Facilities Management Assistant (Domestic / Cleaner)
Band 2
Main area: Domestic Vacancies
Grade: Band 2
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 13.5 hours per week (Mon + Tues 13:30-16:30, Wed, Thurs + Fri 14:00-16:30)
Job ref: 350-TWS6769776
Site: Mersey Reach
Town: Liverpool
Salary: £23,615 pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 24/11/2024 23:59
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore, we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Estates and Facilities Department for an enthusiastic team member for a Facilities Management Assistant (FMA) Domestic cleaner.
The post is suited to a motivated and experienced Domestic services worker to work at Mersey Reach.
The successful candidate will provide a cleaning service around this Division ensuring National cleaning standards, PLACE requirements and CQC standards are met.
Main duties of the job
* To work to a high standard to meet national standards
* Work as part of a team working flexible hours to deliver cleaning cover throughout the year
* Work to an agreed cleaning schedule and complete relevant documentation
* Responsible for ensuring all cleaning equipment and cleaning agents are available
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* NHS experience and training in safety, health and catering or cleaning tasks
* Experience of working in a similar role (cleaning or catering)
* Experience of working in the NHS
* Knowledge of the National Standards of Cleanliness and NHS Colour Coding
* Experience of dealing with people
Person specification
Qualifications
* NHS experience and training in safety, health and catering or cleaning tasks
* CIEH Foundation Certificate in Food Hygiene, or equivalent
KNOWLEDGE/EXPERIENCE:
* Experience of working in a similar role (cleaning or catering)
* Experience of working in the NHS
* Experience of dealing with people
* Knowledge of the National Standards of Cleanliness and NHS Colour Coding
* Experience of working in a multi-skilled environment
SKILLS
* Able to function as a member of a team and support the management objectives of the department and Trust
* Able to deal with requests from service users, managers and staff in a friendly and helpful way
* Flexible
* Good interpersonal and communication skills
* Able to work both independently and as part of a team
* Able to carry out manual tasks
Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs not NHS Jobs.
Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email recruitment@merseycare.nhs.uk to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £13 per year and maintain registration.
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.
Name: Christine Harris
Job title: Facilities Site Manager
Email address: chris.harris@merseycare.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 07748142773
Please contact the above for further information
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