Facilities Management Assistant- Domestic/ Cleaner

North West Borough Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Sefton; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Facilities Management Assistant (FMA) Domestic to join the Estates and Facilities Department. The role involves cleaning duties across Maghull Health Park, including Ashworth High Secure Hospital, Rowan View Medium Secure and Aspen Wood Low Secure, with a focus on high standards and compliance.

The post requires NHS experience or training in cleaning or catering, and knowledge of NHS cleanliness standards.

Qualifications

• NHS experience and training in safety, health and catering or cleaning tasks.
• Experience of working in a similar role (cleaning or catering).
• Experience of working in the NHS.
• Knowledge of the National Standards of Cleanliness and NHS Colour Coding.
• Experience of dealing with people.

Responsibilities

• Provide a high quality professional centred cleaning/ housekeeping service.
• Work to a high standard to meet national cleaning standards.
• Cover cleaning across Maghull Health Park with flexible hours.
• Maintain cleaning schedule and complete relevant documentation.
• Ensure cleaning equipment and agents are available.

Skills

Team player

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Flexible

Manual tasks

Education

CIEH Foundation Certificate in Food Hygiene

Job description

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.

We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.

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Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Estates and Facilities Department for an enthusiastic team member for a Facilities Management Assistant (FMA) Domestic.

The post is suited to a motivated and experienced Domestic services worker to work across Maghull Health Park, which includes Ashworth High Secure Hospital , Rowan View Medium Secure & Aspen Wood Low Secure.

The postholder(s) will provide a cleaning/ house keeping service around Secure Division ensuring National cleaning standards, PLACE requirements and CQC standards are met.

Main duties of the job

The provision of a high quality professional centred service ensuring all policies and procedures and standards are adhered to.

To work to a high standard to meet national Standards

Work as part of a team working flexible hours to deliver cleaning cover throughout the year.

Work to an agreed cleaning schedule and complete relevant documentation.

Responsible for ensuring all cleaning equipment and cleaning agents are available.

Working for our organisation

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

NHS experience and training in safety, health and catering or cleaning tasks.

Experience of working in a similar role (cleaning or catering).

Experience of working in the NHS.

Knowledge of the National Standards of Cleanliness and NHS Colour Coding.

Experience of dealing with people.

Person specification

Skills

Essential criteria

• Able to function as a member of a team and support the management objectives of the department and Trust.
• Able to deal with requests from service users, managers and staff in a friendly and helpful way.
• Flexible.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills
• Able to work both independently and as part of a team
• Able to carry out manual tasks

Desirable criteria

• Able to maintain accurate records

Experience

Essential criteria

• NHS experience and training in safety, health and catering or cleaning tasks.
• Experience of working in a similar role (cleaning or catering).
• Experience of working in the NHS.
• Experience of dealing with people.

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of the National Standards of Cleanliness and NHS Colour Coding.
• Experience of working in a multi-skilled environment

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• CIEH Foundation Certificate in Food Hygiene, or equivalent

Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust's guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.