Job overview
Fixed term contract (-month maternity leave cover)
We are looking for an enthusiastic and hardworking individual, to join our team as a Senior Housekeeper based on the Haematology Ward, Churchill Hospital, Oxford. We care for patients with blood disorders, requiring chemotherapy and other supportive treatments.
The postholder will work as an integral part of the Ward team ensuring a high-quality service to patients and to provide a service that ensures that the patients’ needs are satisfied, and Ward requirements are met.
Please contact Monica Jefferson (k) for more information or to arrange an informal visit.
Main duties of the job
To assist the Senior Team Leaders to ensure the appropriate and effective delivery of facilities services in order to properly maintain the patient environment.
To supervise the Ward housekeepers, ensuring that all non-clinical aspects of the patient’s comfort are attended to.
To supervise an effective waste segregation and disposal service ensuring compliance with all relevant procedures and legislation.
To support the catering department and nutritional assistant as required.
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.
We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence, and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the .
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If you want to make a difference with us, come and join our team. Together, we will uphold the highest standards of care and professionalism.