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Housekeeping Assistant
Role summary
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The Housekeeping Assistant is responsible for maintaining clean, hygienic and welcoming environments across an Avery Healthcare care home. Duties typically include cleaning residents’ rooms, communal areas, bathrooms and other facilities, following infection-control and health-and-safety procedures, handling cleaning products safely, and reporting maintenance or housekeeping issues. Previous housekeeping or care-home experience is helpful but not always essential. The successful candidate should be reliable, organised, physically able to carry out cleaning duties, attentive to detail and respectful towards older people. Good communication, a caring attitude, teamwork and flexibility to work shifts, weekends or bank holidays are expected.
Can I work in the UK?
Never pay anyone for a visa or a job offer. A real employer pays the permit costs and never asks you for money.
How it works
How it works: NHS nurses, doctors and allied health get a Health and Care Worker visa (about 3 weeks, no health surcharge); care workers lost this route on 22 July 2025.
Before you apply: Nurses, doctors and most allied health staff must be registered or licensed locally before they start: expect checks on your degree and licence, often an English test, and often an exam or an assessment. Ask the employer who handles it and how long it takes. Most pharma and device office jobs do not need it.
Watch for: Pay follows the NHS pay bands and is usually at least GBP 25,000. Nurses and allied health also need UK professional registration; care workers cannot be sponsored from abroad.
Official source: GOV.UK: Health and Care Worker visa, your job. Checked November 2026.
What the job usually comes with in the UK
Usual for Healthcare jobs in the UK, varies by employer. Checked November 2026.
| Registration | Join the Nursing and Midwifery Council register: English language rules and a Test of Competence |
|---|---|
| Relocation | Visa fee GBP 324 (up to 3 years) or GBP 628 (longer); no health surcharge on this visa |
| Housing | Not usually provided; you rent privately |
| Flights | Not standard; varies by employer and seniority |
| Contract | Permanent is usual; sponsored work visas last up to 5 years at a time |
| Leave | At least 28 days for a 5-day week (by law); employers may count bank holidays in it |
| Income tax | 0% to GBP 12,570, 20% to GBP 50,270, then 40%; plus 8% National Insurance (Scotland differs) |
Senior staff often get more than line staff, for example a single room or a yearly home flight. Ask the employer what the job includes before you accept.
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About Avery Healthcare Group Ltd.
Avery Healthcare Group Ltd. is a UK provider of residential, nursing, dementia and respite care through a network of care homes. The company aims to create comfortable, supportive communities where residents receive personalised care while maintaining dignity, independence and choice. Its homes employ care, nursing, hospitality, housekeeping, activities, administration and facilities teams. Housekeeping staff play an important role in resident wellbeing by maintaining clean, safe and pleasant surroundings and supporting infection-prevention standards. Avery promotes teamwork, training and a resident-focused approach, with benefits and development opportunities varying by role and location. The organisation operates within UK care-sector regulations and is subject to inspections by the relevant national care regulator.