General assistant
| Posting date: | 22 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £12.60 per hour |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 01 August 2025 |
| Location: | Tilehurst, Reading |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | A2Dominion |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | General assistant |
Summary
General Assistant
Location: Cornerstones, Tilehurst, Berkshire (RG30) with occasional travel
Working Hours: 16 hours per week across Thursday and Friday (7am – 3.30pm)
Salary: £12.60 per hour
This role requires an Enhanced DBS check.
About us
We are a UK housing association committed to a new vision – providing homes people love to live in. With over 38,000 homes in management across London and southern England, we provide a wide range of homes for social, affordable, and private rent, specialist services, as well as homes for sale and shared ownership.
Role overview
To undertake cleaning or laundry work in accordance with the relevant service specification. To provide excellent customer service to tenants (Retirement Living), providing timely feedback on completions and progress and/or problems encountered to the Scheme Manager.
Key responsibilities:
- Carry out daily and deep cleaning of communal areas as directed by the Scheme Management and as detailed in the Scheme Cleaning Specification/Task list.
- Maintain all work locations, including storerooms in a clean and safe order.
- Carry out visual building checks and report to the Scheme Management any damage or repairs noted/identified during the course of your work.
- Observe and adhere to Health and Safety requirements (including COSHH regulations).
- Order, monitor and log cleaning materials.
- Collect, receive and organise washing cycles for residents’ and other scheme laundry in accordance with washing instructions and as directed by the Scheme Management.
- Laundry duties: Iron laundry and return to residents within required timescales.
- Clean all machines and maintain the laundry in a clean and tidy state.
- Assist the Scheme Management in general office administration/scheme tasks as required.
- Provide general support to Tenants on an ad-hoc/emergency basis as directed by Scheme Management or the Catering Manager.
- Assist at social events as required.
About you:
- Domestic, office or industrial cleaning experience
- An understanding of basic cleaning practices, equipment and products including COSHH regulations.
- An understanding of Health and Safety Regulations and procedures.
- Basic MS Office skills and willingness to learn new systems
- A self-starter with a proactive and enthusiastic attitude
Application process
Please attach a tailored CV for this role, ensuring it highlights relevant experience and provides explanations for any employment gaps.
Choosing us is easy
As an employee of A2Dominion, we want you to feel rewarded and have a choice of flexible benefits, salary exchange benefits, and rewards and discounts that work for you, wherever you are in your life.
We offer a wide range of staff benefits. For this role, these include:
- 25 days’ holiday (Plus Bank Holidays) increasing up to 28 days with 3 years of service
- Up to 8% contributory pension
In addition, all permanent and fixed-term employees receive a generous annual allowance of up to £300 to use towards health and lifestyle benefits for both you and your family. We also operate a Cycle to Work Scheme whereby employees have access to cycling equipment throughout the year and can pay via monthly salary deductions.
A2Dominion Group is a Disability Confident Employer which means that we are committed to employing disabled people and will: actively look to attract and recruit disabled people, provide a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process, offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job, be flexible with assessing people so disabled applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate that they can do the job, make reasonable adjustments as required.
At A2Dominion Group, we recognise the positive value of diversity, promote equality and inclusivity in our hiring processes. We always aim to recruit the person who is most suited to the job and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds – men and women, people of all ages, sexual orientations, nationalities, religions, and beliefs.
If you require a reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process, please contact our Resourcing Team to request: resourcing@a2dominion.co.uk
Meeting the role requirements
We recognise that some females will only apply for a role if they meet 100% of role requirements. If this sounds like you, we’d still encourage you to apply and also to arrange a call with one of our Resourcing Team to discuss your application further at resourcing@a2dominion.co.uk
A2Dominion are proud to be a family friendly employer
Everyone is welcome at A2Dominion Group. We know that equality, diversity, and inclusivity make us better. We embrace the unique contributions of our people and seek to create a workplace where everyone feels like they belong. Find out why our people love working with us.
Join us at A2Dominion, where your expertise will be integral to us creating lasting positive changes in the lives of our customers. If you possess the right motivation and drive to contribute to our recovery and change initiatives, we invite you to apply and be a crucial part of our team.
