Laundry Assistant - Evenings
Willowbeck, Sheffield
Position: Laundry Assistant
Care home: Willowbeck
Location: 95 Holywell Road, Sheffield, S4 8AR
Contract type: . Part time, 20 hours per week Pm shifts only 17:25-22:00
Rate: Up to £11.44ph
Join us as a Laundry Assistant at Willowbeck care home in Sheffield. In this role, you’ll provide an in-house laundry service for the people who live in our home.
As part of our Housekeeping Team, you’ll ensure that people have clean clothing and bed linen by providing an efficient laundry service which involves sorting, washing, drying and ironing.
This is an exciting opportunity to use your skills to make a real difference every day. You’ll play a vital role in ensuring that people feel comfortable and at home.
About Exemplar Health Care
Willowbeck is part of Exemplar Health Care, one of the country’s leading nursing care providers.
We support adults living with complex mental health needs, neurological conditions including brain injuries and strokes, and physical disabilities. The team is trained to support those living with tracheostomies and require ventilated care.
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 Laundry Assistants ensure that people have clean and fresh clothing and linen.
No two days will ever be the same, but your day-to-day responsibilities will include:
- providing an in-house laundry service ensuring that items in the laundry are cared for and not lost or damaged on your shift
- sorting, washing, drying and ironing clothing and linen
- operating all laundry equipment in line with manufacturer’s instructions
- providing a repair service for damaged and worn articles of clothing, linen and household furnishings
- establishing and maintaining systems for distributing and controlling people’s personal clothing, including labelling
- building trust and promoting choice, dignity and independence.
You’ll put our people at the heart of everything you do – whether that’s handwashing woolly jumpers or machine-washing new bedding. 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.
Download our job description to read more: https://brochures.exemplarhc.com/view/189266962/
About you
We value relevant experience but it isn’t essential for this role.
Above all, you’re someone who identifies with our values of fun, integrity, responsiveness, success and teamwork.
You’re also:
- passionate about providing an effective and efficient laundry service
- kind, caring and understanding
- an excellent team player
- a positive person with a can-do attitude
- a great listener and communicator.
What we offer
We offer great rewards and perks including:
- 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 pod8@exemplarhc.com.
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.
About Willowbeck
Willowbeck is a specialist care home that supports up to 80 adults living with complex mental health needs, neuro-disabilities and physical disabilities.
The home has seven small units, each with its own specialism. In a care or nursing role, you’ll usually work on one of our units so you can get to know the people you support and develop the clinical skills to support their complex needs.
Our units include a mental health unit for those who identify as male, a unit for those with nursing care needs such as tracheostomies and PEG feeding tubes, and a unit for people with high functioning mental health.
About Exemplar Health Care
Exemplar Health Care is a leading provider of specialist nursing care for adults living with complex and high acuity needs.
Our mission is to make ‘every day better’ for the people we support and our colleagues.
We’re proud of the culture that we’ve created at Exemplar Health Care, which is underpinned by our vision, mission and values.
Learning and career development
Our sector-leading learning and development opportunities give you the skills and support to excel in your role and take your career to the next level.
- Welcome induction and role specific induction
- Care Certificate for new care colleagues
- Exemplar Positive Behaviour Support (EPBS) training
- Role specific apprenticeships, diplomas and qualifications
- ABC of Caring programme for Health Care Assistants
- Leadership and management development programmes
Rewards and benefits
Our care homes live and breathe because of the incredible colleagues who work in them.
Our rewards and benefits are just some of the ways we like to say thank you.
- Paid DBS check
- Lifestyle and retail discounts
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Access wages early via fastP.A.Y.E
- Company Shop membership
- Paid NMC membership for Registered Nurses
Our values
Our values underpin everything that we do and ensure that we continue to make every day better for our people.
We look for these values in everyone who works with us.
- Fun
- Integrity
- Responsive
- Success
- Teamwork