Housekeeper - Witney Community Hospital, Oxford

Oxford Health NHS Trust

The closing date is 21 April 2025

Job summary

We are recruiting for a part-time Housekeeper to join our friendly, enthusiastic and dedicated team at Witney Community Hospital.

This role enhances the patient experience by providing a high-quality cleaning and catering service. You'll be ensuring a clean, safe environment is maintained and provide catering provisions for clients, for which in-house training will be provided.

The role involves shift working including lates, earlies, weekends, and bank holidays over a rolling rota, whereby weekend and banks holidays are paid at an enhanced rate.

If you're a team player with a proven track record of being able to deliver a high-quality cleaning service, this could be the role for you, and we want to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

Cleaning and maintaining the patient rooms, public areas, back of house areas such as linen room and laundry areas, according to Trust policy and procedures at a level that meets or exceeds National Cleanliness standards.
Plan own work in-line with the daily cleaning routines and cleaning tasks as per rota.
Carry out terminal and enhanced cleans as per local procedures
Participate in cleaning audits as necessary
Handle and remove waste in line with segregation processes and procedures
Unpack and stack all linen and laundry.
Regenerate cook/chill meals recording the temperatures of food at stages defined as appropriate within the relevant wards.

Please refer to the job description attached for a comprehensive list of duties

About us

Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the "candidate guide to making an application" and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.

As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people's homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: "Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team"

Our values are:"Caring, safe and excellent"

At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

Excellent opportunities for career progression
Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
Competitive pension scheme
Lease car scheme
Cycle to work scheme
Employee Assistance Programme
Mental Health First Aiders
Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Date posted

02 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 2

Salary

£24,169 a year per annum | pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

267-CS6743017-3B

Job locations

Witney Community Hospital

Welch Way

Witney

OX28 6JJ

Job description

Job responsibilities

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the supporting statement element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.

The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Person Specification

Knowledge

Essential

Some knowledge of working with cleaning chemicals

Qualifications

Essential

Basic cleaning skills.

Desirable

To demonstrate an interest in learning /further training.

Skills

Essential

Good communication skills.
Ability to communicate sensitively with people who have mental health concerns.
An understanding of the principles of delivering quality customer service.

Person Specification

Knowledge

Essential

Some knowledge of working with cleaning chemicals

Qualifications

Essential

Basic cleaning skills.

Desirable

To demonstrate an interest in learning /further training.

Skills

Essential

Good communication skills.
Ability to communicate sensitively with people who have mental health concerns.
An understanding of the principles of delivering quality customer service.

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.