Job summary
Employer heading
Assistant Housekeeper
Band 2
Job overview
Wexham Park Hospital slough are looking for hardworking , enthusiastic team member required to work as part of the night housekeeping team, contributing to the provision of a comfortable and effective stay for Patients, by ensuring that the ward/departments are maintained to a high standard of cleanliness . Cleaning and night work experience preferred, however full training is given. Good customer skills necessary.
Main duties of the job
- Vacuum/mop sweep/damp mop/spot clean/spray buffing of floor surfaces, using machinery as required.
- Vacuum carpeted areas, daily removal of spots or stains, and shampooing of carpets using machinery on Housekeeping supervisors
- Collection and tagging of all rubbish, removing bags, clinical waste bins, sharps bins and flattened cardboard containers to designated collection points .
- Ensuring that waste is correctly segregated at the collection point, and placed into locked containers, as required by Trust Policy.
- Replace bags on stands/containers, with the correct colour code, and ensure that containers are clean.
- Damp dust lockers, over-bed tables, chairs, beds, ledges, over-bed lights, pipes, radiators (remove cages as instructed) bed and locker wheels.
- Use cleaning equipment and technology as required
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Damp dust/polish desks, furniture, fittings at Nurses station, and in offices, day room, and any other ancillary rooms attached to the area.
- Damp clean all telephones.
- Clean baths, showers, and hand basins, polish all chromium fittings.
- Clean lavatories inside and outside of bowl. Clean seat, handle, cistern and surrounding area, including sanitary bin.
- Ensure that lavatory brushes and holders are thoroughly clean after use.
- Top up paper hand towel containers with appropriate consumables. Check and refill toilet roll containers. Check and refill hand soap, hand cream and hand gel dispensers. Ensure that all containers are clean inside and out.
- Clean and polish mirrors and glass on doors and partitions.
- Use cleaning equipment and technology as required and trained.
Please see Job Description and Person Specification for further information
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Basic education
- Good Numeracy and literacy
Desirable criteria
- NVQ level 1 in cleaning and support services building interior
Experience
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience in a similar role desirable but not essential
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Basic cleaning skills
- Able to work as a member of a team
- Able to communicate verbally and understand instructions
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of reasons for cleaning
Special Requirements
Essential criteria
- Flexible approach to work
- Respect for patient privacy and confidentiality
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
- Mellissa Galatola
- Job title
- Assistant hotel services manager - Housekeeping
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03006153244
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