Location
Worthing
Vacancy Type
Bank
Pay Range
£12.60 per hour
Contracted Hours
0 hours
Application Deadline
Sunday, October 19, 2025
Job Profile
Job Profile document
Job Summary
About the role
Housekeeping Assistants are responsible for maintaining a clean, safe, and sanitary environment for patients, staff, and visitors.
This includes cleaning patient rooms, bathrooms, common areas, clinical spaces, and office areas, as well as managing waste disposal and linen services, all while adhering to strict infection control protocols.
Housekeeping assistants help to create a warm and homely environment that enables the organisation to meet everyone's needs. Keeping the buildings clean and safe is a crucial task, which is why the role is so important. The variety of tasks carried out ensures that everyone can enjoy a clean, tidy, and welcoming environment, directly impacting the patients, their visitors and all the staff working to support them.
Essential Criteria
* Preferred experience but full necessary training will be given
* Caring nature
* Knowledge of Cleaning and disinfecting, infection control
* Physically fit
* Able to work as team and on own
This list is not exhaustive. Please see the job description for full details of the role and the essential criteria.
The anticipated interview date is 27 October 2025.
About us
Southern Hospice Group is the largest group of hospices in Sussex and one of the largest in the UK. We are committed to providing exceptional and compassionate care to adults, children and their families across Sussex. Bringing our teams and resources together as one organisation means we can focus on new and exciting visions and plans for our people and patients and provide even greater opportunities for our workforce.
St Barnabas House provides specialist palliative care to adults in the Worthing, Adur, Arun and Henfield areas through a range of services, including in-patient care and community living well services.
We warmly welcome applications from all sections of our community. We also invite applications from suitably experienced people for all industry sectors who can demonstrate the skills, ability and enthusiasm to work with a people-centric organisation like ours.
Please note that we reserve the right to close this vacancy before the published closing date where applicant volume is high.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for an Enhanced submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.