An opportunity has arisen for a permanent Senior Housekeeper at Renal Ward.
We are looking for an enthusiastic person with excellent organisational skills to join our team. The main focus of this role is to maintain a pleasant and welcoming environment for patients and families by ensuring the unit is kept clean, tidy and well stocked. The role also involve helping the nursing team with the delivery of patient food and beverages. The role also involves reception cover.
If you are a highly motivated, compassionate, with a desire to progress and develop your skills within a superb environment we would welcome your application.
The main duties of House keeper is to work as an integral part of the ward team ensuring a high quality service and environment to patients and liaise with, nursing team, patients and families.
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Many of our recruitment programmes use Value Based Interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significant difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families. For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit
The main responsibilities of Housekeepers are:
• To work as an integral part of the Ward team ensuring a high quality service to patients and to provide a service that ensures that the patients’ needs are satisfied and Ward requirements are met.
• To assist the Ward Manager to ensure the appropriate and effective delivery of facilities services in order to properly maintain the patient environment.
• To supervise an effective waste segregation and disposal service ensuring compliance with all relevant procedures and legislation.
• To work effectively as part of the ward/department team
• To ensure patients have appropriate food and drink provided.
This advert closes on Thursday 2 Jan 2025
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