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Job summary

Main area
Estates
Grade
Band 2
Contract
Fixed term: 6 months (6 months to cover sickness)
Hours
Part time - 11 hours per week
Job ref
229-COR-6820399
Employer
Wye Valley NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Leominster Community Hospital
Town
Leominster
Salary
£23,615 pro rata, pa
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
12/12/2024 08:00

Employer heading

Wye Valley NHS Trust logo

Soft Facilities Assistant - Leominster

Band 2

Job overview

Are  looking for new challenges?   Would you like to try a new opportunity for 6 months? Are you flexible and motivated to learn about Healthcare Cleaning and Catering? 

This post would mostly be catering shifts in kitchen

What we can offer you:-

  • Full training for both Catering and Healthcare Cleaning
  • Based at Leominster Hospital or DAC
  • NHS Pension scheme
  • Generous annual leave entitlement.

We offer a range of hours that can suit your personal circumstances with shifts lasting 5.5 hours at times ranging from 0700 – 2100 hours over a 7 day period.  

If you would prefer to only work at certain times we could offer our bank posts for you so that you only work when you can do any shifts.  We can guarantee hours if you would like us to.

Shift pattern would be 07:00- 13:00, 0800 – 1400, 0900 – 1500, 13:00-19:00 and 1500 - 2100 or we would try to work around these hours to suit individual circumstances.

 

Main duties of the job

To maintain the levels of cleanliness throughout the hospital environment to the laid down standards based on the National Standards of Cleanliness and ensuring that a continuity of service is maintained whilst adhering to all relevant policies and procedures.

To carry out a wide range of general catering duties ensuring a high quality service in line with Food Hygiene Regulations at all times.

Ability to problem-solve day to day issues that may arise.

Working for our organisation

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust and the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we’d want for our family and friends.

More than 3,000 people work for the Trust – they tell us it’s a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”

Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To view role requirements and responsibilities in full, please see "Supporting Documents" linked to this vacancy.

Please note:  This vacancy maybe retracted as a result of being deemed suitable for the redeployment of internal staff.

Person specification

Education & Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Good level of communication skills
  • Basic Literacy Skills
Desirable criteria
  • Food Hygiene Certificate ( or willingness to complete)

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Good customer service skills /experience
  • Ability to follow instructions and organise own work to meet the team objectives, adapting work to meet any changing priorities which may need to meet tight timescales.
Desirable criteria
  • Understanding of health and safety processes

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Previous experience in cleaning or catering environment

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Trust IDApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyMenopause Friendly EmployerAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldArmed Forces Covenant (Silver Award)Mindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employercorporate covenantNHS Rainbow badge

Applicant requirements

This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Chris Allen
Job title
Site Supervisor
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07970 985733
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