Housekeeper

NHS; Cirencester; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Housekeeper to join their team at Cirencester Hospital. The role involves maintaining hygiene standards, cleaning, and delivering patient meals, ensuring a safe and welcoming environment for patients and staff. Ideal candidates will have previous experience in similar settings and knowledge of food safety and cleaning procedures. Support and training will be provided in this essential role that contributes to the hospital's day-to-day operations.

Qualifications

• Previous experience within a similar working environment.
• Previous experience of working within the NHS.
• Basic understanding of cleaning and catering procedures.
• Knowledge and understanding of food hygiene and safety.
• Understanding of safe manual handling techniques.

Responsibilities

• Maintains a high standard of hygiene and cleanliness.
• Prepares and presents patient meals and beverages for inpatient areas.

Skills

Cleaning procedures

Catering procedures

Food hygiene

Manual handling

COSHH knowledge

Job description

Housekeeper

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 31 December 2025

Would you like to join our existing small and friendly housekeeping team at Cirencester Hospital?

We are looking for someone to cover cleaning and catering across the hospital to ensure a welcoming, clean, and safe environment for our patients, their families and the wider team working on site.

The housekeeping role is an essential part of the day to day running of the hospital and ensures our patients and their families experience a high quality service.

You’ll be part of a great team of housekeepers, supported by Supervisors and our Facilities Managers on site.

Main duties of the job

We pride ourselves on providing a clean environment for our patients and colleagues; this role involves carrying out the daily cleaning schedule as well as additional cleaning duties as required.

You will work alongside patients, colleagues and other visitors to our site; being professional and ensuring that you are working within the Trust Values.

This role also involves delivering patient meals and drinks on our inpatient wards.

A full induction and training as well as ongoing in‑house supervision will be provided.

About us

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5,000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top‑quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.

Job responsibilities

Maintains a high standard of hygiene and cleanliness, as defined within the National Specification of Cleanliness.

Prepares and presents patient meals and beverages in inpatient areas in accordance with Food Hygiene procedures.

Person Specification

Experience

• Previous experience within a similar working environment
• Previous experience of working within the NHS

Knowledge

• Basic understanding of cleaning and catering procedures
• Knowledge and understanding of the importance of food hygiene and safety
• Understanding of safe manual handling techniques and procedures
• Knowledge and understanding of COSHH

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.

Employer name

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trustp>