Housekeeper

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool City Region; On-site; GBP 19,000 - 23,000; Full time

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust seeks a Housekeeper for the Mossley Hill ward. You will support in ensuring a clean, safe environment and assist with the nutritional needs of service users, under supervision of the nursing team.

The role includes welcoming visitors, maintaining a therapeutic environment, and performing general housekeeping and admin duties within a busy inpatient setting. DBS check is required.

Qualifications

• DBS check is required.
• Experience in hospital housekeeping preferred.

Responsibilities

• Meet nutritional needs of the service users.
• Maintain a clean and safe environment for patients and staff.
• General housekeeping and admin duties on the ward.

Job description

We are seeking an individual to join our inpatient mental health service in our newly opened hospital at Mossley Hill - Roscoe Ward, 20 bedded male acute ward.

As a Housekeeper under the supervision of the Registered Nurse and Nursing team you will support in ensuring a clean and safe environment where the individual needs of our service users are met in a timely and effective manner utilising best practice.

Working as part of the team, you will help service users with their nutritional needs, assist in maintaining a clean and therapeutic environment, support and promote independent personal care as well as welcoming and greeting visitors to the ward.

You will enjoy working as part of a highly skilled and motivated team within a dynamic and busy environment to deliver excellent care.

This post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check.

The main duties of the role involve

• Meeting Nutritional Needs of the service users
• Maintaining a clean and safe Environment
• General housekeeping and admin duties

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

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Hayley Wilkinson Job title: Modern Matron Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 0151 250 5027