Housekeeper

Child Health are looking for an enthusiastic housekeeper to join both the paediatric ward and SCBU clinical areas. The successful candidate would work across both areas by ensuring the overall tidiness of the ward, setting up bed/cot spaces, general stocking up of each area, cleaning of equipment, reporting of faulty equipment and ensuring high standards of cleanliness. You will also be required to liaise closely with patients, relatives and members of the multidisciplinary team.,

• To monitor the environment to ensure all areas are clean and tidy. Remove clutter, tidy notice boards. Participate in ward/unit environmental audits.
• To ensure all specialist and general equipment is cleaned and decontaminated in accordance with manufacturers guidelines to trust standards
• To collect and deliver equipment and other items from and to other areas of the hospital as required.
• To maintain stock levels in all clinical areas, liaising with material management staff to rectify any problems or shortfalls.
• To have good interpersonal skills. Demonstrate a caring, compassionate and friendly attitude. Able to deal with sensitive issues with tact and diplomacy and be approachable.
  
  This is an exciting opportunity to join the child health team where family Integrated care is promoted, and which consists of:
• Louisa Cary which is a 19 bedded acute general paediatric ward at Torbay hospital which cares for children and young people 0 - 18yrs. The ward consists of 2 HDU beds, 11 cubicles and a separate 6 bedded young people's area.
• The Short Stay Paediatric Assessment Unit (SSPAU) is an 8 bedded unit that takes children and young people from 0-18 years directly referred from GPs, Emergency Department and community services. It also provides a service for planned day cases including infusions, investigations, and outpatient reviews.
• Our Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU) is a busy Level 1 unit providing 10 cots in total comprising of 2 HDU cots and 4 Special Care cot's, and 4 Transitional Care cots.