Cleaner - Witney Community Hospital, Oxford
Band 2
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.
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 late, early, alternative weekends, and bank holidays over a rolling rota, whereby weekend and bank 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.
Person specification
Knowledge
* Some knowledge of working with cleaning chemicals.
Qualifications
* Basic cleaning skills.
* To demonstrate an interest in learning /further training.
Skills
* Ability to communicate sensitively with people who have mental health concerns.
* An understanding of the principles of delivering quality customer service.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
At Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust we want to employ people not just with experience, but with the aptitude and motivation to succeed and whose values resonate with our own.
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