Closing date for this role is 1st August 2025, we reserve the right to close this role upon appointment of a successful candidate.
Location: Cornerstones, Tilehurst, Berkshire (RG30) with occasional travel
Working Hours: 16 hours per week across Thursday and Friday (7am – 3.30pm)
Salary: £12.60 per hour
This role requires an Enhanced DBS check.
About us
We are a UK housing association committed to a new vision – providing homes people love to live in. With over 38,000 homes in management across London and southern England, we provide a wide range of homes for social, affordable, and private rent, specialist services, as well as homes for sale and shared ownership.
Role overview
To undertake cleaning or laundry work in accordance with the relevant service specification. To provide excellent customer service to tenants (Retirement Living), providing timely feedback on completions and progress and/or problems encountered to the Scheme Manager.
Key responsibilities:
- Carry out daily and deep cleaning of communal areas as directed by the Scheme Management and as detailed in the Scheme Cleaning Specification/Task list.
- Maintain all work locations, including storerooms in a clean and safe order.
- Carry out visual building checks and report to the Scheme Management any damage or repairs noted/identified during the course of your work.
- Observe and adhere to Health and Safety requirements (including COSHH regulations).
- Order, monitor and log cleaning materials.
- Collect, receive and organise washing cycles for residents’ and other scheme laundry in accordance with washing instructions and as directed by the Scheme Management.
- Laundry duties: Iron laundry and return to residents within required timescales.
- Clean all machines and maintain the laundry in a clean and tidy state.
- Assist the Scheme Management in general office administration/scheme tasks as required.
- Provide general support to Tenants on an ad-hoc/emergency basis as directed by Scheme Management or the Catering Manager.
- Assist at social events as required.
About you:
- Domestic, office or industrial cleaning experience
- An understanding of basic cleaning practices, equipment and products including COSHH regulations.
- An understanding of Health and Safety Regulations and procedures.
- Basic MS Office skills and willingness to learn new systems
- A self-starter with a proactive and enthusiastic attitude
Application process
Please attach a tailored CV for this role, ensuring it highlights relevant experience and provides explanations for any employment gaps.
Choosing us is easy
As an employee of A2Dominion, we want you to feel rewarded and have a choice of flexible benefits, salary exchange benefits, and rewards and discounts that work for you, wherever you are in your life.
We offer a wide range of staff benefits. For this role, these include:
- 25 days’ holiday (Plus Bank Holidays) increasing up to 28 days with 3 years of service
- Up to 8% contributory pension
In addition, all permanent and fixed-term employees receive a generous annual allowance of up to £300 to use towards health and lifestyle benefits for both you and your family. We also operate a Cycle to Work Scheme whereby employees have access to cycling equipment throughout the year and can pay via monthly salary deductions.
A2Dominion Group is a Disability Confident Employer which means that we are committed to employing disabled people and will: actively look to attract and recruit disabled people, provide a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process, offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job, be flexible with assessing people so disabled applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate that they can do the job, make reasonable adjustments as required.
At A2Dominion Group, we recognise the positive value of diversity, promote equality and inclusivity in our hiring processes. We always aim to recruit the person who is most suited to the job and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds – men and women, people of all ages, sexual orientations, nationalities, religions, and beliefs.
If you require a reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process, please contact our Resourcing Team to request: resourcing@a2dominion.co.uk
Meeting the role requirements
We recognise that some females will only apply for a role if they meet 100% of role requirements. If this sounds like you, we’d still encourage you to apply and also to arrange a call with one of our Resourcing Team to discuss your application further at resourcing@a2dominion.co.uk
A2Dominion are proud to be a family friendly employer
Everyone is welcome at A2Dominion Group. We know that equality, diversity, and inclusivity make us better. We embrace the unique contributions of our people and seek to create a workplace where everyone feels like they belong. Find out why our people love working with us.
Join us at A2Dominion, where your expertise will be integral to us creating lasting positive changes in the lives of our customers. If you possess the right motivation and drive to contribute to our recovery and change initiatives, we invite you to apply and be a crucial part of our team.
Closing date for this role is 1st August 2025, we reserve the right to close this role upon appointment of a successful candidate.