Housekeeper

Nuffield Health; Chichester; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 29,000; Part time

Job summary

A healthcare provider is seeking a dedicated Housekeeper for their Chichester hospital. The role involves maintaining a clean and pleasant environment for patients, requiring good communication and customer service skills. The ideal candidate will be flexible, motivated, and ideally have experience in a similar role. This position offers competitive pay with a range of benefits including free gym membership and more.

Benefits

Free gym membership

Health assessments

Retail discounts

Pension options

Qualifications

• Must be available to work both Saturdays and Sundays.
• Comfortable with a physical role involving pushing beds and lifting heavy equipment.
• Ability to follow cleaning processes.

Responsibilities

• Organize work to ensure cleaning does not interfere with patients' experience.
• Work with the Infection prevention team and report incidents.
• Clean and maintain a variety of areas to create a pleasant environment.

Skills

Good communication skills

Customer service skills

Motivated and flexible

Experience in a similar role

Organizational skills

Job description

Housekeeper

Chichester Hospital | Cleaning | Permanent

£24,531 per annum, pro rata

18 hours per week, scheduled across 7 days between 6:00 am and 11:00 pm
Includes weekend work
The successful candidate must be available to work both Saturdays and Sundays as part of the rota

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. You will take pride in your work and undertake a variety of general responsibilities ranging from room cleaning, waste removal, linen collection and deep cleaning.

As a Housekeeper, you will:

• 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.

• 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

Helping you feel good.

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

Nuffield Health Chichester Hospital

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.

Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today.

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.

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