Facilities Assistant (Domestic) NTH Solutions

North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust; Hartlepool; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dedicated team as a Domestic Facilities Assistant, where your role is vital in maintaining a clean and safe environment for patients and staff. This position offers the chance to contribute to high-quality care within a supportive and inclusive workplace. You will be responsible for various cleaning tasks, ensuring adherence to health and safety standards, and collaborating with a dynamic team. If you are adaptable, committed, and passionate about making a difference in healthcare, this role is perfect for you. Your efforts will directly impact the well-being of patients and the overall hospital environment.

Benefits

Health and well-being initiatives

Opportunities for personal development

Supportive workplace environment

Qualifications

• Ability to perform cleaning duties to high standards.
• Knowledge of health and safety practices in a healthcare environment.

Responsibilities

• Conduct domestic cleaning duties as per team leader guidance.
• Organize and adapt cleaning tasks based on departmental needs.
• Ensure compliance with COSHH and waste management policies.

Skills

Cleaning

Health and Safety Compliance

Teamwork

Flexibility

Waste Management

Education

No formal education required

Tools

Cleaning Equipment

Job description

Facilities Assistant (Domestic)

As a Domestic Facilities Assistant, your role is integral in keeping our hospitals clean and safe for our patients, visitors, and staff. The NHS couldn’t function without you.

You will be part of a dynamic and adaptable team whose main focus is to clean to the highest standards and frequencies possible to maintain a clean, pleasant, and safe environment, reducing the risk and spread of infection.

Responsibilities:

1. Clean and conduct domestic duties as guided by your team leaders.
2. Organise day-to-day cleaning duties adapting to best suit the needs of the ward/department. This will include cleaning of beds, floors, toilets, sinks, mopping, damp dusting, cleaning of internal glass, walls, vacuuming, scrubbing (manual and machine), steam cleaning, and buffing.
3. Perform ‘deep’ and ‘specialised’ cleans in accordance with training and method statements provided and be involved in full ward decants when requested.
4. Change bay curtains, bed drapes, and cleaning of blinds.
5. Work as part of the ward or department team (where appropriate) to respond to requests from the ward matron or department manager in relation to work priorities, local protocols, and procedures.
6. Be flexible and adapt to unforeseen requests and tasks as appropriate to the environment.
7. Work in accordance with and follow COSHH (Control of Substances Hazardous to Health) and health and safety manual handling policies.
8. Maintenance/cleaning of all cleaning equipment.
9. Ensure safe segregation and removal of waste in accordance with waste management guidelines and policies.

NTH Solutions is a wholly owned subsidiary company of North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust, established in April 2018 to provide estates, facilities, and support services.

Our main priority is, and always will be, to provide safe and high-quality care to our patients every day; the kind of care we would want for ourselves and our loved ones. We want our organisation to be the best place to work with the right staff, in the right roles, at the right time, to ensure we deliver exceptional patient care and experience.

We will support staff through providing an inclusive and supportive workplace with health and well-being initiatives, staff benefits, and opportunities for personal and professional development.

At NTH Solutions, we work as a team, we support each other, learn from one another, and have our patients at the heart of everything we do.

This advert closes on Wednesday 18 Dec 2024.