Employer Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Aintree Hospital Town Liverpool Salary £24,465 per annum, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 05/09/2025 23:59
Domestic Assistant (Rapid Response)
Band 2
Job overview
This role is involved in the preparation and service of patients areas, including bedded areas, wards, departments, clinics, theatres or any other non-occupied areas.
You will be required to undertake a wide range of cleaning duties
associated with maintaining a high standard of cleanliness, ensuring that
at all times a high quality service provision is offered, maintaining trust
values.
This role is working in a very fast paced environment and working to tight deadlines may be required to fit the needs of the service - this role is a demanding physical role
THIS POST IS FOR AINTREE SITE
Various shifts - (flexibility is required for this role)
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for cleaning all the floors, furniture, fixtures, fittings, glassware, high and low level surfaces, sanitary areas within Clinical and Non-Clinical Areas. These duties will be carried out in line with NHSS Policies and local operational procedures and work schedules.
You will be responsible for ensuring the safe disposal/packaging of waste
as per NHSS policy for example clinical and household Waste.
Provision where applicable of a range of catering related duties e.g. making toast, setting up and distributing patient beverages.
Within Residential Accommodation responsible for changing and making up of beds on residents departure.
Movement of Furniture/Equipment is subject to Risk Assessment by Supervisor to enable effective access forperiodic cleaning.
Reporting details of faults and failures of electrical equipment /fabric of the building to Supervisor or Ward Manager.
Responsible for maintaining adequate stocks of cleaning materials and consumables and requesting further supplies from supervisor.
Working for our organisation
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Cleaning of wards and departments to high standards.
Adhering to infection control policies.
Cleaning experience is essential.
Fast pace working.
Flexibility is required for this role.
For Aintree vacancies, please contact Jacci Smith-Brady for the latest available hours.
Person specification
Qualifications
* GCSE/Equivalent
Experience
* Previous Domestic experience
* Previous healthcare environment experience
* Previous use of cleaning machinery, floor polishing machinery
* Knowledge of colour coding systems
Knowledge
* A general understanding of why cleanliness in a patient/healthcare environment is important
* Health and safety basic knowledge
Skills
* Ability to work on own initiative
* Basic numeracy and literacy skills
* Ability to work as part if a team
Other
* Willingness and ability to undertake further training as necessary
Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.
Posts advertised to ‘internal staff’ are open to employees of hospitals within University Hospitals of Liverpool Group and you should confirm your employment within your application form.
Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria.
Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
Candidatesapplying for the role of Healthcare Assistant on the staff bank should note that due to the nature of the role, workers must be aged 18 or above when commencing in post. Applicants are therefore welcome from those aged over 18 or within 3 months’ of their 18 th birthday.
The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.
The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.
Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £23 (standard disclosure) or £43 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment. DBS applications submitted from 2nd December will be subject to the new DBS fee of £26.50 (standard) and £54.50 (Enhanced).
From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years.
Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.
This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults’ policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures.
Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation.
All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action.
As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.
If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on 0151 706 4666 at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post.
Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Application numbers
This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.
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