Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for successful candidates to join our great team of domestics.
The post holder must have an excellent work ethic and an great eye for detail.
We are a large team of domestics covering 3 shifts , days evenings and nights.
We pride ourselves on providing outstanding care and experience to our patients and their families.
We currently have a number of vacancies
- Monday - Friday -4pm-8pm 20 hrs per week
- Friday - Monday - 8am-3pm 26 hrs per week
- Monday - Friday- 8am-2pm 27.5 hrs per week
Main duties of the job
Duties include cleaning patient clinical areas to the national cleaning standards, office areas , departments, public areas, corridors , Theatres, Cath labs, intensive care units. Serving patient beverages
Cleaning stairs, lifts touch points
Using equipment such as buffers, mops hoovers, steam cleaners, decontamination systems
About us
As the largest single site specialist heart and chest hospital in the UK, we, at Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, have a clear vision 'to be the best cardiothoracic integrated healthcare organisation'.
We provide specialist services in cardiothoracic surgery, cardiology, respiratory medicine both in the hospital and out in the community.
We serve a catchment area of 2.8 million people, spanning Merseyside, Cheshire, North Wales and the Isle of Man, and increasingly we receive referrals from outside these areas for highly specialised services such as aortics.
Our reputation for strong performance is important in delivering the best care for our patients and high quality clinical services. This is underpinned by a culture of research and innovation, delivered in modern estate and our encouragement of flexible working in a variety of forms.
Please visit our website - https://www.lhch.nhs.uk/
Please follow this link for a tour of our site - https://bit.ly/36ylsoq
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Clean all areas to the national standard of cleanliness using equipment provide to carry out hovering, buffing, scrubbing of, mopping, high and low level dusting
- Take down and hang curtains on windows and bed cubicles and ensure curtains bagged correctly for laundering
- Cleaning windows in wards, departments, theatres and corridors
- Toilet, bathroom, shower cleaning
- Deep cleaning to Trust infection control cleaning policy
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- Responsible for ensuring colour coded cleaning system carried out and mop heads bagged correctly for laundering in line with domestic departmental procedures
- Liaise with nursing and departmental staff concerning cleaning duties, to ensure information is shared to promote a clean environment
- Inform Supervisors/line manager of equipment failures/faults of any equipment used to perform duties
- Responsible for cleaning domestic equipment used within the location and ensure secured safely after use, in line with Health & Safety and Housekeeping procedures
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Clean all areas to the national standard of cleanliness using equipment provide to carry out hovering, buffing, scrubbing of, mopping, high and low level dusting
- Take down and hang curtains on windows and bed cubicles and ensure curtains bagged correctly for laundering
- Cleaning windows in wards, departments, theatres and corridors
- Toilet, bathroom, shower cleaning
- Deep cleaning to Trust infection control cleaning policy
-
- Responsible for ensuring colour coded cleaning system carried out and mop heads bagged correctly for laundering in line with domestic departmental procedures
- Liaise with nursing and departmental staff concerning cleaning duties, to ensure information is shared to promote a clean environment
- Inform Supervisors/line manager of equipment failures/faults of any equipment used to perform duties
- Responsible for cleaning domestic equipment used within the location and ensure secured safely after use, in line with Health & Safety and Housekeeping procedures
Person Specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential
- 1 year experience working within a cleaning or catering service or retail with cleaning duties
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Knowledge of cleaning Procedures, colour coding and COSHH Able to use own initiative on routine cleaning
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Personal effort to undertake all aspects of a cleaning, using scrubbing machines, buffers, hovers, suction, steam equipment, move furniture and hang bed curtains with the wards using ladders
- Basic IT Computer skills
Values & Behaviours
Essential
- Must be able to demonstrate the values & behaviours of the Trust
- Team work - be part of our team
- Accountability - ownership of your duties
- Continuous improvements - help to improve our services to patients
- Patient & Family centred - putting our patients and families first
Person Specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential
- 1 year experience working within a cleaning or catering service or retail with cleaning duties
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Knowledge of cleaning Procedures, colour coding and COSHH Able to use own initiative on routine cleaning
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Personal effort to undertake all aspects of a cleaning, using scrubbing machines, buffers, hovers, suction, steam equipment, move furniture and hang bed curtains with the wards using ladders
- Basic IT Computer skills
Values & Behaviours
Essential
- Must be able to demonstrate the values & behaviours of the Trust
- Team work - be part of our team
- Accountability - ownership of your duties
- Continuous improvements - help to improve our services to patients
- Patient & Family centred - putting our patients and families first
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.
