Housekeeper

We are looking for a Housekeeper to work alongside clinical colleagues maintaining the environment and ensuring best possible patient experience, The post directly involves a wide range of duties including maintaining the department environment, ensuring a high standard of departmental cleanliness, stock control and nutritional related duties.Working for our organisation General Outpatients is a busy department open Monday to Friday facilitating a wide variety of clinics. The Housekeeper role will be worked over 5 days from 7am -11am,

• Maintain privacy and dignity for all patients at all times.
• To play a key role in ensuring the Department environment is well maintained and clean.
• To work with estates services and ward team to ensure all fixtures and fitting are in order.
• To communicate well with patients and families.
• To support Department staff in project work and new developments.
• Ensuring that the Department is of a high standard of cleanliness in all areas, and give assistance when appropriate.
• Ensuring ward cleaning checklists are meaningfully completed and report any concerns to Department Sister.
• Cleaning of equipment and organisation of Department kitchen
• Reporting any faults with fixtures and fittings and maintaining accurate logs of jobs reported. Escalate to Department sister or Lead Sister any delays by estates.
• Implement Infection Control principles, ensuring Department environment is compliant with infection control policy.
• Preparation of clinic areas
• Participate in the auditing of the Department environment including Couch audits and report any concerns.
• Ensure Department linen is adequately stored in accordance with Trust policy
• General tidiness of all Department areas and encouragement to team members.
• Ordering of Department provisions via computer ensuring that all stocks delivered to the ward are appropriately stored.
• To support Department manager to ensure storage areas are organised in accordance with productive ward and lean working principles.
  
  A vacancy has arisen for a highly motivated colleague to join our friendly team in Outpatients at RBTH, IT skills - able to use trust systems
• Excellent time management
• Ability to organise own workload
Desirable criteria
• Previous housekeeping experience, Able to use trust it systems
• Ability to organise own whilst under pressure.
Desirable criteria
• Previous housekeeping experience
  
  At East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust our vision is to be widely recognised for providing safe, personal and effective care. We currently provide high quality services and treat over 600,000 people across East Lancashire and the surrounding area. We employ over 9,500 staff, many of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work., The Trust is an equal opportunities employer, committed to improving the working lives of our staff and operates a 'Zero Tolerance' policy to aggression, violence, bullying and harassment. In addition, our aim is to help protect children and vulnerable adults by providing a first-class service to the recruitment of people into positions of trust.
We aim to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from everyone irrespective of ethnic origin, gender, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, disability or social background. We especially welcome applications from members of our black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities, as we have identified that ELHT has an under-representation of BAME employees. Appointments will be made on merit.

It is important you are made aware of the following as regards your application to East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
• Please note that the salary advertised is for full time hours. If this post is less than 37.5 hours per week, the salary will be pro-rata. For posts on Agenda for Change pay-scales, new entrants to the NHS will normally commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.
• This vacancy may close before the closing date if the recruiting manager deems sufficient applications have been received. Therefore it is advised to complete your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
• Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.
• Please note that shortlisting is completed anonymously with candidates being assessed against the essential criteria for the post. Therefore only applicants, who can clearly demonstrate how they meet our person specification criteria in their application, will be short-listed.
Disclosure and Barring Scheme (DBS) If the role you are applying for is identified as either controlled or regulated activity as defined in in the Safeguarding vulnerable Groups Act (2006) any offer of employment is provisional upon a satisfactory DBS check being obtained. The healthcare sector is exempted from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. In line with other NHS organisations in the North West Region, the Trust is now passing the charge for undertaking a DBS check on to candidates in the event they are successfully appointed into the post for which they have applied. Candidates can choose whether to pay this over 1-3 months as a deduction from the monthly salary. However, if you are applying for a post as a BANK worker, the payment must be made in full at the time of employment checks. By applying for this vacancy you are agreeing to this undertaking in the event you are successfully appointed. The cost for an Enhanced DBS, is £45.90 and for a Basic & Standard, this is £24.90 this cost includes a £4.90 admin fee.