Main area: Ambulatory Care
Grade Band: 2
Contract: Permanent, 37.5 hours per week
Hours: Full time and part time hours considered (Shifts include 11.5 hour shifts with some weekend cover needed.)
Job ref: 164-6916622
Employer: Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Children's Assessment Unit and E37, QMC
Town: Nottingham
Salary: £23,615 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 17/03/2025 23:59
Ward Housekeeper
Band 2
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for a Ward Housekeeper to join a diverse and motivated team that is dedicated to the development of skills and the delivery of high quality safe care.
As the Ward Housekeeper, you are responsible for the general maintenance of the ward environment and will work closely with all members of our team. Excellent communication skills are essential.
As a caring and positive person, you will need to be able to work as part of an established team, have the ability to work flexibly, and be committed to ensuring the smooth running of the ward area.
We are looking for an individual who is self-motivated, content with working in a busy environment, and who has good time management skills. You must have excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to work autonomously and as part of a team. It is essential that you act professionally at all times, have excellent interpersonal skills, and the ability to prioritise your own workload.
Main duties of the job
The role will include, but is not limited to:
* Working closely with procurement to order and maintain stock levels.
* Managing the store rooms, staff and patient areas/facilities and ensuring a clean and tidy environment is maintained.
* Ward logistics e.g., helping move beds and clearing/cleaning bed spaces.
* Equipment/environment maintenance - liaising with estates/MESU ensuring all medical and non-medical devices and the ward environment are in a good state of repair and yearly PAT testing is undertaken.
* Answering telephone calls and signposting if/when appropriate.
Applicants must be able to demonstrate excellent communication and organisational skills.
The role requires close liaison with other disciplines and the provision of a courteous, reliable and quality consumer service to patients, relatives and carers, health professionals, internal departments, and outside organisations.
Working for our organisation
Berman 2 is a busy, fast-paced admissions and discharge ward.
We pride ourselves on being a supportive team and always strive to do our absolute best for our patients and their families. We also pride ourselves on providing an efficient and quality service; and the ward housekeeper is an integral part of the team.
We have a management team that is both innovative and proactive in ensuring that high quality care is delivered to our patients. We are keen to encourage developments in line with Trust policy and working in new ways. We recognise responsibility to ensure that staff are developed and stimulated within their environment in order to achieve vision and deliver care that reflects the values and behaviours of the team.
Person specification
Experience
* Experience working within a hospital setting and other customer service experience.
* Works/has previously worked for NUH.
* Experience working in an acute healthcare setting.
Communication & Relationship Skills
* Demonstrates ability to work flexibly and under pressure.
* Demonstrates effective lone working and ability to work within a team.
* Demonstrates basic IT skills.
* Demonstrates computer literacy - experience working with Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.
Analytical and Judgement skills
* Proactive and enthusiastic approach to work.
* Strives to maintain a clean and tidy environment.
* Willingness to learn and develop new skills.
* Can demonstrate knowledge of current issues related to NUH Trust and the NHS.
Planning and organisation skills
* Can plan and prioritise own workload and respond appropriately to urgent/emergency situations.
* Can contribute to the development, implementation, and monitoring of local objectives and action plans.
* Demonstrates the ability to support their colleagues.
* Demonstrates effective resource management.
Physical Skills
* Dexterity and accuracy in undertaking physical skills.
* Demonstrates ability to adequately use equipment and document appropriately.
* Able to undertake patient manual handling manoeuvres.
* Experience in the use of medical equipment.
* Demonstrates willingness/ability to learn how to use new systems/equipment.
Other requirements specific to the role
* Demonstrate flexibility in order to meet the demands of the service.
* Enthusiastic and well-motivated.
Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.
Applicants are kindly requested to refrain from using AI at any stage during the recruitment process.
Closing Dates: Please submit your application form as soon as possible to avoid disappointment; we reserve the right to close vacancies prior to the published closing date if we receive a sufficient number of completed application forms.
Communication: All communication related to your application will be via the email address you have provided. Please ensure you check your email account including your junk email regularly.
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If you are aged 16 or 17 and applying for a role that is more than 20 hours a week, please be aware that you will be asked to commence an Apprenticeship within the Trust alongside your role, as long as there is a suitable apprenticeship standard available.
Salary: The quoted salary will be on a pro-rata basis for part-time workers.
Disability Confidence: All applicants who have declared a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the post will be shortlisted.
At Risk of redundancy: NHS employees within the East Midlands who are ‘at risk’ of redundancy will be given a preferential interview where they meet the essential criteria of the person specification.
ID and Right to work checks: NUH authenticate ID and right to work documentation including passports and driving licenses through a system called Trust ID.
Consent:
* Transfer of information: If I have previous NHS service - I consent to the transfer of my Electronic Staff Record (ESR) data between this and other NHS Trusts.
* Disclosure and Barring Service: Your post may be subject to a DBS check which incurs a cost dependent on the level of check required (£42.90 for enhanced and £22.90 for standard).
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name: Lisa Carducci
Job title: Ward Manager
Email address: lisa.carducci@nhs.net
Additional information: Julie Cobb Ward Admin email: julie.cobb3@nhs.net
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