FMA Domestic Cleaner

North West Borough Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Runcorn; On-site; GBP 12,000 - 17,000; Full time

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Facilities Management Assistant (FMA) – Domestic cleaner for the Brooker Centre. The role supports the Estates and Facilities Department with cleaning services across the division, maintaining national standards and PLACE requirements.

The successful candidate will work as part of a team, following a scheduled cleaning plan, completing records, and ensuring cleaning equipment and materials are available.

Qualifications

• GCSE/O'Levels or equivalent experience.
• Experience in a similar cleaning or catering role.
• Experience of working in the NHS.
• Knowledge of the National Standards of Cleanliness.
• Knowledge of COSHH and HACCP.
• Willingness to undertake health and safety training.

Responsibilities

• Provide a high-quality cleaning service across the division.
• Work to a cleaning schedule and complete relevant documentation.
• Ensure cleaning equipment and supplies are available.
• Maintain safety and cleanliness standards.

Skills

Team player

Interpersonal skills

Flexible

Independent worker

Manual tasks

Education

GCSE/O'Levels or experience

Foundation certificate in food hygiene level 2

Tools

Cleaning equipment

COSHH knowledge

HACCP knowledge

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 cleaner.

The post is suited to a motivated and experienced Domestic services worker to work at the Brooker Centre.

The successful candidate will provide a cleaning service around this Division ensuring National cleaning standards, PLACE requirements and CQC standards are met.

Main duties of the job

The provision of a high quality professional centered 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

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• GCSE/O'Levels or experience.

Desirable criteria

• Foundation certificate in food hygiene level 2.

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of working in a similar role.

Desirable criteria

• Training in Health & Safety and catering or cleaning tasks
• Experience of working in the NHS specifically Mental Health/ Community environment

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
• Demonstrate an understanding of the needs of people with mental health problems
• Willingness to undertake further training as required.

Values

Essential criteria

• Continuous improvement - committed to making improvements to our services for the benefit of all.
• Accountability - taking ownership to anticipate, develop and deliver high quality care
• Respect - how we treat others in an inclusive and supportive way.
• Enthusiasm - demonstrate our passion and pride for what we do and how we do it.
• Support - actively supporting others with compassion and courage.

Knowledge

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of the National Standards of Cleanliness
• Knowledge of COSHH and HACCP.
• Knowledge of using cleaning equipment

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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.

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