Main area Housekeeping Grade Band 2 Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 24 hours per week (rota covering service 7 days a week, 7.30am to 7pm inc bank holidays) Job ref 813-333-0924-LB-D
Site Wisdom Hospice Town Rochester Salary £23,615 pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 24/02/2025 23:59
Do you want to be part of an award winning and dynamic social enterprise that:
* is renowned for providing high quality care and is ranked ‘Good’ by the CQC;
* is a for-better-profit organisation, reinvesting any surplus back into our health and care services and our local community;
* is friendly, ambitious, welcomes innovation and rewards excellence;
* offers superior benefits; everything you get in the NHS and more;
* and whose achievements reflect the passion, dedication and commitment demonstrated by our staff across all services?
Our vision is to be a successful, vibrant, community interest company that benefits the communities we serve. So if you want be a part of this, we would love to hear from you.
Job overview
* Are you able to work flexible hours?
* Are you looking to provide a high quality housekeeping service?
* Do you have previous cleaning and catering experience?
If you answered yes, we’ve got the perfect role for you!
This is an exciting opportunity for highly motivated and professional housekeepers to be part of the housekeeping team based at the Wisdom Hospice, Rochester to a high standard.
You must be able to communicate in a clear and concise manner, be of a cheerful disposition and able to adapt to changes effectively.
Duties will include:
* Provide catering to the inpatient unit
* Complete tasks as requested by line manager
* Periodical cleaning tasks included within schedules and ad hoc cleaning requirements
* Ensure cleaning and catering stock is maintained
* Follow hygiene, health and safety regulations
Main duties of the job
To work as part of the housekeeping team within a hospice environment, 80% housekeeping and 20% kitchen
The post holder will be responsible for cleaning and catering in line with the Medway Community Healthcare CIC and NHS national standards for cleanliness and food preparation for patients, staff, families and carers.
Works in areas where there are patients with challenging behaviour or communication difficulties.
Basic food preparation and distribution to up to 15 patients on the inpatient unit.
The post holder will need to be flexible working across different shifts covering the service 7.30am and 7.00pm, Monday to Sunday including bank holidays.
Working for our organisation
So what else?
* This is your chance to join a progressive and innovative service in a social enterprise that is patient and staff focused - you’ll even have the opportunity to become an MCH shareholder.
* We encourage staff to get involved in exploring new ways of working and service development.
* We’ll provide well established, in-service training, one to one supervision, and appraisals with regular support.
* You’ll be able to develop your skills in a friendly and supportive team.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important work life balance is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
The small print
* Informal visits can be arranged on request.
* We will offer you the choice of two pension schemes; the NHS Pension scheme and the Scottish Widows group pension scheme.
* MCH encourages all staff to be double COVID vaccinated to protect themselves, their colleagues, their family and their patients.
* Previous applicants need not apply
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Criteria
Qualifications, training, knowledge and experience
Range of routine work procedures requiring job training.
Knowledge of cleaning, food handling/hygiene CoSSH procedures; induction job training
Provide and receive routing information; barriers to understanding
Communicate with patients with communication and behavioural problems
Analytical and judgemental skills
Judgements involving straightforward facts of situations
Judgements on routine cleaning issues
Planning and organisational skills
Organise own day to day tasks and activities
Plans own work, prioritising, cooking methods, cooking times, cooking procedures, reorganises menus
Responsibility for patient/client care
Provide ancillary services to patients/clients
Cleans wards; distributes food ie breakfast (full English to continental), main hot meal at lunchtime (heating of regen foods), light supper (sandwiches, salads and heating tinned soup)
Responsibility for financial and physical resources
Observe personal duty of care/safe use of equipment other than equipment used personally; maintain stock control
Safe use of cleaning equipment/assemble and dismantle cleaning equipment, order stock
Responsibility for human resources
Demonstrate own activities to new or less experienced employees.
Demonstrates cleaning procedures to new starters
Responsibility for information resources
Record personally generated information
Completes timesheets or similar work records
Responsibility for research and development
Undertake surveys or audits, as necessary to own work
Cleaning audits
Freedom to Act
Well established procedures, supervision close by
Team Lead always available for advice
Physical effort
Lift buckets of water, push scrubbing machine and cleaning trolley
Emotional factors
Occasional distressing or emotional circumstances; occasional/frequent indirect highly distressing or emotional circumstances
Terminally ill patients; exposure to patient with challenging behaviour
Mental factors
General awareness, sensory attention; work pattern predictable
Concentration while using cleaning equipment
Working conditions
Frequent exposure to highly unpleasant working conditions/some exposure to hazards
Frequent exposure to body fluids/exposure to physical aggression
Person specification
Qualifications
* as per job spec
* as per job spec
Experience
* as per job spec
Special knowledge / expertise
* as per job spec
* as per job spec
* as per job spec
Practical/ intellectual skills
* as per job spec
MCH Values
* see person spec
We reserve the right to close this advert earlier than the published closing date if we receive a sufficient number of applications. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted within 1 week of the closing date; no discourtesy is intended in not contacting you if your application is rejected.
When completing your application, please include the email addresses and contact telephone numbers for your referees; your referees should be your line managers / course tutors for the last 3 years.
MCH is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to a compassionate and inclusive workplace and values diversity of all people. We prohibit unlawful discrimination and harassment of any kind and wish to provide our employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. At the heart of our values, we seek to treat people fairly and with dignity and respect and provide a workplace where people feel they belong.
We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workforce and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join MCH. We are positive about disability and we guarantee interviews to applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria as specified in the job description. We are committed to offering support and making reasonable adjustments to allow full participation in the interview and selection process and through their employee journey.
We are committed to the safeguarding and welfare of children and vulnerable adults.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Name Bambina De Marco Job title Non Clinical Team Lead Email address bambina.demarco@nhs.net Telephone number 01634 830456 Additional information
Bambina De Marco, Non Clinical Team Lead
t:01634 830456
e: bambina.demarco@nhs.net
If you have problems applying, contact
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