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Role Description
The Domestic Services Assistant plays a key role in maintaining a clean, hygienic, and comfortable living environment for residents, staff, and visitors at Lyndoch Living. This position supports the overall health and wellbeing of residents by ensuring high standards of cleanliness and infection control across all areas of the facility.
Essential
Qualifications & Experience
* Training or experience in cleaning.
* Current National Police Certificate (or ability to acquire).
Desirable
* Knowledge and experience in chemical handling.
* Experience in residential aged care.
Key Duties And Responsibilities
* Provide cleaning services according to established cleaning schedules.
* Mopping, vacuuming and polishing floors, shampooing of carpets, damp dusting, waste management and restocking of supplies.
* Assist with laundry practices as required.
* Maintain records of completion of cleaning schedule duties.
* Safe storage and use of cleaning agents including correct cleaning agents used in correct quantities for each task.
* Participate in the infection control program.
* Contribute to a safe environment when undertaking duties ensuring equipment is not obscuring exits and passageways.
* Any other task not defined but within the employees skills, as directed by the organisation.
Mission, Vision and Values
It is a condition of employment that each employee will, at all times, uphold our organisation's mission, vision and values:
* Mission: To care for the elderly in our communities in an environment of respect, value and belonging.
* Vision: A world where the elderly feel respected, valued and enjoy a quality of life.
* Values: Respect: Treat all people with fairness and dignity. Care: Look after and protect the elderly, and each other. Teamwork: Encourage, cooperate and build trust. Courage: Do the right thing, even when it’s difficult. Integrity: Be open, honest and trustworthy. Innovation: Think differently to solve problems. Excellence: Drive quality to continuously improve.
Workplace Health & Safety
* Perform the duties of the position according to applicable workplace health and safety legislation and regulations by complying with the organisation's policies and procedures.
* Participate in the identification, risk management and infection control programs and contribute to a clean, safe and healthy work environment to ensure the safety of residents, visitors, other employees and self.
* Report immediately, any equipment or situation which is hazardous, or has the potential to be a safety issue.
* Participate in problem solving processes to resolve workplace health and safety and infection control issues.
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Seniority level
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Employment type
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Full-time
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Hospitals and Health Care
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