Housekeeper

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust; Manchester; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester is seeking a Band 2 housekeeper to join Palatine Ward. You will lead the ward housekeeping team, ensuring a safe, clean, and welcoming environment for patients and relatives.

This role covers maintaining cleanliness on the ward and relatives' areas, stocking within budget, assisting with meals, and monitoring equipment maintenance and environmental measurements.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering high standards of cleanliness in healthcare settings.
• Ability to lead a housekeeping team on a ward.
• Experience managing stock and coordinating with kitchen/estates.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate the Palatine Ward housekeeping team.
• Keep ward and relatives' accommodation areas clean and tidy.
• Ensure ward is stocked within budget; assist with meals and ward kitchen.
• Monitor maintenance dates and document room temperatures and pressures.

Skills

Team leadership

Maintaining cleanliness

Communication skills

Empathetic nature

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, dynamic Band 2 housekeeper to join our existing team working on the Palatine Ward., The Housekeeper will be required to undertake a range of duties associated with leading the housekeeping team for Palatine Ward. Working with other band 2 housekeepers and domestic team they will ensure a high level of cleanliness is maintained, both on the ward and in the relative's accommodation areas.

They will have responsibility for ensuring that the ward is kept well stocked, but within relevant budget parameters, under direction of the Ward Senior Sister. This role includes helping with delivering meals and assisting in the ward kitchen to ensure food is delivered promptly.

This role will also oversee facilitating the maintenance of equipment and reporting estate requirements. This includes monitoring maintenance dates are adhered to and documenting measurement of room temperatures and room pressures.

You will need to be self-motivated, passionate and a team player to provide the high standard of care we deliver to our patients.

Treating patients with potentially curative diseases, alongside patients requiring end of life care, you will need excellent communication skills and an empathic nature.

Band 2 housekeeper will have the opportunity to work within a supportive environment. Previous experience in a healthcare setting is desirable. You will be required to undertake a range of duties associated with the upkeep of the unit's environment and maintain the highest standard of cleanliness.

Palatine Ward is a joint collaboration between the Haematology and Transplant Unit and the Teenage and Young Adult (TYA) service, providing treatment for haematological malignancies and TYAs with all types of cancer. We have a large Stem Cell Transplant Programme, performing over 120 transplants a year and successfully obtained JACIE re-accreditation in January 2025., The Christie is one of Europe's leading cancer centres, looking after more than 64,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 25% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country.

We are the largest radiotherapy provider in the NHS with one in 20 treatments delivered at The Christie. We have up to 15 linear accelerators operating across our network of sites. We operate the largest chemotherapy unit in the UK on our main site and treatments are also provided at 13 other networked sites, and in patients homes. And as a specialist tertiary surgical centre, we focus on rare cancers, complex procedures, and multidisciplinary approaches to cancer surgery, specialising in colorectal, peritoneal, gynaecological, urological and plastic surgery.

We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years. We have been named by the UK's National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), as one of the best hospitals providing opportunities for patients to participate in clinical research studies, with more than 800 studies open at any time, caring for over 3,000 patients.