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House Keeper
The closing date is 22 July 2025
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly enthusiastic and motivated individual to join Wilson Ward as our Housekeeper.
Wilson Ward Ward is a 24 bedded Medical Specialty
You will play a key role in maintaining excellent standards of cleanliness and organization within Pearce Ward; undergoing infection control procedures, equipment cleaning, assisting with ordering of stock and arranging this. You will also assist in catering for patients, ensuring that their individual nutritional needs are met. There will also be opportunity to complete audits and participate in our SHINE walk-arounds.As a Housekeeper you support the team by ensuring the ward is clean, safe, comfortable and organized to deliver patient care.
In return for your hard work and dedication we can offer a friendly, supportive and well experienced clinical team. We can provide you with a clear working structure through regular appraisal. We have an innovative service enabling our staff to be committed to developing both their service and themselves. Clinical Governance, research and audit activities are encouraged within the service.
This is a busy, physically active role which requires excellent communication and interpersonal skills. If you are highly motivated, work well within a team environment and hold the essential skills and experience please apply and join our successful organization.
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the job include (but are not limited to):
* ordering required stock, working closely with materials management team
* organization of stock including clinical and non-clinical items
* general housekeeping including cleaning, tidying and organizing of the general ward environment and patient bed spaces
* oversight of the maintenance of medical devises used, reporting any faults appropriately
* oversight of the maintenance of fixtures and fittings
* assisting in the ordering and provision of patient meals, meeting their nutritional requirements
* maintaining infection control standards on the ward
* escalating concerns via the relevant channels
About us
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of over £3bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating, and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Person Specification
Qualifications
* General education completed
* Educated to GCSE level or equivalent
* Willingness to undertake professional development
Skills
* Good written and verbal communication.
* Good interpersonal skills.
* Ability to work on own initiative but recognise own limitations and seek advice from senior colleagues.
* Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
* Ability to plan and prioritise time and workload.
Knowledge and Experience
* Experience of working in a hospital setting
* Basic computer skills
* Experience ordering of stock control and stock ordering
* Experience using eprocurement, Lorenzo and stores system
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
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
£24,625 to £25,674 a yearper annum (pro rata)
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