Band 2 Housekeeper | Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS foundation Trust; Rednal; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

A local healthcare provider is seeking a skilled housekeeper to enhance patient comfort by maintaining cleanliness in the clinical environment. Responsibilities include delivering meal services and ensuring compliance with cleaning standards. Candidates should be able to work independently and communicate effectively with others. This role offers various hours across a 7-day service and contributes to outstanding patient care in the community.

Qualifications

• Ability to work on initiative and as part of a team.
• Effective communication with patients, staff, and visitors.

Responsibilities

• Enhance patient experience by maintaining a clean clinical environment.
• Deliver meal/beverage service.
• Report maintenance issues.

Job description

Overview

*** This advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested. ***

Various Hours will be offered upon appointment to cover a 7-day service from 7.00am-19.30pm

Responsibilities

• 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.
• The successful candidates will have the ability to work on their own initiative and as part of a team, with the ability to communicate effectively to patients, staff and visitors.
• To ensure the environment is cleaned in line with national cleaning standards.
• Deliver meal/beverage service
• Cleaning Ward Kitchen/Meal area
• Following meal ordering procedures
• Report maintenance issues

Requirements

• Please ensure you check your TRAC account regularly as 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

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.

For further details on the main responsibilities, please see the attached Job Description and Person specification document.

Please see the attached person specification .

This advert closes on Friday 19 Sep 2025