Bank Housekeeper
Location: Katharine House Hospice, Stafford and surrounding area
Salary: £14.04 per hour
Hours: Casual
Application deadline: 19th September 2025
Telephone Interview date: 25th September 2025
Face-to-face Interview date: 29th September 2025
Are you motivated, enthusiastic and looking to have a meaningful impact through your work? We are Katharine House Hospice, and we'd like you to join us as our new Bank Housekeeper.
About us
Katharine House Hospice offers the best care to people in our community affected by progressive illnesses, allowing them to live life to the full. Our Administrative Department is crucial to achieving this mission by ensuring smooth operations across all functions.
The role
As a Bank Housekeeper, you'll play a vital role in maintaining the high standards of cleanliness at the hospice and nearby Business Centre on Staffordshire Technology Park. This varied role will involve cleaning patient rooms, clinical areas and offices.
Please note, an enhanced DBS will be required for this role
What we offer you
* Impactful role
Contribute directly to the mission of Katharine House Hospice.
* Supportive team environment
Work in a collaborative and nurturing setting.
Qualifications and experience
Here's some of what we'd like you to have.
* Previous experience in cleaning is essential
* Experience cleaning in a clinical environment is not essential, but would be an advantage.
Please note that this role requires an enhanced DBS check.
Join us and make a difference
We're dedicated to making Katharine House Hospice a place where both our staff and patients feel valued and supported. If you're passionate about cleaning and want to contribute to a mission that matters, we'd love to hear from you. Apply now and help us continue to provide exceptional care and support to those who need it most.
How to apply
To the link below to submit a CV via indeed.
The closing date is 19th September 2025, however we may close this advert earlier, subject to response rates.
If you require any reasonable adjustment to participate in this process, please do not hesitate to contact HR on
Job Description
Area of Work: All areas – Katharine House and Business Centre
Responsible to: H&S Manager
Accountable to: H&S Manager
Mission
"We help local adults with complex, progressive illnesses from diagnosis to the end of life through free, high quality, specialist palliative care, advice and guidance, and we support those close to them."
Department Objectives
It is essential to the delivery of this mission that efficient housekeeping, maintenance, catering and laundry services are available to all departments of Katharine House.
Role within the Department
The Housekeeper's role is to provide all housekeeping services and to ensure that all cleaning work within the hospice is carried out according to agreed schedules and in an efficient and timely manner.
Function and Responsibilities
Specific Objectives
The post holder will be responsible for the housekeeping within Katharine House and ensuring that standards of cleanliness are upheld.
Key Tasks and Responsibilities
Detailed below are areas of activity, which the post-holder will be expected to carry out. The list is not comprehensive.
The post holder will have direct responsibility for:
1. Cleaning all floor areas in corridors, bedrooms, waiting areas, reception area, treatment areas and offices
2. Mopping floors in wet areas
3. Clean accessible light fittings
4. Clean high lampshades as necessary
5. Clean and damp dust:
6. Furniture and fittings
7. Sluices
8. Offices
9. Radiators and pipes
10. Accessible light fittings
11. Window ledges
12. Doors and frames
13. All other surfaces
14. Remove marks and stains from interior windows
15. Carry out refuse collection as required and, where applicable, wash out receptacles
16. Top-up housekeeping disposable items
17. Maintain housekeeping machinery and equipment in a clean condition
18. Clean all chairs
19. High dust
20. Shampoo carpets as required according to the agreed schedule
21. Clean all wash basins, sinks, showers, baths and lavatories
22. Laundry duties as necessary
Other Tasks and Responsibilities
1. All employees have a responsibility to abide by the safety practices and codes authorised by Katharine House Hospice. They have an equal responsibility with management for maintaining safe working practices.
2. Housekeepers work individually but frequently come into contact with visitors to the hospice, members of the public, staff and patients. Housekeepers are expected to work in a courteous and friendly manner with members of the hospice team, patients and members of the public.
3. All staff are required to understand the nature of confidentiality as it applies to information about staff and patients. No information should be given to anyone, other than authorised personnel, if it relates in any way to matters considered confidential by Katharine House Hospice.
4. Deep cleans in all areas of the hospice on a monthly basis and will have to fill out appropriate paperwork for cleaning audits and legionella checks ie running taps and recording
General Induction Requirements
Introduction to the building
Fire procedures
Health and Safety
Policies and Procedures
Specific Induction Requirements
Introduction to the housekeeping machinery
Infection Control Handbook
Manual Handling
COSHH
Legionella
PERSON SPECIFICATION – Housekeeper
Qualifications
* Good General Education - Essential
Experience & Knowledge
* Experience of cleaning in a working environment - Essential
* Experience of cleaning in a clinical environment - Desirable
Skills and attributes
* Courteous & friendly - Essential
* Good People skills - Essential
* Good communication skills - Essential
* Attention to detail - Essential
* Self-motivated - Essential
Other
* Confident manner - Essential
* Team Player - Essential
* Self-starter - Essential
* Flexible attitude - Essential
* Positive attitude - Essential
* A 'can do' approach - Essential
Pay: £14.04 per hour
Benefits:
* Free parking
* On-site parking
Application question(s):
* Do you require sponsorship? Please note we do not provide sponsorship
* Do you have experience of cleaning in a working environment?
* Do you have experience of cleaning in a clinical environment?
Work Location: In person