Job Description:
Housekeeping Assistant (Day)
Canary Wharf, E14 5NY
Permanent
Salary: £24,734 a year
Full time: 37.5 hours a week
We make health happen.
The Canary Wharf Centre at 50 Bank Street is a purpose-built Specialist Diagnostics & Dental Centre opening in May 2026. It will feature state-of-the-art diagnostic facilities, including MRI and CT scanning, X-ray and mammography, enabling high-quality care in a modern environment designed to support clinical excellence.
The centre will provide a wide range of services, including secondary care for orthopaedics, pain and spinal, dental and maxillofacial, breast and gynaecology, dermatology, and ear, nose and throat, with the ability to perform procedures onsite. It will also offer cardiology, urology, ophthalmology and neurology, alongside primary care services such as health assessments, private GP appointments, women’s health plans, physiotherapy and dental care.
This development is part of our ambition to grow our business and transform the healthcare markets we operate in, offering customers greater choice and better access to services. Most patients will benefit from end-to-end care under one roof, with onward referrals within the Bupa network when needed. By delivering more connected care, we aim to make healthcare simpler and more joined up for our customers
Role Overview
To support the Housekeeping Manager and the Centre Manager in delivering an exceptionally high standard of cleanliness, hygiene, and presentation throughout the Centre clinical and non‑clinical areas, ensuring a safe, welcoming, and premium environment aligned with the expectations of a high‑end healthcare facility.
Role Responsibilities and Duties:
1. Maintain impeccable cleanliness across all assigned centre areas, including clinical corridors, treatment spaces, sanitary facilities, and public areas, following infection‑control protocols.
2. Perform detailed damp‑dusting of high and low surfaces, ensuring equipment, fixtures, and touch points meet hygiene standards.
3. Clean and disinfect all sanitary areas as per agreed cleaning schedules.
4. Support deep‑clean programmes in clinical areas when required.
5. Uphold the premium hospitality standards expected in a high‑end private clinic, ensuring all public and clinical spaces are immaculately presented, calm, and welcoming.
6. Respond promptly and professionally to requests from clinical and service teams to ensure smooth centre operations.
7. Safely collect, segregate, and dispose of general waste and clinical waste, following infection‑control and safety procedures.
8. Maintain hospital floors to a premium standard, using buffing, scrubbing, and other specialist machines safely and effectively.
9. Clean and care for housekeeping equipment, ensuring machines remain in excellent working order.
10. Immediately report defects or hazards to the Housekeeping Manager and/or to Centre Manager.
11. Comply with Health & Safety, Data Protection, and confidentiality regulations at all times
12. Demonstrate reliability, flexibility, excellent timekeeping, and a proactive approach to assigned tasks as well as a polite, articulate, and respectful communication with patients, visitors, and staff at all times.
Key Skills / Experience needed for this role:
13. Must possess cleaning experience
14. Reliable
15. Assertive, articulate & polite
16. Flexible
17. Team player
18. Must be able to communicate in English
19. Good timekeeping
20. Work collaboratively with colleagues
Benefits
Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.
Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:
21. Equivalent to 25 days holiday per year, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
22. Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
23. An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
24. Annual performance-based bonus
25. Support with travel costs via a season ticket loan or cycle2work
26. Various other benefits and online discounts
Why Bupa?
We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.