Retail Security Officer
Full Time
Care Home Domestics
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Posted 3 weeks ago
The cleaner who works around residents, not despite them — pace, dignity, and infection control all at once.
The role
Care Home Domestics handle the cleaning of resident rooms, communal areas, dining rooms, and ancillary spaces in nursing and residential homes. The work is recognisably cleaning — but the context isn't. Residents may be living with dementia, may need a quiet word before you enter, may want to chat for ten minutes about their grandchildren. The best Domestics in care are the ones who get the cleaning done to standard and treat residents as people, not obstacles.
Who it suits
You'll thrive here if you take real pride in cleaning to a high standard, are comfortable with older people, including those living with dementia, and understand that pace can never come at the cost of dignity. Good for experienced cleaners moving in from hospitality or facilities work, and for those starting out who want a route into care over time.
A typical shift
Shifts are typically eight hours, often 7am–3pm or 9am–5pm, sometimes weekends. You'll work through a daily schedule of resident rooms, en-suite bathrooms, and communal areas, plus deeper periodic cleans of dining rooms, lounges, and ancillary spaces. Infection control and colour-coded equipment usage are central. You'll log completed work and any concerns (residents who seem unwell, equipment faults) to the senior on duty.
Requirements & expectations
- Right to work in the UK
- Enhanced DBS on the Update Service, including Adults’ barred list
- Care-sector cleaning experience preferred, or strong hospitality cleaning experience with willingness to complete care-context induction
- COSHH, infection prevention and control, and colour-coded cleaning training
- Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training Tier 1
- Care Certificate awareness modules, including safeguarding adults, dignity and dementia awareness
- Reliability and attention to detail
Skills you’ll gain
- Care-grade infection prevention and control practice
- Confidence working around residents living with dementia and complex needs
- A track record with care home managers who keep coming back to you
- An entry route into Care Assistant work, as many HCAs started as Domestics
Where you could work
Conifer places Care Home Domestics across nursing and residential care homes, hospices, supported-living services, and step-down units. Our crossover with the Conifer Facilities team means we can supply individual placements or full domestic teams for new-build openings.
About Conifer
Conifer isn't another agency. We're the partner businesses call when reliability matters, when fit matters, and when "good enough" isn't good enough. We look after our people, take care of the compliance behind the scenes, and pick up the phone when you need us — every shift, every site, every time.
