House Keeper - Cavell Medical Ward - fixed term.

Job summary

Do you have experience in a clinical environment? Are you looking for a change? Then our housekeeper opportunity may be what you are looking for.Cavell is a 28 bedded ward supporting patients with medical conditions, opening for 6 months to help with winter pressures.

We are looking for someone who is organised, pays attention to detail and can work without direct supervision. You will have excellent spoken and written communication skills and be computer literate.

Working pattern - Monday to Friday

Main duties of the job

To assist the Sister / Charge Nurse in ensuring a clean and tidy, safe and comfortable ward environment for patients. To work with all staff, patients and members of the public to achieve high standards of infection control. Working with nursing staff to ensure patients receive food and beverages according to their needs.

About us

With nearly9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.Their main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.