Domestic Assistant

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust; Basingstoke and Deane; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 27,000; Part time

Job summary

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is recruiting two Part Time Domestic Services Grade 2 posts at Whitchurch Community Hospital. Each post is 15 hours per week with shift patterns including 4-7 pm and/or 3:30-6:30 pm, plus weekend work as part of a fair rota.

You will perform domestic duties such as mopping, dusting and hoovering, maintaining a high standard of cleanliness across the hospital. Salary £25,272 pro rata per annum; closing date 28/10/2026.

Qualifications

• Ability to demonstrate good numeracy and literacy skills
• Experience of cleaning which includes mopping, hoovering and dusting
• Understanding of importance of cleanliness in a health care environment
• General awareness of safety
• Good organisational skills

Responsibilities

• To perform domestic duties following NHS Trust guidelines e.g. mopping, buffing floors, dusting, hoovering , etc in all parts of the hospital (or other Trust establishments and surrounding areas as required)
• To maintain the required high level of standard of cleaning service using the correct procedures and frequencies.

Skills

Numeracy

Literacy

Job description

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Main area Domestic Services Grade 2 Contract Permanent: weekend and bank holiday enhancements working every 2 weeks rota Hours

• Part time
• Job share
• Flexible working

30 hours per week (x 2 posts available at 15 hours per week - work patterns available 4-7 pm and/or 3.30- 6.30 pm and every other weekend) Job ref 825-8317027-OPS

Site Whitchurch Community Hospital Town Whitchurch Salary £25,272 pro rata / per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 28/10/2026 08:00

We recognise that applicants may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to help build your application. However, all information provided must be an accurate reflection of your skills, knowledge, qualifications and experience. Candidates should be prepared to discuss and evidence the content of their application during the recruitment process.

We believe that compassionate care sits at the heart of everything we do. Every member of our team — clinical or non-clinical — plays a vital role in ensuring that patients, families, and colleagues are treated with dignity, empathy, and respect at all times.

We expect all staff to demonstrate compassion not only through their words, but through their actions: by listening attentively, communicating clearly and kindly, and recognising individual needs, feelings, and circumstances of those in our care.

Effective communication is central to safe and high-quality healthcare. We value colleagues who take the time to understand others, explain information in a meaningful way, and respond to concerns with patience and understanding.

By joining our team, you are committing to uphold these values — ensuring that every patient feels heard, respected, and valued, and that compassion is embedded in every interaction, every day.

Job overview

There are two posts available for 15 hours each.

Morning Shifts 7.15 am - 12.30 pm

Afternoon Shift -times can be discussed e.g. 1.30 pm - 6.30 pm

or 2.00 pm - 7.00pm

Early Evening Examples 3.00 pm - 6.00 pm 4.00 pm - 7.00 pm

Staff will need to work alternative weekends for the shift that they are recruited into and a need to cover bank holidays (on a fair rota basis with your team) as this is a 7 day service prioritising patient care at the heart of what we do

An exciting opportunity to join our hard working team taking pride in maintaining a high level of cleanliness throughout the hospital site

Main duties of the job

• To perform domestic duties following NHS Trust guidelines e.g. mopping, buffing floors, dusting, hoovering , etc in all parts of the hospital (or other Trust establishments and surrounding areas as required)
• To maintain the required high level of standard of cleaning service using the correct procedures and frequencies.

Uniform, as provided, must be worn at all times in the hospital environment and must not be worn to and from work. A high standard of personal hygiene must be maintained.

Working for our organisation

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.

Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.

Please note that this job does not meet the skill level requirements for work visa sponsorship and as such we will be unable to progress your application if you do not have the right to work in the UK.

Person specification

Training and Qualifications

• Ability to demonstrate good numeracy and literacy skills

Experience

• Experience of cleaning which includes mopping, hoovering and dusting

Knowledge and Skills

• Understanding of importance of cleanliness in a health care environment
• General awareness of safety
• Good organisational skills

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust believes in fairness, equity and above all, values diversity in all aspects of its work, as a provider of health services and as an employer of people. We provide visa sponsorship to applicants who require this in order to have the right to work in the UK, providing that the role you have been offered meets the requirements set by the Home Office.

Applicants requiring a Skilled Worker Visa (such as data analysts, IT and finance professionals, etc) will need to meet the salary threshold of £41,700 or the 'going rate' for the job you will be doing (whichever is higher). For a limited number of clinical posts ( listed here ), applications to the Health and Care Visa route will need to meet the national pay scale for their role or the minimum salary threshold of £25,000 (whichever is higher ). We advise that you check that the role you wish to apply for meets the requirement for sponsorship before applying.

Further guidance on eligible roles can be found here.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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