A Vacancy at University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust.
New Year, new career!
We’re looking for new recruits to join Royal Bournemouth Hospital Housekeeping Department.
If you are interested in working in a healthcare setting as part of our housekeeping team, working with colleagues at #TeamUHD to keep our hospital clean, safe and infection free, then visit our Recruitment Event at Bournemouth Hospital on Saturday 18 January 2025 between 9am and 3pm, to find out more about opportunities to kick-start your career with us.
We have opportunities across our Bournemouth Hospital site, including opportunities to work within our brand new BEACH building, which opens in early 2025.
We will be offering a tour of the hospital, and providing opportunities to chat with colleagues about the role and what you can expect when working within the Housekeeping Team.
We will be offering interviews with our team on the day, and once interviewed, you could be given a job offer on the day.
The Housekeeping service operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week – and we are able to offer shifts across weekdays, weekends, nights, and bank holidays. We offer full and part time contracts of between 16 hours and 37.5 hours per week.
If you would prefer to work ‘as and when, we will also be recruiting for our temporary staffing bank.
Submit your application now, or support will be offered to do this on the day. If you are successful at interview we are looking to start applicants as soon as possible, to do this we need you to bring your ID documents and vaccination history. Please see attached documents for more information.
Date: Saturday 9am – 3pm on the 18th January 2025.
Location: Education Centre, Royal Bournemouth Hospital (see attached map)
Some of our staff benefits
• Excellent paid training and induction
• 35 days leave (including 8 bank holidays), rising to 37 days after 5 years and 41 days after 10 years.
• Excellent maternity and sick pay packages
• NHS Pension Scheme
• NHS Discount Schemes including the ‘blue light card’
• Cycle to Work Scheme
We look forward to seeing from you
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued team mates and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.
• To clean rooms – bedded areas, kitchens, offices, wards and departments, to include infected areas (Infection Control driven Terminal Cleans and Barrier Cleans).
• To clean furniture, fixtures and fittings.
• To clean toilets and washrooms and replenish the supplies – soap/toilet rolls/hand towels/hand gels.
• Clean floors – damp mopping/dry mopping/vacuuming and using scrubber driers.
• Clean glass/mirrors.
• To empty bins and remove clinical and household waste including cardboard.
• Spot clean walls, doors, floors and partitions.
• Remove soiled linen – change curtains.
• Maintain good hand hygiene at all times to avoid cross contamination.
This advert closes on Sunday 12 Jan 2025
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