Equans Working with Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
INTERVIEWS WILL BE ON THURSDAY 9 JANUARY 2025 AND THURSDAY 16 JANUARY 2025
A vacancy has arisen for Patient Services Assistants to join the busy Patient Services Department at QA Hospital. Only apply if you can work the following:
12.30pm to 8.00pm - Monday to Friday - 35 Hours
Applicants must have excellent customer care skills and high standards of personal hygiene.
The post is monthly paid and uniform is provided. The successful applicant will receive a first-class training package, including on and off the job training. Other benefits include a generous annual leave entitlement and the opportunity to join the NHS pension scheme.
Please apply online or for more information, please contact the FM Office on 02392286000 x 5336 between 9am and 3pm, Monday to Friday.
This position requires a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) form to be completed.
FM Services and Portsmouth University Hospitals NHS Trust have a smoke-free policy. Smoking is not permitted inside our buildings or in the grounds of any of our premises.
The Trust is committed to valuing the benefits of diversity in its staff and is committed to equal opportunities.
Main duties of the job
1. Responsible for cleaning all floors, furniture, fixtures, fittings, glassware, and sanitary areas within Clinical and Non-Clinical Areas.
2. Carry out daily cleans, planned routine scrubs on wards, and ad hoc infectious scrubs as directed following outbreaks (e.g., MRSA, diarrhoea and vomiting, hepatitis) to ensure bed blocking is kept to a minimum.
3. Daily cleaning of sanitary fixtures and fittings in patient and public areas.
4. High and low level cleaning, spot washing walls, dusting curtain tracks, radiators, and window ledges, and cleaning internal glass and doorframes as required.
5. Changing window and bed curtains as routine and after an infectious clean/scrub.
6. Cleaning of patient-related furniture, including bedframes, lockers, tables, and chairs.
7. Using heavy mechanical cleaning equipment (e.g., scrubbers, wet pickups, buffers) to clean floors in wards, bathrooms, toilets, and corridors.
8. Cleaning of Theatres, including daily scrubbing of floors, sinks, and surrounding dirty and clean corridors, following department and Infection Control guidelines.
About us
Equans working in Partnership with Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.
The Trust is committed to driving excellence in care for our patients and communities and was rated good by the Care Quality Commission report published in 2020, becoming a University Hospital.
We are ranked as third in the country for research; embedding education and training across the organization and continuously striving to achieve our core values.
The Trust's main hub is the QAH, starting life as a military hospital over a century ago and now one of the largest hospitals on the south coast. The Trust provides comprehensive secondary care and specialist services to a local population of 675,000 people across South East Hampshire.
The Trust employs over 8,000 staff and we are #ProudtobePHU; our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for providing outstanding care and support for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at PHU.
In recruiting for our team, we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veterans status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.
Job responsibilities
EQUIPMENT AND MACHINERY
The postholder will be required to operate the following equipment:
* Tub or cylinder vacuum.
* Hot water boilers/kettles.
* Safety Steps.
* Scrubber/Dryer machines.
* Steam cleaner machines.
This list is not exhaustive but indicative of the equipment in use.
SYSTEMS
Follow SOPs (Working Instructions) to ensure that the department is run in an efficient and safe manner.
* Completion of Stores Request forms.
* Completion of own timesheet / holiday sheets / sickness notes.
* Reporting of faulty equipment to the Domestic Supervisor or Estates department.
* Completion of paperwork relevant to the post.
* Completion of staff surveys.
* Participating in relevant audits.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* No Experience Necessary But Desirable
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.
Employer name
Equans Working with Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
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