help create a safe, clean, and welcoming environment for patients, staff, and visitors at our hospital.

We’re looking for someone with a strong work ethic, great organisational skills, and a passion for exceptional service. If you have experience in a similar role and take pride in keeping spaces spotless, we want to hear from you!

Be part of something greater. Join Sodexo today. You belong in a team where you can act with purpose and thrive in your own way.

What you’ll do:

• Ensure a safe and hygienic environment by maintaining cleanliness in patient rooms, wards, communal areas, restrooms, and other hospital spaces.
• Prepare patient areas with care by stripping and cleaning beds, as well as collecting and replacing linen.
• Maintain high hygiene standards by cleaning desks, walls, ceilings, vents, blinds, and other surfaces to promote a sterile environment.
• Keep floors spotless by dusting, mopping, vacuuming, sweeping, and polishing, while also restocking essential supplies.
• Manage waste effectively by emptying bins and disposing of waste safely and responsibly.
• Be a champion of health and safety, ensuring a clean, welcoming, and hazard-free space for patients, visitors, and staff.

What you bring:

• Physically capable of performing the hands-on tasks required for the role.
• Outstanding customer service skills, with a proactive and can-do attitude.
• Strong commitment to health and safety, ensuring a clean and secure environment.
• Professionalism in every aspect, including integrity, appearance, and demeanour.

What we offer:

Working with Sodexo is more than a job; it’s a chance to be part of something greater. You’ll belong in a company and team that values you for you; you’ll act with purpose and have an impact through your everyday actions; and you’ll be able to thrive in your own way. In addition, we also offer a range of resources, rewards and benefits for our colleagues and their families:

• Unlimited access to an online platform offering mental health and wellbeing support.
• Employee Assistance Programme to help with everyday issues or larger problems where you may need additional support, including legal and financial advice, support with work-related issues or personal issues such as bereavement.
• Access to a free health and wellbeing app that provides rewards for maintaining a healthy lifestyle and includes access to a 24hr virtual GP and various other services.
• The Sodexo Discounts Scheme, offering great deals 24/7 (also open to friends and family) and/or the prepayment cashback card.
• Money Insights and financial benefits via the Salary Finance Platform.
• Save for your future by becoming a member of the Sodexo Retirement Plan.
• A Death-in-Service benefit for colleagues who pass away whilst employed by Sodexo.
• Opportunities to enable colleagues to grow and succeed throughout their career at Sodexo, including a variety of learning and development tools.
• Cycle to Work Scheme to help colleagues to do their bit for the environment whilst keeping fit.
• Volunteering Opportunities to enable all colleagues to help support worthwhile causes in our communities.
• Flexible and dynamic work environment.
• Competitive compensation.
• Full training and full protective uniform supplied.

Ready to be part of something greater? Apply today! Make a fresh start in a company that cares.

Sodexo reserves the right to close this advertisement early if we are in receipt of a high volume of applications.

Package Description

A role you can feel good about.

• Available Contracts
  • Fixed Term & Permanent
  • Part-time & Full-time
  • Early, Late & Back Shifts
  • 15 hrs per week - 30 hrs
• £12.36 with enhancement pay up to £22.11
• 27-day annual leave (pro rata) + Public Holidays

At Sodexo, our purpose is to create a better every day for everyone to build a better life for all. As the global leader in services that improve the Quality of Life, we operate in 55 countries, serving over 100 million consumers each day through our unique combination of On-Site Food and FM Services, Benefits & Rewards Services and Personal & Home Services.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer. We are a forces friendly employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds, and identities. We encourage our employees to get involved with our Employee Networks such as Pride, Sodexo Parents & Carers, Sodexo Disability, Ability network, So Together, Generations and Origins.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations. We run a Disability Confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria for the job.

Click here to read more about what we do to promote an inclusive culture.