Housekeeper

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust; Manchester; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a flexible and caring individual to join their dedicated team in the Endoscopy Unit. This role involves providing high-quality care to patients, ensuring a well-prepared environment, and assisting nursing staff to enhance service efficiency. The position offers a rewarding opportunity to work with a diverse patient group while contributing to continuous quality improvement. Join a major NHS Trust that champions collaborative working and supports your career development in a digitally enabled organization focused on innovation and sustainability.

Qualifications

• Educated to GCSE level or equivalent with willingness for professional development.
• Experience in acute healthcare and hospitality settings is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support nursing staff to deliver timely and efficient service in Endoscopy.
• Ensure medical equipment is clean and well maintained.

Skills

Good communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Organisational skills

Empathy

Interest in patient care

Education

GCSE level or equivalent

Tools

Basic computer skills

Job description

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Manchester

GBP 10,000 - 40,000

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Main area: Endoscopy Unit
Grade Band: 2
Contract: Permanent
Job ref: 349-MRI-6854757
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Unit is open 7 days per week: 8-7pm, Housekeeper hours 8-4pm Monday to Friday.)

Job overview

We are seeking a flexible and caring individual to join our dedicated team on The Endoscopy Unit at Trafford General Hospital and help provide high quality care to our patients.

The Endoscopy Unit is open 7 days a week and delivers diagnostic procedures to patients.

You will take responsibility for ensuring that the patient environment is fully prepared for the patient to receive care. This requires a flexible, calm approach and the ability to follow direction when needed. You will have the chance to work with a diverse patient group, meaning that the role can be very rewarding.

Included within your duties is to check and put away stock deliveries, maintaining stock rotation and checking of expiry dates, and collect patient supplies as and when needed.

You will have:

• Good communication and interpersonal and organisational skills
• A genuine interest in patient care
• A friendly, open, empathetic and compassionate attitude

You will be:

• Able to relate well with patients/clients/relatives/visitors/colleagues, the multi-disciplinary team and the wider trust staff

Main duties of the job

To provide support to trained nursing staff in order to deliver a more timely and efficient service as part of the pathway for patients in Endoscopy. The post holder will undertake duties that will allow more effective use of nursing time and will also contribute to the efficient running of the service.

You will take responsibility for ensuring that all medical equipment is clean and well maintained and liaise with the domestic supervisors and staff to ensure cleaning is of a high standard. Waiting areas are to be well maintained for patient and visitor use. You will take responsibility for ensuring the endoscopy unit has adequate equipment and stock and will undertake reporting any estates work.

In addition, you will be responsible for assisting the team in continuous quality improvement work by undertaking audits on the Department. The role also entails keeping ward information boards up to date, and friends & family feedback is maintained.

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn and is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at [e-mail].

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

Person specification

Qualifications

• Educated to GCSE level or equivalent
• Willingness to undertake professional development

Knowledge and Experience

• Experience of working in an acute healthcare setting
• Basic computer skills
• Experience of working within a hospitality setting
• Experience of ordering and stock control

Employer certification / accreditation badges

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.