Job summary
- Main area
- Cleaning
- Grade
- Band 2
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 153-CO04029
- Employer
- University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Bournemouth Hospital
- Town
- Bournemouth
- Salary
- £22,383 pa/pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/01/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Housekeeping Assistant - Royal Bournemouth Hospital - Open Day
Band 2
As University Hospitals Dorset we are a three site acute trust with ‘university hospital’ status through our partnership with Bournemouth University, working with an annual budget of £730m.
We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff. Our ambitious £250m estates programme is well on the way to delivering state-of-the-art facilities over the next two years to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the populations we serve.
In an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with over seven miles of sandy beaches you’ll find inspirational opportunities to achieve your perfect work/life balance. With the New Forest and the Purbecks on our doorstep, we’re also less than three hours from London by road or train. The thriving towns of Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch give way to idyllic villages and unspoilt landscapes just minutes from our hospitals.
We believe that having a diverse workforce, and allowing people to be themselves, is essential in ensuring we offer an inclusive, welcoming and productive place to work.
We especially welcome applications from minority groups in the community who may be underrepresented in our workforce.
At UHD our active staff network groups are the Women's Network, Black Asian Minority Ethnic Group (BAME), Pride Network, European (EU), Pro Ability Staff Network, and the Armed Forces Support Group.
As a Trust we are proudly signed up to the Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant guaranteed interview schemes.
Job overview
New Year, new career!
We’re looking for new recruits to join the Royal Bournemouth Hospital Housekeeping Department.
If you are interested in being part of the UHD Housekeeping team, working with colleagues to keep our hospital clean, safe and infection free, then visit our Recruitment Event on Saturday 18 January 2025 between 9am and 3pm, to find out about opportunities to kick-start your career with us.
There are job opportunities across the hospital site, including roles within our brand new BEACH building, which opens in early 2025. Visitors will be offered a tour of the hospital, and have the opportunity to talk to colleagues about the role and what to expect when working with us.
We will be interviewing on the day, and you could be given a job offer on the day.
Our service operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week – and we can offer part time and full- time working hours.
If you are only able to work occasional days or nights, we will also be recruiting to our temporary staffing bank.
Submit your application now, or support will be offered to do this on the day. If you are successful at interview we are looking to start applicants as soon as possible, to do this we need you to bring your ID documents and vaccination history. Please see attached documents for more information.
Date: Saturday 9am – 3pm on the 18th January 2025.
Location: Education Centre, Royal Bournemouth Hospital (see attached map)
Main duties of the job
Some of our staff benefits
- Excellent paid training and induction
- 35 days leave (including 8 bank holidays), rising to 37 days after 5 years and 41 days after 10 years.
- Excellent maternity and sick pay packages
- NHS Pension Scheme
- NHS Discount Schemes including the ‘blue light card’
- Cycle to Work Scheme
We look forward to seeing from you
Working for our organisation
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued team mates and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To clean rooms – bedded areas, kitchens, offices, wards and departments, to include infected areas (Infection Control driven Terminal Cleans and Barrier Cleans).
- To clean furniture, fixtures and fittings.
- To clean toilets and washrooms and replenish the supplies – soap/toilet rolls/hand towels/hand gels.
- Clean floors – damp mopping/dry mopping/vacuuming and using scrubber driers.
- Clean glass/mirrors.
- To empty bins and remove clinical and household waste including cardboard.
- Spot clean walls, doors, floors and partitions.
- Remove soiled linen – change curtains.
- Maintain good hand hygiene at all times to avoid cross contamination.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Be able to read and write in English in order to complete extensive training and role relevant paperwork
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous experience of cleaning as a paid profession
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience of cleaning in a clinical environment
Language requirement
Essential criteria
- Able to speak English as necessary to undertake the role
Other requirements specific to the role
Essential criteria
- Ability to work under pressure, and to be flexible to the needs of the service.
Knowledge
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of hygiene standards and Infection Control
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Mandy Weldon
- Job title
- Operational Support Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 019 4454
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