University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Band 2 Housekeeping Assistant
The closing date is 07 November 2025
This is an exciting opportunity for the right person to join our Hardworking, Dynamic Housekeeping team at Solihull Hospital. The housekeeping team is an operational service that is integral to patient care and the daily function of the Solihull Hospital site. The team is responsible for cleaning all areas of the site, and ensuring patients are served hot meals, working in conjunction with our wider facilities team that includes Portering and Catering.
The person applying must demonstrate our Trust values of Kind, Connected and Bold in their daily lives. The role involves keeping the environment clean in line with the National Cleaning Standards for Healthcare and ensuring our service users receive the best possible care from the housekeeping team.
The post holder must be hardworking, dynamic and work well within our large diverse facilities team, and in return the Trust offers competitive terms and conditions for personal pensions and paid annual leave.
Main duties of the job
* Cleaning all wards and departments.
* Deep Cleaning Infected bed spaces.
* Working at high pace in line with demand for site bed capacity.
* Serving and preparing food for inpatients, including hot and cold beverage rounds daily.
* Removing all waste streams in line with Trust waste management procedures.
* Using Cleaning Machinery and equipment, including chemicals.
* The role is a physical role.
About us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and we want staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, to feel supported for the diversity they bring and to achieve their full potential. For those staff with a disability, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Good General Education to Secondary School
* Basic Level of literacy & numeracy
* Ability to read and write English
* Food Safety Level 2
Experience
* Able to work as a team member
* Dealing with the public and ability to work under pressure
* Experience working in the cleaning industry
* Previous NHS experience working in a similar role
* Catering experience
Additional Criteria
* Organisational skills
* Flexible to the needs of the service
* Able to use initiative
* Willingness to undertake specific competencies to meet the full requirements of the role
* Physically able to undertake all duties and comply with relevant Trust policies
* Reliable
* Punctual
* Friendly
* Ability to work shifts
* Good communication and inter-personal skills Electronic communication device skills
* Previous experience of health and safety within a healthcare environment
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer name
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
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