Job summary
We are looking for a full time housekeeper to provide a KEY service within the hospital for both staff and patients.
This is a challenging but rewarding job and would be ideally suited to motivated team players. Housekeeping experience within healthcare and Knowledge of COSHH, BICs, Colour coding and infection control is desirable though this is not essential, as full training will be given.
A maths and English assessment is required for the role.
Main duties of the job
Work as a member of the housekeeping team, contributing to the provision of a comfortable and effective stay for patients, by ensuring that the ward/departments are maintained to a high standard of cleanliness and to help serve meals as required.
Work as a member of the ward and department team, ensuring that all areas are cleaned to a high standard of cleanliness, maintaining a pleasant environment for staff, patients and visitors.
About us
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
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.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties
This role is based at Farnham Hospital.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Vacuum/mop sweep/damp mop/spot clean/spray buffing of floor surfaces, using machinery as required.
- High and low dust (including skirting boards/window ledges/curtain rails/notice boards/picture frames/furniture/doors and door stays)
- Vacuum carpeted areas, daily removal of spots or stains, andshampooing of carpets using machinery on housekeeping supervisor instruction.
- Collection and tagging of all rubbish, removing bags, clinical waste bins, sharps bins and flattened cardboard containers to designated collection points.
- Ensure 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.
- Attend to deep clean requests throughout the hospital
- Damp dust/polish desks, furniture, fittings at nurse 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.
- Damp wipe light switches.
- Remove spots and splashes from paintwork on doors and walls.
- Assist with curtain changing.
- Infected rooms should be cleaned as instructed by ward sister/housekeeping supervisor and following the procedure laid down in agreement with Infection Control.
- All cleaning equipment should be maintained in a clean and hygienic condition, and guidelines for correct storage of equipment and materials must be adhered to. Faulty electrical equipment must be removed from use, and reported to the ward charge nurse/housekeeping supervisor immediately.
- Monitors stock control.
- A follow up clean of surfaces contaminated by body fluid spillage will be carried out after the initial clean by nursing staff (see Trust policy on dealing with spillage).
- Catering duties where applicable.
- Coffee shop / kitchen duties
- Prepare and serve drinks to patients as required.
- Collect wash and change patient water jugs.
- Collect, rinse and load ward dishwasher with dirty crockery and cutlery from patient breakfast service.
- Hand out patient menus and take orders for lunch service ensuring that the menu summary collation sheet for patients including special diets is completed as required.
- Patient privacy and confidentiality must be respected at all times
Please see Job Description and Person Specification for further information
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Vacuum/mop sweep/damp mop/spot clean/spray buffing of floor surfaces, using machinery as required.
- High and low dust (including skirting boards/window ledges/curtain rails/notice boards/picture frames/furniture/doors and door stays)
- Vacuum carpeted areas, daily removal of spots or stains, andshampooing of carpets using machinery on housekeeping supervisor instruction.
- Collection and tagging of all rubbish, removing bags, clinical waste bins, sharps bins and flattened cardboard containers to designated collection points.
- Ensure 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.
- Attend to deep clean requests throughout the hospital
- Damp dust/polish desks, furniture, fittings at nurse 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.
- Damp wipe light switches.
- Remove spots and splashes from paintwork on doors and walls.
- Assist with curtain changing.
- Infected rooms should be cleaned as instructed by ward sister/housekeeping supervisor and following the procedure laid down in agreement with Infection Control.
- All cleaning equipment should be maintained in a clean and hygienic condition, and guidelines for correct storage of equipment and materials must be adhered to. Faulty electrical equipment must be removed from use, and reported to the ward charge nurse/housekeeping supervisor immediately.
- Monitors stock control.
- A follow up clean of surfaces contaminated by body fluid spillage will be carried out after the initial clean by nursing staff (see Trust policy on dealing with spillage).
- Catering duties where applicable.
- Coffee shop / kitchen duties
- Prepare and serve drinks to patients as required.
- Collect wash and change patient water jugs.
- Collect, rinse and load ward dishwasher with dirty crockery and cutlery from patient breakfast service.
- Hand out patient menus and take orders for lunch service ensuring that the menu summary collation sheet for patients including special diets is completed as required.
- Patient privacy and confidentiality must be respected at all times
Please see Job Description and Person Specification for further information
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Good level of basic education - able to demonstrate literacy, numeracy and comprehension skills
- Period of induction and on the job training
Desirable
- NVQ level 1
- Basic food Hygiene
Skills
Essential
- Good time management skills - able to plan and prioritise time and workload
- Understanding of confidentiality
- Basic IT skills
Experience
Essential
- Basic housekeeping experience
- Hygiene COSSH procedures
Desirable
- NHS experience
- Housekeeping/cleaning Experience
- Infection prevention and control
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Good level of basic education - able to demonstrate literacy, numeracy and comprehension skills
- Period of induction and on the job training
Desirable
- NVQ level 1
- Basic food Hygiene
Skills
Essential
- Good time management skills - able to plan and prioritise time and workload
- Understanding of confidentiality
- Basic IT skills
Experience
Essential
- Basic housekeeping experience
- Hygiene COSSH procedures
Desirable
- NHS experience
- Housekeeping/cleaning Experience
- Infection prevention and control
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.
