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London Borough of Harrow's Central Family Hub has an opening for a Domestic Assistant.

The post holder will provide a high-quality service for staff, children, parents, and sometimes vulnerable families. Maintaining infection control, clean play areas, and communal spaces which are all essential for safeguarding the health and wellbeing of all that access the hub. Family Hubs are designed to be welcoming, relationship‑centred spaces. The domestic assistant will create an environment where families feel comfortable, maintaining clean, organised rooms to directly support this principle. The candidate will take responsibitiy for keeping and maintaining a register of cleaning orders and submitting orders for resources required.

It is expected that the successful post holder will act with initiative, skill, and responsibility, where the councils rules in confidentiality will be observed.

The successful candidate will have:

• Experience of working as a Domestic Assistant.
• Awareness of and abide by all COSHH (Care of Substances Hazardous to Health 1994) regulations and a willingness to learn about other relevant law in relation to the role.
• Awareness of and abide by all Health & Safety Regulations in relation to the job role.
• Ability to undertake general cleaning duties, as set out in the centre's cleaning schedule e.g. keep stock control and organisation of the store cupboard.
• An understanding of keeping professional boundaries with children.
• Ablility to respond quickly to hazardous situations.
• Ability to undertake lifting and handling of cleaning products and equipment as well as accessing of them in high or low positions are required.

For more information, please refer to the Role Profile/Selection Criteria

About us

Harrow Council is the 12th largest London borough and one of the most culturally diverse local authorities in the UK, making it a great place to live, work and visit with a range of cultures, religions and opinions that come together to produce high achieving schools and a close and friendly community. Located 10 miles from the city centre and just 13 minutes to Euston from Harrow & Wealdstone station there are great transport links via the Metropolitan Line, Watford DC Line and national rail service. It is easily accessible to the M1, M25 and A406.

Other information

Support for candidates visit:Harrow.gov.uk Our behavioural indicators roles below G11 and above G11 Here at Harrow Council, the vision is one of 'Working together to make a difference for Harrow' Please click here to view Harrow Council's benefits

Important Note

To deliver our commitment to equality of opportunity in service provision, all staff are expected to promote equality in the workplace and in the services the Council delivers. All sections of the population will have equal access to jobs at the London Borough of Harrow. No applicant or employee will receive less favourable treatment because of age, disability, gender, reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy, or maternity unless a Genuine Occupational Qualification applies. As such, we value diversity and welcome applications from all backgrounds. For further information, please read our equality statement.

As a disability-confident employer, we are committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and accessible to everyone. This includes reasonably adjusting the recruitment process for those with disabilities or long-term health conditions. For further information, please contact us at resourcing@harrow.gov.uk

London Borough of Harrow is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Harrow operates stringent, safer recruitment procedures.

Due to the high number of applications received for some posts, we may close vacancies before the stated closing date if sufficient applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.

Harrow redeployees will be given priority consideration.

The personal information we have collected from you will be shared with Cifas who will use it to prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper conduct. If any of these are detected you could be refused certain services or employment. Your personal information will also be used to verify your identity. Further details of how your information will be used by us and Cifas, any your data protection rights, can be found by visiting www.cifas.org.uk/fpn