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Housekeeper
Location: Osgathorpe, Leicestershire
Job Type: Part-time, 22.5 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: £20,666 - £25,833 per annum (depending on experience)
Benefits: Generous annual leave allowance, salary exchange pension scheme, life assurance, occupational sick pay, dog-friendly offices.
Closing date: 19-04-2024
If you have experience working in housekeeping or hospitality and you are excited about the opportunity to work for a national assistance dog charity, this could be the role for you!
Their mission is to change the lives of disabled people using expertly trained dogs to improve physical, emotional, and social well-being.
To help them create amazing partnerships they need amazing people. They have an exciting opportunity for a Housekeeper to join their dedicated housekeeping team.
This is an incredible role at a prominent assistance dog charity where your role will be a part of their essential work that transforms lives every day.
What you will do:
You will be working within a small team to provide housekeeping cover, cleaning and catering for their on-site training courses, and overnight stays by their clients, staff, or other site users. You will be responsible for ensuring all areas of the site are kept clean to the highest standard and support the housekeeping and catering needs in all aspects of the charity's work.
What they are looking for:
- Highly effective interpersonal skills.
- Excellent communication skills across a range of audiences.
- Experience in providing cleaning services.
- Ability to plan, prepare and cook hot and cold meals.
- Basic understanding of nutrition including knowledge of special dietary needs and food allergies.
- Some knowledge of human physical disabilities.
- Level 2 food hygiene certificate or willingness to obtain one.
- Flexibility to take on additional hours as needed.
You will be happy to work as part of a team and on your own initiative whilst being personable and approachable to all service users. The role requires some heavy and strenuous cleaning duties therefore it is essential that you have the physical capability to carry out these tasks safely.
Most importantly you will be passionate about the transformative impact that their assistance dogs provide to their beneficiaries.
They can offer you:
- Generous annual leave allowance
- Salary exchange pension scheme
- Charity sick pay
- Life assurance
- Employee assistance programme
- Wellbeing portal
- Free on-site parking
- Dog-friendly offices
This role benefits from working at their purpose-built training centre in the rural countryside of Osgathorpe, Leicestershire - some local travel to and from the training centre may be required for weekly shopping trips and collecting/dropping off clients. This is a working training centre therefore you must be comfortable with dogs in the workplace.
The basic hours for the role are 22.5 hours per week, normally 3 days per week however hours will vary depending on charity activities. Some work may include evenings (up to 6.30 pm) and weekends to support on-site training courses for their clients. Working hours will be agreed on a 4-weekly basis. Time off in lieu or overtime pay will be available as appropriate for additional hours worked.
If this sounds like the right role for you, they would be delighted to hear from you. Please apply online with a comprehensive CV and supporting statement explaining how you believe you match the requirements of the role.
All interviews will take place at their training centre.
They recognize the benefit of diverse experiences and therefore welcome and encourage applications from all sections of the community. They are a disability confident committed employer.
You may also have experience in the following: Domestic Team Leader, Housekeeping Assistant, Housekeeper, Housekeeping, Cleaner, Cleaning Assistant, Cleaning Operative, Hospitality Assistant, Cleaning Supervisor, Cleaning Manager. Catering assistant, etc.
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Are you a proactive, compassionate and collaborative individual with a proven record of working with those who have complex needs and often do not engage with services? Do you have strong experience of successfully working with challenging people and supporting them to make progress?
If so, join St Giles as a Beyond the Gate Caseworker, where you will work on an innovative project piloting a new approach supporting individuals affected by the Criminal Justice system at higher risk of suicide and self-harm.
About St Giles Trust
An ambitious, well-established charity that helps people facing adversity to find jobs, homes and the right support they need. Central to our ethos is our belief that people with first-hand experience of successfully overcoming issues such as an offending background, homelessness, addictions and gang involvement, hold the key to positive change in others.
About this key role
As our Beyond the Gate Caseworker, you will provide a community-based service that engages, motivates and facilitates those on license to make progress, through a range of one-to-one sessions, group activities, training and supportive measures. You will work with your caseload of clients to produce individual action plans that support them to overcome social inclusion barriers, including housing, substance misuse, relationships, training, employment, finance debt and benefit, and deliver a range of planned custody and community assessments and interventions that keep clients engaged, motivated, and making progress.
We will also count on you to ensure all immediate appointments on release are attended such as probation, mental health, housing and substance misuse, and the delivery of small group activities based on need, including tenancy management, emotional wellbeing, shopping on a budget. Liaising constructively with HM Prison Service and Probation personnel to share updates and completing referrals into services as soon as possible after release and map out a support plan for this are also both key aspects of the role, as are working flexibly, covering absences for colleagues, and supporting the delivery lead.
What we are looking for
- Proven track record of supporting ex-offenders
- Qualification in Advice and Guidance or equivalent, to at least Level 3
- A sound understanding of the issues faced by the client group, such as housing, debt, substance misuse, mental health
- Excellent administrative and case management skills
- The ability to assess participants’ needs and provide client led support
- Excellent interpersonal, relationship-building and communication skills, verbal and written
- A flexible, collaborative and professional approach to your work.
Please note this role requires an Enhanced Adult DBS checks.
In return, you can expect a competitive salary, generous leave allowance, staff pension, flexible working, a mentoring programme, an advice and counselling service, season ticket loan and much more.
We are an equity and inclusion confident employer. We welcome all applications and we particularly encourage applications from people of the global majority (black, brown, multi- heritage) and those who identify as disabled, neuroexpansive, neurodiverse, with any protected characteristics and/or social barriers or challenges. We value the empowering and informative impact that all lived experiences and diversity of thought can offer the organisation.
St Giles will guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria set out in the Job Description for the vacancy.
To apply, please visit our website via the ‘Apply’ button.
Closing date: 11 p.m. on 18 April 20204
Interview date: 26 April 2024 at Leeds Media Centre