Domestic Assistant

Inclusion Healthcare CIC

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Job summary

We are seeking a Domestic Assistant to provide cleaning services at one of our sites within Leicester city centre. The role requires working between Monday and Friday, with a total of 9.5 hours per week. The schedule can be flexible, with shifts either taking place early in the morning before the site opens or in the late afternoon before closing.A Domestic Cleaner's duties include cleaning and sanitising patient areas, waiting rooms, and communal spaces, ensuring all surfaces are disinfected to meet infection control standards. The role also involves waste disposal, restocking cleaning supplies, and adhering to strict cleaning protocols to support the health and safety of staff, service users, and visitors.

Main duties of the job

  • Clinical Rooms: (Steam Clean Floors especially edging, Chairs/Blinds), damp wipe, polish, empty rubbish bins, clinical waste removal, Move Recycled Waste Bags, general tidy, clean sinks & associated area, ensure adequate supplies of paper roll, bed roll, soap, alcohol gel, moisturiser, Clean Telephones and keyboards with wipes, clean window sills
  • Offices / administration areas / conference space/Counsellors room: Vacuum (all carpeted area especially edging), damp wipe, polish, empty rubbish bins, damp wipe computers / phones, tidy, clean window sills
  • WCs: Clean and disinfect toilet, steam clean as required. Ensure adequate supplies of toilet paper, soap etc.
  • Waiting area: Vacuum, Electric Floor Scrubber/Steam Clean paying particular attention to edgings, dust & polish fittings & fixtures as necessary, ensure area is tidy
  • Clean and disinfect areas that have been made unfit for use i.e. patients vomit, blocked toilet etc
  • Kitchenette / Conference: Clean sink, ensure cupboards / fridge / microwave etc are clean and free of expired foodstuffs, damp mop floors, empty / clear rubbish bins, ensure adequate supplies of soap, paper towels etc fill and unload dishwasher
  • Shower room: Check regularly, ensuring adequate supplies and cleanliness
  • Bins: Take rubbish to external store, this should be kept tidy, all cardboard etc to be flattened, re-cycled materials as possible / appropriate

About us

Inclusion Healthcare CIC was established to improve the health and well-being of homeless and marginalised groups through the provision of excellent, accessible healthcare. As a thriving social enterprise, whilst we continue to deliver outstanding healthcare to our existing patients, we seek to extend the scope and impact of this successful model to deliver exceptional primary care to the wider patient population, believing that not-for-profit, patient-centred care should be available to all.

Values:

Partnership: Working together to achieve more

Quality: Providing a safe, caring, responsive, and excellent service

Efficiency: Being agile and flexible in using our resources and influence to support the best outcomes for those we serve

Compassion: Putting ourselves in someone elses shoes and feeling driven to help them

Respect: Accepting all people for who they are, working for equity and treating others as we would want to be

Date posted

17 November 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£11.44 an hour

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

B0148-24-0003

Job locations

No 5

5 Hill Street

Leicester

LE1 3PT


Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Summary

To ensure the cleaning standards expected of a clinical environment are upheld and are in line with CQC guidelines.

Follow cleaning schedule and suggest changes as appropriate.

Job Responsibilities:

  • Clinical Rooms: (Steam Clean Floors especially edging, Chairs/Blinds), damp wipe, polish, empty rubbish bins, clinical waste removal, Move Recycled Waste Bags, general tidy, clean sinks & associated area, ensure adequate supplies of paper roll, bed roll, soap, alcohol gel, moisturiser, Clean Telephones and keyboards with wipes, clean window sills
  • Offices / administration areas / conference space/Counsellors room: Vacuum (all carpeted area especially edging), damp wipe, polish, empty rubbish bins, damp wipe computers / phones, tidy, clean window sills
  • WCs: Clean and disinfect toilet, steam clean as required. Ensure adequate supplies of toilet paper, soap etc.
  • Waiting area: Vacuum, Electric Floor Scrubber/Steam Clean paying particular attention to edgings, dust & polish fittings & fixtures as necessary, ensure area is tidy
  • Clean and disinfect areas that have been made unfit for use i.e. patients vomit, blocked toilet etc
  • Kitchenette / Conference: Clean sink, ensure cupboards / fridge / microwave etc are clean and free of expired foodstuffs, damp mop floors, empty / clear rubbish bins, ensure adequate supplies of soap, paper towels etc fill and unload dishwasher
  • Shower room: Check regularly, ensuring adequate supplies and cleanliness
  • Bins: Take rubbish to external store, this should be kept tidy, all cardboard etc to be flattened, re-cycled materials as possible / appropriate
  • Notify manager of any breakages or hazards
  • Wash up items in consulting rooms
  • Maintain supplies of cleaning materials, inform Buildings & Premises Officer when to replenish stocks
  • Spot Clean, any carpet stains.
  • Maintain infection control standards and ensure policies are adhered too.
  • Any other duties that may be assigned from time to time

Health & Safety:

The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the practice Health & Safety Policy, to include:

  • Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines
  • Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks
  • Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills
  • Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards
  • Reporting potential risks identified.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Summary

To ensure the cleaning standards expected of a clinical environment are upheld and are in line with CQC guidelines.

