Housekeeper

NHS; Chichester; On-site; GBP 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Chichester is seeking a dedicated Housekeeper to maintain a clean and safe environment for patients. The role involves organizing cleaning tasks effectively while ensuring high standards of hygiene and guest satisfaction. Ideal candidates should have prior experience in a similar position and possess strong communication and organizational skills. Benefits include fitness rewards and discounts.

Benefits

Free gym membership

Health assessments

Retail discounts

Pension options

Qualifications

• Ideally experienced in a similar role.
• Ability to follow cleaning processes.
• Comfortable with physical tasks.

Responsibilities

• Organize work based on patient experience needs.
• Work in teams and interact with patients.
• Report incidents to the Infection prevention team.

Skills

Good communication skills

Customer service skills

Organizational skills

Flexibility

Job description

Housekeeper - Chichester Hospital | Cleaning | Permanent | Full Time | £24,531 per annum | 37.5 hours per week across 7 days a week between 6am-11pm

Keeping our Hospitals clean is a big priority for us. We are looking for a Housekeeper who will help us to create a clean, safe and pleasant environment for patients by cleaning and preparing a range of areas, utilising the latest equipment, products and supported by a first-class training programme.

Main duties of the job

• Care about our patients so that you can organise your work and plan your time with assistance from our Heads of Housekeeping to make sure cleaning never gets in the way of a patients' experience.
• Be friendly, with good communication and customer service skills. This will come in handy when you are working in a team with your colleagues and also when you are interacting with our patients.
• Be motivated, friendly and flexible.
• Ideally experienced in a similar role, you will be well organised and will ensure that cleaning processes are followed and that the location is clean, pleasant and safe for patients.
• Work closely with the Infection prevention team, reporting incidents to the relevant team members.
• Be comfortable with a physical role which involves pushing beds and lifting heavy equipment.

About us

Nuffield Health Chichester Hospital is a 30 bedded hospital within walking distance of the city centre with free onsite car parking. The hospital has two laminar flow operating theatres and two minor treatment rooms in the outpatient department. There is a small radiology department and CT/MRI services are provided in a mobile unit. Inpatient physiotherapy is provided within the hospital whilst our outpatients attend the fitness and wellbeing centre at Chichester Gate for their follow up physio and hydrotherapy treatments.

Benefits

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options.

Application information

Applications will be considered as they are received, and interviews will be arranged accordingly. We reserve the right to close adverts early, for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications. Therefore, please apply early to ensure you are considered for the post. You will need to comply with Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks if successful.

Person Specification

Qualifications: N.A.

Experience: Ideally experienced in a similar role, you will be well organised and will ensure that cleaning processes are followed and that the location is clean, pleasant and safe for patients.

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.