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Job Description
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- Deliver meal/beverage service
- Cleaning medical/hard equipment.
- Manage linen quality.
- Report maintenance issues
- Please ensure you check yourTRAC account regularlyas this is how we will communicate with you during the shortlisting and selection process.
- Please ensure all sections of the application form are completed fully. Please particularly ensure that you provide full details of all referees including BUSINESS EMAIL ADDRESS, telephone contact details and postal address
- Responsible for the safe and effective delivery of the housekeeping/catering service.
- Undertake scheduled cleaning tasks, including the cleaning of clinical equipment, as per schedules.
- Uphold all Infection Prevention and Control measures as required within the Trust.
- Ensuring that all domestic consumables are available at all times in the appropriate dispenser/holder.
- Undertake ad-hoc cleaning tasks as required by the Senior Housekeeper or nursing staff.
- Undertake catering tasks as per the work schedule ensuring that all Food Hygiene and Health & Safety Legislation is adhered to.
- Ensuring that the day room and dining areas are kept clean and presentable for patients and visitors.
- Ensure that there are sufficient ingredients for beverages, ward provisions, snack boxes and condiments available for use
- Assist with the curtain change programme.
- Report the need for any estates maintenance requests to the Senior Housekeeper.
- Identify areas for continuous improvement and liaising with the Senior Housekeeper to develop those improvements.
- Ensure close liaison and interfacing with the nursing staff to ensure there is a co-ordinated approach to the delivery of the housekeeping service.
- Responsible for ensuring that housekeeping tasks have been undertaken competently in order that the Trust performs well in internal and external audits.
- Responsible for ensuring any complaints received are relayed to the Senior Housekeeper and any adjustments or corrective actions are implemented.
- Responsible for the safe and effective delivery of the housekeeping/catering service.
- Undertake scheduled cleaning tasks, including the cleaning of clinical equipment, as per schedules.
- Uphold all Infection Prevention and Control measures as required within the Trust.
- Ensuring that all domestic consumables are available at all times in the appropriate dispenser/holder.
- Undertake ad-hoc cleaning tasks as required by the Senior Housekeeper or nursing staff.
- Undertake catering tasks as per the work schedule ensuring that all Food Hygiene and Health & Safety Legislation is adhered to.
- Ensuring that the day room and dining areas are kept clean and presentable for patients and visitors.
- Ensure that there are sufficient ingredients for beverages, ward provisions, snack boxes and condiments available for use
- Assist with the curtain change programme.
- Report the need for any estates maintenance requests to the Senior Housekeeper.
- Identify areas for continuous improvement and liaising with the Senior Housekeeper to develop those improvements.
- Ensure close liaison and interfacing with the nursing staff to ensure there is a co-ordinated approach to the delivery of the housekeeping service.
- Responsible for ensuring that housekeeping tasks have been undertaken competently in order that the Trust performs well in internal and external audits.
- Responsible for ensuring any complaints received are relayed to the Senior Housekeeper and any adjustments or corrective actions are implemented.
- Level 2 Food Safety & Hygiene Certificate or willingness to complete within the first 12 weeks of employment
- Good basic education - Ability to read and write and numerical skills.
- NVQ Level 2 British Institute of Cleaning Science in Domestic Services
- Good knowledge of Health and Safety including COSSH, Safe Systems of Cleaning Tasks.
- Excellent knowledge of Food Hygiene including temperature control and HACCP.
- Relevant experience of working within a healthcare setting.
- Full knowledge of cleaning schedules.
- Good communicator, to mix with a variety of people
- Flexible in working practices and hours
- Ability to be able to follow clear instructions
- Ability to show empathy and understanding of patient's needs
- Good understanding of policies and procedures
- To be proactive in ensuring effective relationships are maintained
- To work well and effectively in a team and alone
- To deliver the highest levels of customer service promoting a professional and caring manner
- Level 2 Food Safety & Hygiene Certificate or willingness to complete within the first 12 weeks of employment
- Good basic education - Ability to read and write and numerical skills.
- NVQ Level 2 British Institute of Cleaning Science in Domestic Services
- Good knowledge of Health and Safety including COSSH, Safe Systems of Cleaning Tasks.
- Excellent knowledge of Food Hygiene including temperature control and HACCP.
- Relevant experience of working within a healthcare setting.
- Full knowledge of cleaning schedules.
- Good communicator, to mix with a variety of people
- Flexible in working practices and hours
- Ability to be able to follow clear instructions
- Ability to show empathy and understanding of patient's needs
- Good understanding of policies and procedures
- To be proactive in ensuring effective relationships are maintained
- To work well and effectively in a team and alone
- To deliver the highest levels of customer service promoting a professional and caring manner
Job summary
** This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested. **
BCHC is looking to hire a group of new housekeepers to join its housekeeping team at Moseley Hall Hospital. The position will be for 31.25 hours a week working a variety of shifts across the week.
Main duties of the job
The Housekeeper will work within the Trust Facilities Management structure to ensure that the housekeeping service supports clinical colleagues.
Key areas of responsibility will be as follows:
To ensure the environment is cleaned in line with national cleaning standards.
The housekeeper will enhance the patient's experience by ensuring that the clinical environment is presented and maintained in a way which maximises the patient's sense of comfort, safety and well-being.
About us
IMPORTANT
Be Part of Our Team...
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for better care and healthier communities, we want to hear from you.
Date posted
28 February 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 2
Salary
£23,615 a year per annum (pro rata)
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
820-7001692-COR
Job locations
Moseley Hall Hospital
Alcester Road
Birmingham
B13 8JL
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Experience
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Personal Qualities
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Additional informationDisclosure 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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Employer details
Employer name
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT
Address
Moseley Hall Hospital
Alcester Road
Birmingham
B13 8JL
Employer's website
Employer details
Employer name
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT
Address
Moseley Hall Hospital
Alcester Road
Birmingham
B13 8JL
Employer's website
About the company
National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.
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