Housekeeper

Nuffield Health, Exeter Hospital; Exeter; On-site; GBP 22,534 - 27,541; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free gym membership

Health assessments

Retail discounts

Pension options

Job summary

Nuffield Health, Exeter Hospital is seeking a dedicated Housekeeper to help maintain a clean and safe environment for patients. Your role will involve cleaning, waste removal, and following procedures to ensure patient comfort.

We offer a supportive work environment with benefits like free gym membership and a range of wellness rewards. Join us in making a difference in patient care!

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar role preferred.
• Ability to follow cleaning processes and procedures.
• Work well in a team environment.

Responsibilities

• Organize work to ensure cleaning doesn't affect patient experience.
• Maintain a clean, pleasant, and safe environment for patients.
• Report incidents to the Infection Prevention team.

Skills

Good communication skills

Customer service skills

Organization skills

Flexibility

Job description

27 hrs per week

At Nuffield Health the UKs largest healthcare charity, everything we give our patients, members and customers would not be possible without you. Your passion, your warmth, your drive to make a difference. Whether it’s driving connected health, helping the nation, transforming experiences, or building the career you want – we give you the support to do it all. Join our journey. It starts with you.

Housekeeper

Exeter Hospital | Housekeeping | Permanent contract

£25,038 pro rata

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.

Responsibilities

• Care about our patients so that you can organise your work and plan your time with assistance from our Heads of Housekeeping to ensure 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.

Benefits

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 wellness 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.

Location

The Exeter Nuffield Hospital is based next to the RD&E hospital in Wonford, Exeter. Exeter is a vibrant cathedral city in the heart of the beautiful county of Devon, situated on the River Exe and only 10 miles from the coast. The hospital has 2 theatres, as well as a hybrid cardiac catheter laboratory/theatre and an Endoscopy suite. There are two ward areas: an inpatient area with 21 beds and a day‑case ward with 12 beds. We also have an on‑site Pathology department as well as a busy outpatient department, health assessment service, pharmacy, physiotherapy, and radiology department including an MRI scanner.