Follow cleaning schedule and suggest changes as appropriate.

Job Responsibilities:

  • Clinical Rooms: (Steam Clean Floors especially edging, Chairs/Blinds), damp wipe, polish, empty rubbish bins, clinical waste removal, Move Recycled Waste Bags, general tidy, clean sinks & associated area, ensure adequate supplies of paper roll, bed roll, soap, alcohol gel, moisturiser, Clean Telephones and keyboards with wipes, clean window sills
  • Offices / administration areas / conference space/Counsellors room: Vacuum (all carpeted area especially edging), damp wipe, polish, empty rubbish bins, damp wipe computers / phones, tidy, clean window sills
  • WCs: Clean and disinfect toilet, steam clean as required. Ensure adequate supplies of toilet paper, soap etc.
  • Waiting area: Vacuum, Electric Floor Scrubber/Steam Clean paying particular attention to edgings, dust & polish fittings & fixtures as necessary, ensure area is tidy
  • Clean and disinfect areas that have been made unfit for use i.e. patients vomit, blocked toilet etc
  • Kitchenette / Conference: Clean sink, ensure cupboards / fridge / microwave etc are clean and free of expired foodstuffs, damp mop floors, empty / clear rubbish bins, ensure adequate supplies of soap, paper towels etc fill and unload dishwasher
  • Shower room: Check regularly, ensuring adequate supplies and cleanliness
  • Bins: Take rubbish to external store, this should be kept tidy, all cardboard etc to be flattened, re-cycled materials as possible / appropriate
  • Notify manager of any breakages or hazards
  • Wash up items in consulting rooms
  • Maintain supplies of cleaning materials, inform Buildings & Premises Officer when to replenish stocks
  • Spot Clean, any carpet stains.
  • Maintain infection control standards and ensure policies are adhered too.
  • Any other duties that may be assigned from time to time

Health & Safety:

The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the practice Health & Safety Policy, to include:

  • Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines
  • Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks
  • Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills
  • Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards
  • Reporting potential risks identified.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Domestic Assistant
  • CRITERIA
  • General cleaning experience
  • Clinical cleaning experience
  • Knowledge:
  • Infection control
  • CQC guidance
  • Skills/Abilities:
  • Good level of English, both written and spoken
  • Excellent cleaning abilities
  • Personality/Disposition:
  • Enthusiastic and flexible
  • Non judgemental
  • Challenges discrimination
  • Sensitive & empathetic
  • Travel:
  • Must be able to travel to all venues within an acceptable time frame

Desirable

  • Domestic Assistant
  • CRITERIA
  • General cleaning experience
  • Clinical cleaning experience
  • Knowledge:
  • Infection control
  • CQC guidance
  • Skills/Abilities:
  • Good level of English, both written and spoken
  • Excellent cleaning abilities
  • Personality/Disposition:
  • Enthusiastic and flexible
  • Non judgemental
  • Challenges discrimination
  • Sensitive & empathetic
  • Travel:
  • Must be able to travel to all venues within an acceptable time frame
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Domestic Assistant
  • CRITERIA
  • General cleaning experience
  • Clinical cleaning experience
  • Knowledge:
  • Infection control
  • CQC guidance
  • Skills/Abilities:
  • Good level of English, both written and spoken
  • Excellent cleaning abilities
  • Personality/Disposition:
  • Enthusiastic and flexible
  • Non judgemental
  • Challenges discrimination
  • Sensitive & empathetic
  • Travel:
  • Must be able to travel to all venues within an acceptable time frame

Desirable

  • Domestic Assistant
  • CRITERIA
  • General cleaning experience
  • Clinical cleaning experience
  • Knowledge:
  • Infection control
  • CQC guidance
  • Skills/Abilities:
  • Good level of English, both written and spoken
  • Excellent cleaning abilities
  • Personality/Disposition:
  • Enthusiastic and flexible
  • Non judgemental
  • Challenges discrimination
  • Sensitive & empathetic
  • Travel:
  • Must be able to travel to all venues within an acceptable time frame

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Inclusion Healthcare CIC

Address

No 5

5 Hill Street

Leicester

LE1 3PT


Employer's website

https://inclusionhealthcare.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Inclusion Healthcare CIC

Address

No 5

5 Hill Street

Leicester

LE1 3PT


Employer's website

https://inclusionhealthcare.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

For questions about the job, contact:

HR Manager

Monika Ward

monika.ward@nhs.net

01164647001

Date posted

17 November 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£11.44 an hour

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

B0148-24-0003

Job locations

No 5

5 Hill Street

Leicester

LE1 3PT


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