Domestic Assistant | Provide CIC


Company:	Provide CIC
Salary:	£25,272 Yearly
Hours:	Part-time
Location:	Halstead, CO9 2DL
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	11 Sept 2026
Closing date:	11 Oct 2026

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Summary

As a Domestic Assistant at Halstead Hospital, you will play a vital role in maintaining a clean, safe, welcoming and patient-focused environment. Working closely with the Team Leader, colleagues and clinical teams, you will contribute to the smooth running of the hospital by delivering high standards of domestic, cleaning and catering services.

Above all, you will be an important part of the hospital team, helping to create an environment where patients feel safe, cared for and respected, while ensuring the highest standards of cleanliness, food safety and service are maintained.

Working as part of a supportive team, you will combine high standards of domestic cleaning with patient-focused catering and hospitality duties.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Carrying out routine, specific and deep-cleaning duties across wards and departments in line with hospital cleaning guidelines, infection prevention standards and organisational procedures.

• Keeping the health, wellbeing, dignity and comfort of patients at the heart of everything you do, communicating with patients in a friendly and respectful manner.

• Supporting the hospital's catering service by receiving cook/freeze food deliveries, checking quantities and ensuring food is stored safely

• Taking patients' meal orders while carefully considering allergies, dietary requirements and textured meals.

Provide is a Community Interest Company (social enterprise). We deliver a broad range of health and social care services in the community, and are committed to making sure that they are safe, responsive and of high quality. Provide is owned by its employees and has primarily social objectives. Any profits we make are reinvested into the local community or back into delivering services.

We work from a variety of community settings, such as community hospitals, community clinics, schools, nursing homes and primary care settings, as well as within people’s homes to provide more than 40 services to children, families and adults across Essex, Dorset, East Anglia and the North of England.

A highly respected, award winning health and social care provider. We expect our staff to demonstrate and uphold our values at all times:

Vision: Transforming Lives

Values: Care, Innovation and Compassion

Mission: An ambitious, employee owned social enterprise, growing in size and influence. We transform lives by treating, caring and educating people.

Provide is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills, proud to have LGBT+, Ethnic Minority and Men’s Networks.

We welcome applicants from underrepresented groups. If you have the skills and experience for the job, please apply regardless of your background.

Please see attached job description for full detailed list of duties and requirements of the role advertised. Thank you for taking the time to apply for a role within Provide.

This advert closes on Friday 25 Sep 2026

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