Housekeeping Support Worker

Do you enjoy housekeeping work, including cleaning, tidying and maintaining supplies?

Would you like your work to include talking to our residents (who are vulnerable adults), engaging with them and encouraging them to participate in daily activities?

Can you commute to High Wycombe?

You will be working in a friendly team, with colleagues and managers who will treat you with respect.

We can offer 25 hours per week., Location: This role is based on our High Wycombe Hostel based just off Handy Cross roundabout. We provide accommodation to 141 vulnerable adults and we need your help cleaning the communal areas and void properties.

You will work one day of the weekend in three as well as public holidays on a shared rota basis.

We would like you to bring an excellent knowledge of cleaning materials, a willingness to interact with people around you, and a thorough understanding of health & safety, and COSSH.

The primary focus of the role is to provide high quality cleaning services within all areas of the site, whilst also providing support to residents as part of the wider housing team.

The work includes:

Cleaning of all hostel and other allocated office and public areas, including all allocated rooms, corridors, bathrooms, showers, toilets, including vacuuming regularly, wiping ledges, sweeping stairs, cleaning glass, dusting, washing floors.
Emptying bins and removing rubbish from designated areas. May be required to take rubbish to skip or other location.
Maintain adequate supplies of toilet requisites in bathrooms and toilets.
Ensure the cleanliness of the YMCA site is maintained to the required standard.
Follow the work schedule and complete within time allocated.
Provide a high level of customer service to staff, residents and the general public.

An Enhanced Disclosure is required for this role.
This is a Part Time role.
Hours per week: 25
Working Pattern: Various Shifts Between 0600 - 1800 on a Rota with some weekend working

One YMCA and its subsidiaries, the Early Childhood Partnership (ECP) and Signpost are on an exciting journey to double our impact by 2025. We are over half way through an exciting new strategy launched in the first hour of the new decade, via email where all staff and volunteers were invited to put themselves forward to apply and attend an intensive, three-day Kickstarter Event.

By the end of these three days, there was a brilliantly multi-faceted set of themes and ideas, which formed the starting point for the rest of the Mission 25 process to build on. The aim of Mission 25 is to give every staff member and volunteer the opportunity to play their part in shaping the strategy to do "more and better, together" so that we double our impact by 2025. We deliver a vast array of services across Herts, Beds and Bucks that reach over 135,000 individuals annually.

These include:

• Provision of over 700 units of accommodation for homeless people


• Move on accommodation for individuals moving onto independent living


• Housing and practical/emotional support for young asylum seekers


• Community HUBs hosting a range of activities and meeting space hire


• Childcare provision in Hertfordshire


• Family support through a network of children's and family centres covering Hertfordshire and Bedford


• Therapeutic and non-therapeutic support for male and female victims of domestic abuse and their children


• Independent sexual violence services across Bedfordshire, Luton and Hertfordshire


• Domestic abuse perpetrator reform programmes across Bedfordshire


• Youth services offering emotional wellbeing support and youth club opportunities for 11-19 year olds alongside our National Airplay programme funded by the RAF Benevolent Fund


• A community gym where everyone can enjoy the benefits of physical exercise Our values remain at the forefront of how we operate as a charity, and it is important to us that all staff and volunteers can fully buy in to our ethos.
  
  Here at OneYMCA, we take pride in looking after our colleagues, as we know our people are the driving force behind our success. Therefore, alongside competitive pay and a fulfilling and supportive work environment, we offer various staff benefits including:



• Opportunity to accrue additional leave, up to 5 days


• Many learning and career development opportunities, with paid and tailored training


• Free Employee Assistance Programme 24/7 including access to counselling and GP services


• Employer contributory pension scheme


• Good maternity and paternity leave


• Compassionate leave


• Health and wellbeing opportunities


• Opportunities to volunteer with different parts of the organization through Mission 25 program


• Employee Discount scheme on brands, travel, groceries and more