Overview
A vacancy has arisen for a highly motivated colleague to join our friendly team in Outpatients at RBTH. We are looking for a Housekeeper to work alongside clinical colleagues maintaining the environment and ensuring best possible patient experience. The post directly involves a wide range of duties including maintaining the department environment, ensuring a high standard of departmental cleanliness, stock control and nutritional related duties. General Outpatients is a busy department open Monday to Friday facilitating a wide variety of clinics.
The Housekeeper role will be worked over 5 days from 7am - 11am.
Responsibilities
* Maintain privacy and dignity for all patients at all times.
* To play a key role in ensuring the Department environment is well maintained and clean.
* To work with estates services and ward team to ensure all fixtures and fittings are in order.
* To communicate well with patients and families.
* To support Department staff in project work and new developments.
* Ensuring that the Department is of a high standard of cleanliness in all areas, and give assistance when appropriate.
* Ensuring ward cleaning checklists are meaningfully completed and report any concerns to Department Sister.
* Cleaning of equipment and organisation of Department kitchen.
* Reporting any faults with fixtures and fittings and maintaining accurate logs of jobs reported. Escalate to Department Sister or Lead Sister any delays by estates.
* Implement Infection Control principles, ensuring Department environment is compliant with infection control policy.
* Preparation of clinic areas.
* Participate in the auditing of the Department environment including Couch audits and report any concerns.
* Ensure Department linen is adequately stored in accordance with Trust policy.
* General tidiness of all Department areas and encouragement to team members.
* Ordering of Department provisions via computer ensuring that all stocks delivered to the ward are appropriately stored.
* To support Department manager to ensure storage areas are organised in accordance with productive ward and lean working principles.
Working hours
5 days a week, 7am – 11am.
Closing information
This advert closes on Wednesday 20 Aug 2025.
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