Job summary
- Main area
- Facilities
- Grade
- Band 2
- Contract
- Permanent: Various Hours
- Hours
- Part time - 31.25 hours per week (Various shifts)
- Job ref
- 820-7001692-COR
- Employer
- Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Moseley Hall Hospital
- Town
- Birmingham
- Salary
- £23,615 per annum (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/03/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Band 2 Housekeeper
Band 2
Job overview
** This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested. **
BCHC is looking to hire a group of new housekeepers to join its housekeeping team at Moseley Hall Hospital. The position will be for 31.25 hours a week working a variety of shifts across the week.
Main duties of the job
The Housekeeper will work within the Trust Facilities Management structure to ensure that the housekeeping service supports clinical colleagues.
Key areas of responsibility will be as follows:
To ensure the environment is cleaned in line with national cleaning standards.
- Deliver meal/beverage service
- Cleaning medical/hard equipment.
- Manage linen quality.
- Report maintenance issues
The housekeeper will enhance the patient’s experience by ensuring that the clinical environment is presented and maintained in a way which maximises the patient’s sense of comfort, safety and well-being.
Working for our organisation
IMPORTANT
- Please ensure you check your TRAC account regularly as this is how we will communicate with you during the shortlisting and selection process.
- Please ensure all sections of the application form are completed fully. Please particularly ensure that you provide full details of all referees including BUSINESS EMAIL ADDRESS, telephone contact details and postal address
Be Part of Our Team...
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for better care and healthier communities, we want to hear from you.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Responsible for the safe and effective delivery of the housekeeping/catering service.
- Undertake scheduled cleaning tasks, including the cleaning of clinical equipment, as per schedules.
- Uphold all Infection Prevention and Control measures as required within the Trust.
- Ensuring that all domestic consumables are available at all times in the appropriate dispenser/holder.
- Undertake ad-hoc cleaning tasks as required by the Senior Housekeeper or nursing staff.
- Undertake catering tasks as per the work schedule ensuring that all Food Hygiene and Health & Safety Legislation is adhered to.
- Ensuring that the day room and dining areas are kept clean and presentable for patients and visitors.
- Ensure that there are sufficient ingredients for beverages, ward provisions, snack boxes and condiments available for use
- Assist with the curtain change programme.
- Report the need for any estates maintenance requests to the Senior Housekeeper.
- Identify areas for continuous improvement and liaising with the Senior Housekeeper to develop those improvements.
- Ensure close liaison and interfacing with the nursing staff to ensure there is a co-ordinated approach to the delivery of the housekeeping service.
- Responsible for ensuring that housekeeping tasks have been undertaken competently in order that the Trust performs well in internal and external audits.
- Responsible for ensuring any complaints received are relayed to the Senior Housekeeper and any adjustments or corrective actions are implemented.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Level 2 Food Safety & Hygiene Certificate or willingness to complete within the first 12 weeks of employment
- Good basic education - Ability to read and write and numerical skills.
- NVQ Level 2 British Institute of Cleaning Science in Domestic Services
Experience
Essential criteria
- Good knowledge of Health and Safety including COSSH, Safe Systems of Cleaning Tasks.
- Excellent knowledge of Food Hygiene including temperature control and HACCP.
Desirable criteria
- Relevant experience of working within a healthcare setting.
- Full knowledge of cleaning schedules.
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Good communicator, to mix with a variety of people
- Flexible in working practices and hours
- Ability to be able to follow clear instructions
- Ability to show empathy and understanding of patient’s needs
- Good understanding of policies and procedures
- To be proactive in ensuring effective relationships are maintained
- To work well and effectively in a team and alone
Other
Essential criteria
- To deliver the highest levels of customer service promoting a professional and caring manner
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Isaac White
- Job title
- Housekeeping Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0121 466 6670
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