Duty Housekeeper

Job description

Job responsibilities

Horder Healthcare is on the lookout for experienced Duty Housekeeper to join our fantastic corporate housekeeping team. Playing an essential part in the success of our highly-reputable hospitals, this role is key to ensuring that the hospital, patient rooms, and employee areas are cleaned and maintained to a professionally high standard. And with this role being front-facing, we are keen to welcome warm, motivated and proactive individuals to the team.

Location: The McIndoe Centre, East Grinstead.

About you:

• You will be personal and approachable, with a real motivation to help uphold the outstanding rating proudly held by The Horder Centre.
• Prior housekeeping experience, preferably within a similar setting.
• Excellent communication skills, to help build those all-important and respected relationships with your team and wider teams.
• Proactive and forward thinking, with a passion for continued learning.

Key Duties:

• To be responsible for organising the workload or activities of the cleaning services for the organisation to a high standard.
• To be responsible for overseeing and direction of a team of housekeeping assistants, providing supervision and ensuring their duties are completed correctly, whilst adhering to Horder Healthcare policies.
• It is a requirement of the role that you as a Duty housekeeper take charge/work bank holidays if required.
• It is a requirement of the role that you do not take any of your Annual Leave at the same time as the Housekeeping Manager or other Duty Housekeeper.
• It is a requirement of the role that you do work 1 in 4 weekends

Salary: £20,381.49 pro-rata (£23,427.00 FTE) - £21,354.15 pro-rata (£24,545.00 FTE) per annum

In accordance with Home Office guidance successful candidates will be required to evidence their right to work in the UK before commencement of employment. We have assessed this role and do not consider that we would be able to sponsor a successful candidate under the Skilled Worker route as the role does not meet the relevant Home Office criteria; the successful candidate therefore must be able to demonstrate their own right to work during the recruitment process without Horder Healthcare sponsorship.

At Horder Healthcare, we are proud to champion and celebrate diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging in all areas of our business. We are committed to creating an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to protected characteristics by applicable law.

As a disability confident employer, we are pleased to offer our full support should you require an alternative method of applying or any reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process.

In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.

Due to the nature of work here at Horder Healthcare, and to ensure that we remain committed to our Safeguarding policy, any applicant upon an initial offer of employment will be subject to pre-employment checks, including an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS check). References and Occupational Health checks will also be taken up before appointment.

Person Specification

About you

Essential

• You will be personal and approachable, with a real motivation to help uphold the outstanding rating proudly held by The Horder Centre.
• Prior housekeeping experience, preferably within a similar setting.
• Excellent communication skills, to help build those all-important and respected relationships with your team and wider teams.
• Proactive and forward thinking, with a passion for continued learning.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Horder Healthcare

Address

Horder Healthcare

East Grinstead

RH19 3EB

Employer's website

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