Facilities Domestic Assistant - G6PB

Integrated Care System; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare service provider is seeking a Facilities Domestic Assistant to carry out cleaning duties at Birmingham Children's Hospital. Candidates should ideally have some experience, but training will be provided. The role includes working on a 4-week rotational roster, ensuring high standards of cleanliness within the facility. This is a vital role in supporting an environment for world-class care.

Qualifications

• Understanding of the role and associated work procedures.
• Experience of working in a similar role or discipline.
• Experience of working in the NHS.

Responsibilities

• Perform a full range of cleaning duties within the hospital.
• Safely store cleaning chemicals and equipment.
• Replenish disposables and consumables.

Skills

Basic knowledge of cleaning materials

Ability to kneel, crouch, twist, bend, or stretch

Communicate appropriately with others at work

Knowledge of COSHH

Education

Basic cleaning qualification - NVQs 1 or 2 or similar

Job description

Facilities Domestic Assistant - Evening Role

The Birmingham Children's Hospital Facilities Department have a few vacancies for a Domestic Facilities Assistant. The post holders will be required to undertake a full range of cleaning duties within our busy children's hospital. Experience is preferred but not essential as full training will be provided. The successful candidates will form part of our existing facilities' domestic team.

We have vacancies for the roles below:

You will be part of a 4-week rotational roster, working intermittent weekends averaging the contracted hours per week.

The job description details the required duties, and a personal specification is attached for information.

For further information please contact: Tina Small on 0121 333 8449/8466

Main duties of the job

General

? To work in any area/department within the hospital as assessed by the Domestic Supervisors.? To perform all duties as stated on the standard operating procedure or procedure sheet for the area of work assigned.? To perform isolation cleaning of infected cubicles upon request.? To operate mechanical/electrical domestic equipment and report any faults to the Facilities Supervisor. Always check electrical equipment before use.? To undertake kitchen duties as required and washing up of crockery/cutlery following patient's meals.? Responsible for the replenishing of disposable materials, i.e. handtowels, soap etc.? Responsible for the collection and removal of waste as per waste disposal policy.? To adhere to all Facilities Services policies and Codes of Practice.? To maintain the required standard of cleaning services following the correct procedure and frequencies.? Undertake a variety of cleaning duties in line with the ward/area/location cleaning schedules.? Operate mechanical cleaning equipment.? Replenish disposables and consumables.? Safely and correctly store cleaning chemicals and equipment.

About us

BWC Management Services Limited (also known as Vital Services) is a wholly-owned subsidiary company of Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust (BWC). The sole focus of Vital Services is the provision of estates and facilities services and, most importantly, the staff who provide these crucial services who are fundamental to the Trust being able to deliver world-class care. All Estates, Medical Engineering and Facilities staff are employed directly by Vital Services and although not NHS employees, are very much part of the BWC family, working together to be a world-leading team, providing world-leading care.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at BWC Management Services Limited.

When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).

Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Basic cleaning qualification - NVQs 1 or 2 or similar in a relevant discipline

Knowledge/Experience

• To have an understanding of the role and associated work procedures.
• Experience of working in a similar role or discipline.
• Experience of working in the NHS.

Skills

• Kneeling, crouching, twisting, bending, or stretching.
• Lifting weights/equipment with mechanical aids.
• Lifting weights/equipment without mechanical aids.
• Making repetitive movements.
• Pushing/pulling trolleys or similar.
• Basic knowledge of cleaning materials
• Basic manual handling qualification
• Experience of manual handling techniques
• Knowledge of COSHH
• Communicate appropriately with others at work
• Listen to and respond to simple information, ask questions to clarify understanding
• Respond appropriately to queries and complaints
• Take part in discussions on familiar topics
• Read and understand short piece of text
• Read and understand simple symbols, diagrams and charts
• Extract numerical information from lists, tables, diagrams and simple charts
• Tackle practical problems using simple calculation

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.