Ancillary Service Premise Cleaner - Wetherby

Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust; Wetherby; On-site; GBP 12,000 - 18,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days annual leave

Contributory Pension

NHS Discounts

Job flexibility including part-time

Career development opportunities

Job summary

Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust is seeking a Premises Cleaner for Wetherby Ambulance Station. The role is 7.5 hours per week across Mon, Wed, Fri, 2.5 hours per day between 07:00 and 14:00, with pattern to be agreed.

The post requires a flexible, can-do attitude and basic IT skills to log activities. As part of the Facilities Management Team, you will help maintain high standards of cleanliness and infection prevention across our stations. Training and PPE are provided.

Qualifications

• Previous workplace premises cleaning experience within last two years.
• Good literacy and numerical skills to complete daily worksheets and reports.
• Awareness of Workplace Health and Safety, COSHH, Risk Assessments related to cleaning.

Responsibilities

• Clean stations and sites to high cleanliness and infection prevention standards.
• Maintain cleaning materials and record daily activities.
• Use basic IT tools for emails and timesheets.

Skills

Premises cleaning experience

Basic IT skills

Job description

Ancillary Service Premise Cleaner - Wetherby

Yorkshire Ambulance Service :Facilities Management Team, are offering an opportunity for a 7.5 hours per week, Premise Cleaner at our Wetherby Ambulance Station.

Monday, Wednesday & Friday, 2.5 hours per day between 0700 - 1400 (Specific working pattern to be agreed)

Working days and times are dependent upon provision required, due to the Yorkshire Ambulance Service being a 24/7 Emergency Service.

Allocated Bank Holiday working maybe required.

A very basic Physical Capability Assessment (PCA) is mandatory to this role, prior to any unconditional offer of employment.

Main duties of the job

Duties will include Station/Site Cleaning:

To undertake cleaning, decontamination, and other associated tasks to meet the high standards of cleanliness and Infection Prevention andControl measures required across our stations and sites.

To ensure that all activities are performed in line with the Trust Cleaning Protocols, procedures, and specific daily work schedules.

Achieving and maintaining all required standards of cleanliness across the organization. Our cleaning schedules include entrances and foyers, public and staff washrooms/toilets, kitchens, canteens/restaurant's, gym's, shower rooms, training rooms, corridors, stairs, landings, lifts, offices, contact centres, storerooms, dirty utility rooms, crew rooms, external areas, and other associated areas.

To ensure adequate stocks of cleaning materials are maintained and to record all daily activities. This will include urgent spillage and ad-hock cleaning and deep cleaning as requested or where identified.

Use of basic IT; access and inputting of information is essential. For example: Emails and time sheets.

About us

Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) NHS Trust geographically covers nearly 6,000 square miles of varied terrain, from isolated moors and dales to urban areas, coastline and inner cities.

We serve a population of over five million people across Yorkshire and the Humber and strive to ensure that patients receive the right response to their care needs as quickly as possible, wherever they live.

We employ more than 7,100 staff, who together with over 1,300 volunteers, enable us to provide a vital 24-hour, seven-days-a-week, emergency and healthcare service.

Our ambition is to be an employer of choice, and we are continuously working across our partnership to improve our collective offer to staff in areas like health and wellbeing, benefits and flexible working incl. hybrid working.

• Flexible working including part-time hours, job shares and flexible hours, agile working (role dependant)
• 27 days annual leave, increasing to 33 with service
• Contributory Pension
• NHS Discounts including shops, restaurants, gyms etc
• Car lease and other salary sacrifice schemes
• Dedicated employee assistance and counselling service
• Opportunities for research participation, career progression and ongoing development
• Well respected, committed and supported staff networks for our workforce

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Job responsibilities

Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification, for a full breakdown of duties and requirements within this role.

A flexible and can-do attitude towards ad-hoc changes in scheduled work, and any potential alternative location support cover within your shift is required.

Due to the required site support needs and the nature of the Emergency Services health care provision, short notice changes can occur within task and duties.

Can you work alone to effectively plan essential given tasks to ensure overall completion, within limited time restraints and communicate effectively with senior staff?

The successful candidate will be required to undertake a 1215-minute basic Physical Capability Assessment.

Person Specification

Experience

• Previous workplace premise cleaning experience within last two years.

Qualifications / Knowledge

• Good literacy and numerical skills in order to complete daily worksheets and reports.
• Awareness of Workplace Health and Safety, COSHH, Risk Assessments preferably associated to standard procedures and practices within the cleaning services sector
• Basic IT Skills including use of keyboard, hand held data devices and telephones.

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.