Domestic - Ormskirk Hospital

NHS; Ormskirk; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare trust is seeking highly motivated individuals to join their Domestic Team at the Ormskirk site. Responsibilities include performing cleaning tasks, maintaining hygiene standards, and ensuring a safe environment while following Trust procedures. Candidates should possess NVQ level 2 in Cleaning and Building Interiors and have customer care experience. This physically demanding role includes various shift patterns and requires teamwork. Join us to enhance patient care through high-quality cleaning services.

Benefits

Training and development opportunities

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Basic numeracy and literacy required.
• Understanding of cleaning and hygiene principles necessary.
• Experience of large scale or Health Care domestic work.

Responsibilities

• Providing a customer focused service for cleaning tasks.
• Isolation cleans/infection cleans as required.
• Cleaning of structures and patient equipment.

Skills

Understanding/Experience of Customer Care

Ability to use mechanical/electrical cleaning aids

Understanding/Experience of Team Working

Education

NVQ level 2 Cleaning and Building Interiors

Food Safety Awareness level 1

Job description

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Domestic - Ormskirk Hospital

Closing date is 02 January 2026

We are looking for highly motivated individuals to join our Domestic Team at the Ormskirk site.

Available Shift Patterns/Hours

• Monday to Friday - 3:30pm to 9:30pm (30 Hours)
• Monday to Friday - 4pm to 8pm (20 Hours)
• Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday - 7am to 3pm and 2pm to 7pm (17.5 hours)
• Saturday to Sunday - 2pm to 7pm (10 hours)

Main duties of the job

• Providing a customer focused service, to carry out general and specialised cleaning tasks in accordance with Trust procedures.
• To ensure the environment is maintained to a high standard and safe working practices are adhered to in all aspects of environmental/hygiene management.

About us

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.

We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.

Acute Care

Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.

Primary Care

Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.

Community Services

Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.

Specialist Regional Services

We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

Achievements

• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme

Job responsibilities

• Cleaning of structures, non-clinical patient equipment and components, manually or mechanically.
• Isolation cleans/infection cleans as required
• Set up and use of Hydrogen Peroxide fogging/UV machine cleaning of areas as required
• Carry ascom to respond to requests for infection cleans/Fogging/UV
• Maintenance / cleaning of all housekeeping equipment.
• Assist in the commissioning/decommissioning of area
• Curtain changes as appropriate, safe removal of dirty linen
• Keep a tidy work environment
• Follow Waste Disposal Policy to ensure safe removal of waste, ensuring correct segregation of waste.
• Ensuring that building security controls are adhered to and problems reported immediately.
• To cover other clinics or hospitals as necessary
• To work unsupervised as a Lone Worker and be aware of the issues.
• Use own judgement to overcome operational issues regarding day to day tasks.
• Use cleaning equipment such as buffers, scrubbers and buckets containing water and cleaning solutions, plus low and high cleaning work, requiring physical effort.
• Working in the vicinity of body fluids, physical aggression and exposure to hazards may occasionally occur.

Quality

• Ensure compliance with PAS 5748 and hygiene standards.
• Ensure all appropriate hygiene monitoring is carried out and recorded for every process.
• Ensure all Infection Prevention and control procedures are adhered, which includes maintaining a high standard of personal hygiene.
• Ensure compliance with all legal requirements of food safety.
• Maintain and improve all aspects of service
• Responsible for the flushing of water systems and maintaining accurate records in line with regulations pertaining to Legionella and Pseudomonas as instructed.
• Participate in staff involvement groups for all aspects of the Trust Quality Strategy 2016/21.
• Participate in trials of products and equipment as required

Communications

• Ensure good customer relations working with patients and all levels of staff, e.g. ward managers.
• To work effectively as part of a team
• Adopt an empathetic approach to patients and visitors, ensuring the areas are cleaned with minimal disruption to patients.
• Be aware of patients who may have challenging behaviours due to their medical condition, ensuring confidentiality and privacy and dignity are observed at all times.
• Store keeping including storage and stock rotation submitting orders in a timely manner
• Ensure economic use of all materials
• Ensure good practice to minimise waste

Staff/ Training

• Staff will be trained in all aspects of the housekeeping role over a minimum of 4 weeks or until deemed competent.
• Standard Operating Procedures to be followed.
• All trained staff are expected to display a flexible and supportive attitude to their work and colleagues, providing guidance and assistance to new or existing members of staff.
• Participate in the staff appraisal system and attend training in accordance with your personal development plan.
• Complete and maintain competency level.
• Staff to have an understanding of COSHH, and use of PPE, and adhere to health and safety regulations around the use of chemicals.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Basic numeracy and literacy
• NVQ level 2 Cleaning and Building Interiors
• Food Safety Awareness level 1
3>Knowledge and Experience
• Understanding of cleaning and hygiene principles
• Large scale or Health Care domestic work
• Basic computer skills

Skills

• Understanding/Experience of Customer Care
• Understanding/Experience of Team Working
• Ability to use mechanical/electrical cleaning aids
• Ability to instruct other less qualified staff
• Awareness of Buildings Security

Other

• Physically demanding role including use of machinery and other cleaning equipment such as buckets of water.
• Ability to carry out varied workloads with varying demands.
• Able to empathise with patients and staff
• Ability to work varied shift patterns/experience of working varied shift patterns.
• Experience of Lone working
• Experience of/ability to working at height using ladder

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.

Employer name

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust