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Job Overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Housekeeper to join our dedicated team at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust. If you take pride in creating a clean, safe, and welcoming environment, we’d love to hear from you!
Job Overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Housekeeper to join our dedicated team at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust. If you take pride in creating a clean, safe, and welcoming environment, we’d love to hear from you!
Why Join Us?
Be part of a friendly and supportive team
Play a crucial role in patient care and hospital hygiene
Full training provided – no experience necessary
Work in a rewarding and meaningful role
What We’re Looking For
Hard-working and motivated team players
A commitment to maintaining high cleanliness standards
A positive attitude and willingness to learn
Knowledge of COSHH, BICs, colour coding & infection control (desirable but not essential – full training provided!)
This is a challenging but highly rewarding role, perfect for individuals who take pride in their work and want to contribute to patient well-being.
Join Frimley Health and make a real difference every day!
Please note that this position does not offer sponsorship.
Main duties of the job
The housekeeping team at Frimley Park hospital are part of the the hotel services department and the Estates and Facilities directorate. The team is responsible for maintaining high standards of cleanliness in all the hospital areas. The housekeepers are valued support members helping to ensure that the wards are pleasant for the all patients and staff. Some food service may be required.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
* Vacuum/mop sweep/damp mop/spot clean/spray buffing of floor surfaces, using machinery as required.
* High and low dust (including skirting boards/window ledges/curtain rails/notice boards/picture frames/furniture/doors and door stays)
* Vacuum carpeted areas, daily removal of spots or stains, and shampooing of carpets using machinery on housekeeping supervisor instruction.
* Collection and tagging of all rubbish, removing bags, clinical waste bins, sharps bins and flattened cardboard containers to designated collection points.
* Ensure 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.
* Attend to deep clean requests throughout the hospital
* Damp dust/polish desks, furniture, fittings at nurse station and in offices, day room, and any other ancillary rooms attached to the area.
* Damp clean all office equipment i.e 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.
* Replenish paper hand towel containers, toilet roll containers, hand soap, hand cream and hand gel dispensers with appropriate consumables.
* Ensure that all containers are clean inside and out.
* Clean and polish mirrors and glass on doors and partitions.
* Wipe down (sanitise) light switches, electrical sockets and electrical trucking
* Clean/Remove spots and splashes from paintwork on doors and walls.
* Assist with curtain changing.
* Infected rooms should be cleaned as instructed by ward sister/ housekeeping supervisor and following the procedure laid down in agreement with Infection Control.
* All cleaning equipment should be maintained in a clean and hygienic condition, and guidelines for correct storage of equipment and materials must be adhered to. Faulty electrical equipment must be removed from use, and reported to the ward charge nurse/ housekeeping supervisor immediately.
* Monitors stock control.
* A ‘follow up’ clean of surfaces contaminated by body fluid spillage will be carried out after the initial clean by nursing staff (see Trust policy on dealing with spillage).
* Assist with catering duties where applicable, prepare and serve continental style breakfast to all patients if applicable.
* Prepare and serve drinks to patients as required. Collect wash and change patient water jugs. (In absents of ward host) Collect, rinse and load ward dishwasher with dirty crockery and cutlery from patient breakfast service.
* Hand outpatient menus and take orders for lunch service ensuring that the menu summary collation sheet for patients including special diets is completed as required. (In absents of ward host)
* Patient privacy and confidentiality must be respected at all times.
* Undertake any reasonable request issued by Supervisor/Manager.
* Food serving on ward level may be required.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Good level of basic education – able to demonstrate literacy, numeracy, and comprehension skills
* Previous Housekeeping Experience
Desirable criteria
* NVQ level 1
* Basic food Hygiene
Experience
Essential criteria
* Customer Service Experience
* Hygiene COSSH procedures
Desirable criteria
* NHS experience
* Infection prevention and control
Skills
Essential criteria
* Able to use own initiative to cope in a variety of situations
* Good time management skills able to plan and prioritise time and workload
* Able to deal confidently and professionally with members of the public and staff
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
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.
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