Facilities Assistant (Domestic)
Working on a 2 week shift pattern:
1. Week 1: Mon, Tue, Sat, Sun 1500-2100
2. Week 2: Wed, Thu, Fri 1500-2100
As a Domestic Facilities Assistant, your role is integral in keeping our hospitals clean and safe for our patients, visitors, and staff. The NHS couldn’t function without you.
You will be part of a dynamic and adaptable team whose main focus is to clean to the highest standards and frequencies possible to maintain a clean, pleasant, and safe environment, reducing the risk and spread of infection.
Your responsibilities will include:
1. Clean and conduct domestic duties as guided by your team leaders.
2. Organise day-to-day cleaning duties adapting to best suit the needs of the ward/department. This will include cleaning of beds, floors, toilets, sinks, mopping, damp dusting, cleaning of internal glass, walls, vacuuming, scrubbing (manual and machine), steam cleaning, and buffing.
3. Perform ‘deep’ and ‘specialised’ cleans in accordance with training and method statements provided and be involved in full ward decants when requested.
4. Changing of bay curtains, bed drapes, and cleaning of blinds.
5. Work as part of the ward or department team (where appropriate) to respond to requests from the ward matron or department manager in relation to work priorities, local protocols, and procedures.
6. Be flexible and adapt to unforeseen requests and tasks as appropriate to the environment.
7. Work in accordance and follow COSHH (Control of Substances Hazardous to Health) and health and safety manual handling policies.
8. Maintenance/cleaning of all cleaning equipment.
9. Ensure safe segregation and removal of waste in accordance with waste management guidelines and policies.
NTH Solutions is a wholly owned subsidiary company of North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust, established in April 2018 to provide estates, facilities, and support services.
Our main priority is to provide safe and high-quality care to our patients every day; the kind of care we would want for ourselves and our loved ones. We want our organisation to be the best place to work with the right staff, in the right roles, at the right time, to ensure we deliver exceptional patient care and experience.
We will support staff through providing an inclusive and supportive workplace with health and well-being initiatives, staff benefits, and opportunities for personal and professional development.
At NTH Solutions, we work as a team, we support each other, learn from one another, and have our patients at the heart of everything we do.
This advert closes on Thursday 12 Dec 2024.
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