Domestic Assistant - Higher Level

Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Blyth; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 28,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a dedicated team at Blyth Community Hospital as a Domestic Assistant, where your role is crucial to maintaining a clean and safe environment for patients and staff. This part-time position offers flexible hours, allowing you to balance work with personal commitments. You'll be responsible for various cleaning tasks, from routine maintenance to deep cleaning, ensuring the highest standards of hygiene are met. With a supportive work culture and competitive pay, this is an opportunity to make a real difference in the NHS while enjoying various employee benefits. If you have a passion for cleanliness and public interaction, we want to hear from you!

Benefits

Competitive rates of pay

Enhanced rates for evenings and weekends

Generous annual leave

Occupational sick pay

Childcare schemes

Priority access to vaccinations

Physiotherapy and counselling services

Qualifications

• Basic Food Hygiene Certificate required within 6 months of start date.
• Previous experience in cleaning is essential.

Responsibilities

• Maintain cleanliness in wards, departments, and offices.
• Perform deep cleans and manage waste disposal.

Skills

Good Communication Skills

Basic Numerate & Literate Skills

Previous Cleaning Experience

Education

Basic Food Hygiene and/or Level 1 Food Safety Certificate

NVQ Level 1 or 2 or equivalent

GCSE Maths and English or equivalent

Job description

Main area Domestic Services Grade NHS AfC: Band 2 Contract Permanent Hours

• Part time
• Flexible working

20 hours per week (One post of 20 hrs per week, One post of 16.5 hrs per week.) Job ref 319-6978084LW

Site Blyth Community Hospital Town Blyth Salary £23,615 pro rata per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 18/02/2025 23:59

NHFM is a wholly owned subsidiary of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. Established in 2012, NHFM provide specialist project management services for large and small capital developments, estates maintenance and a full range of facilities services for all of Northumbria Healthcare Trust’s sites.

Come and work for us and we can offer you:

• Competitive rates of pay
• Enhanced rates of pay for working evenings, nights, weekends and bank holidays
• Favourable employment terms and conditions – we mirror NHS Agenda for Change terms and conditions which includes up to 33 days annual leave + bank holidays per year, generous maternity and paternity leave provisions, occupational sick pay, and much more
• Fantastic staff benefits including car lease, home electronics, cycle to work and childcare schemes, priority access to vaccinations, physiotherapy, counselling, among many more
• A great employee experience - we score very highly on our employee satisfaction metrics

Work for us and you will be making a real difference to the NHS and the thousands of people who use our services each year. Visit our website www.nhfm.co.uk for more information about who we are and benefits of working for us.

Job overview

We are looking for two friendly, flexible and conscientious people to join our small team of Domestic Assistants at Blyth Community Hospital. Details of the two posts are below. Please state in your supporting information which post you are most interested in or have availability for.

If you love cleaning and enjoy interacting with the public we would love to hear from you.

Post 1: is to work 16.5hrs per week and the role is currently based in an outpatients / admin area. Hours of work are usually Monday - Friday between 3.30pm-7pm or 4pm - 7pm although some flexibility / negotiation may be required to meet the needs of the service.

Post 2: is to work 20 hrs per week in an Outpatients area. Hours of work are Monday - Friday 3pm - 7pm although some flexibility / negotiation may be required to meet the needs of the service.

Other hours may also be available.

Main duties of the job

Quite simply, the NHS could not function without our Domestics! Every single service in the Trust relies on domestics to keep the place clean and safe for patients, visitors and staff. You’ll be part of a team striving to maintain the highest cleanliness standards in wards, departments, corridors and offices, and in doing so making a real difference to the NHS.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Examples of the tasks that we carry out are:

• Cleaning of floor areas as scheduled by means of vacuuming, mopping, buffing and spray cleaning.
• Undertake “deep cleans” in areas where infection is present.
• Removal of rubbish including domestic and clinical waste from designated areas to disposal point.
• Damp dusting of all surfaces, ledges, shelves, curtain rails.
• Cleaning of internal glass and external hand washing facilities.
• Maintain high standards of cleanliness in all work areas.
• Carry out any urgent spot cleaning and spillage when required.
• Other tasks as deemed appropriate by management.

Person specification

Qualifications & Experience

• Basic Food Hygiene and/or Level 1 Food Safety Certificate or must be achieved within 6 months of start date
• Basic Numerate & Literate Skills
• NVQ Level 1 or 2 or equivalent
• GCSE Maths and English (or equivalent)
• Previous Cleaning Experience
• Good Communication Skills

The successful applicant will be an employee of the subsidiary and not Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.

Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!

Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post.