Assistant Housekeeper

Job Overview

Wexham Park Hospital slough are looking for hardworking , enthusiastic team member required to work as part of the Ward / Departmental team, contributing to the provision of a comfortable and effective stay for Patients, by ensuring that the ward/department is maintained to a high standard of cleanliness and to serve breakfast as required. Cleaning experience preferred, however full training is given. Good customer skills necessary.

Main duties of the job

• Vacuum/mop sweep/damp mop/spot clean/spray buffing of floor surfaces, using machinery as required.
• Vacuum carpeted areas, daily removal of spots or stains, and shampooing of carpets using machinery on Housekeeping supervisors
• Collection and tagging of all rubbish, removing bags, clinical waste bins, sharps bins and flattened cardboard containers to designated collection points .
• Ensuring that waste is correctly segregated at the collection point, and placed into locked containers, as required by Trust Policy.
• Replace bags on stands/containers, with the correct colour code, and ensure that containers are clean.
• Damp dust lockers, over-bed tables, chairs, beds, ledges, over-bed lights, pipes, radiators (remove cages as instructed) bed and locker wheels.
• Use cleaning equipment and technology as required
  
  

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

• Damp dust/polish desks, furniture, fittings at Nurses station, and in offices, day room, and any other ancillary rooms attached to the area.
• Damp clean all telephones.
• Clean baths, showers, and hand basins, polish all chromium fittings.
• Clean lavatories inside and outside of bowl. Clean seat, handle, cistern and surrounding area, including sanitary bin.
• Ensure that lavatory brushes and holders are thoroughly clean after use.
• Top up paper hand towel containers with appropriate consumables. Check and refill toilet roll containers. Check and refill hand soap, hand cream and hand gel dispensers. Ensure that all containers are clean inside and out.
• Clean and polish mirrors and glass on doors and partitions.
• Use cleaning equipment and technology as required and trained.
• Serve Breakfast as required.
  
  

Please see Job Description and Person Specification for further information

Person specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Basic education
• Good Numeracy and literacy
  
  

Desirable criteria

• NVQ level 1 in cleaning and support services building interior
  
  

Experience

Desirable criteria

• Previous experience in a similar role desirable but not essential
  
  

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Basic cleaning skills
• Able to work as a member of a team
• Able to communicate verbally and understand instructions
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Understanding of reasons for cleaning
  
  

Special Requirements

Essential criteria

• Flexible approach to work
• Respect for patient privacy and confidentiality
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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