Location: Priscilla Wakefield House Nursing Home N15
Hours: Full-time
Start Date: Immediate start available
Experience Required: Minimum 1 years’ experience in housekeeping in a care setting, hospitality or a similar role.
Priscilla Wakefield House is looking for a reliable, hardworking and friendly Housekeeper to join our team on a full-time basis. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who takes pride in maintaining high standards of cleanliness and hygiene, and who enjoys working in a caring and respectful environment.
As a Housekeeper, you will play an important role in helping us provide a clean, safe, comfortable and welcoming home for our residents, staff and visitors. You will be responsible for carrying out domestic duties, following infection control guidance, maintaining cleaning standards, and supporting the dignity, privacy and wellbeing of residents at all times.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
- Maintain high standards of cleanliness throughout the home, including residents’ rooms, communal areas, toilets and facilities.
- Carry out cleaning duties such as dusting, polishing, vacuuming, sweeping, washing and general tidying as required.
- Use cleaning equipment and materials safely and correctly, following COSHH, Health and Safety, hygiene and infection control procedures.
- Report any faulty equipment, hazards, low stock levels or concerns to the appropriate manager.
- Respect residents’ dignity, privacy, choices and confidentiality at all times.
- Work as part of a supportive team and take part in training, staff meetings and quality assurance activities when required.
About You
- Minimum 1 year’s experience in housekeeping a role within a care setting, hospitality, domestic or similar role.
- A positive attitude and commitment to providing a clean, safe and welcoming environment.
- Good communication skills and the ability to relate respectfully to residents, colleagues and visitors.
- Ability to work well as part of a team and use your own initiative when required.
- Good attention to detail and pride in maintaining high standards.
- Understanding of infection control, COSHH, Health and Safety or food hygiene is desirable.
- Applicants must have the right to work in the UK; sponsorship is not available for this role.
What We Are Looking For
We are looking for someone who is dependable, organised and compassionate, with a genuine understanding of the importance of cleanliness, comfort and dignity in a care home environment. You should be able to work efficiently, follow instructions, and contribute positively to the smooth running of the home.
How to Apply
If you have the required experience and would like to join our team, we would be pleased to hear from you. Please apply via the APPLY NOW button or email your CV to admin@pwhnursinghome.co.uk
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Location: Priscilla Wakefield House, Rangemoor Road, London N14 4NA
Hours: 40 hours per week
Salary: £30,000 per annum
Contract: Full Time
Closing date: 30/09/2026
About the role
We are looking for an experienced and motivated Learning and Development Manager to lead the planning, delivery and evaluation of learning and development across our care home.
This is a practical and influential role, focused not only on delivering training but also on ensuring that learning is applied safely and consistently in day-to-day practice. You will work closely with the Registered Manager, clinical leaders, heads of department and staff across the home to identify learning needs, address gaps in practice and maintain clear evidence of staff training and competence.
Key responsibilities
- As our Learning and Development Manager, you will:
- Develop and maintain the home’s annual learning and development plan.
- Complete training needs analyses across the service, individual departments and individual staff members.
- Maintain the training matrix and monitor mandatory, statutory, clinical and role-specific training.
- Plan and support induction, probationary learning, refresher training, development pathways and remedial learning.
- Deliver engaging and practical training through classroom sessions, demonstrations, coaching, e-learning support and workplace assessment.
- Deliver practical moving and handling training, within the scope of your qualifications and the home’s approved procedures.
- Observe staff practice and complete planned and unannounced competency assessments across different shifts where required.
- Provide constructive feedback, coaching, supervised practice and reassessment where standards have not yet been met.
- Respond appropriately to unsafe practice and escalate concerns through the relevant management, clinical, safeguarding or incident process.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of training using attendance records, knowledge checks, feedback, competency results and observations of practice.
- Maintain accurate, secure and audit-ready training and competency records.
- Report training compliance, risks, themes and improvement actions to the Registered Manager and relevant governance meetings.
- Support managers and workplace assessors to make fair, consistent and evidence-based competency decisions.
About you
You will need to have:
- A recognised qualification in learning and development, adult education, training or assessment, or equivalent occupational experience.
- A current recognised moving and handling trainer qualification suitable for a care setting.
- A relevant health or social care qualification at Level 3 or above.
- Experience of delivering learning and assessing competence within adult social care, a nursing home or a comparable healthcare setting.
- Experience of observing practice, giving feedback, supporting improvement and reassessing staff.
- Experience of maintaining training matrices, compliance reports and audit-ready learning records.
- Good knowledge of adult social care standards, safeguarding, person-centred care, health and safety, infection prevention and quality assurance.
- Sound knowledge of moving and handling legislation, risk assessment, safer handling principles and care-home equipment.
- Strong facilitation, coaching, demonstration, presentation and written communication skills.
- The confidence to challenge unsafe or poor practice professionally.
- The ability to analyse compliance information, prioritise risk and report clearly to managers.
- An organised, approachable and flexible working style.
- A qualification in assessing competence, such as CAVA, TAQA or an equivalent assessor award, would be desirable.
What we are looking for
We are looking for someone who is passionate about developing staff and improving the quality and safety of care. You should be able to build positive working relationships while maintaining clear professional standards and accountability.
You will promote a supportive learning culture where staff feel able to ask questions, reflect on mistakes and raise concerns, while ensuring that residents’ safety, dignity and wellbeing remain central to all learning and assessment activity.
Additional requirements
The role may require occasional work outside normal office hours to support night, weekend and part-time staff. You must be physically able to demonstrate approved moving and handling techniques safely, with reasonable adjustments considered where required.
Appointment will be subject to the organisation’s safer recruitment requirements, including an appropriate Disclosure and Barring Service check and satisfactory references. The successful candidate will also be expected to maintain the qualifications, updates and continuing professional development required for the training and assessments they deliver.
How to Apply
If you have the required experience and would like to join our team, we would be pleased to hear from you. Please apply via the APPLY NOW button or email your CV to admin@pwhnursinghome.co.uk
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