Housekeeper

Lewisham and Greenwich; Royal Borough of Greenwich; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Part time

Job summary

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is recruiting a part-time house keeper to support four surgical wards at Queen Elizabeth Hospital. The role involves delivering essential cleaning, catering and supply support to the clinical team, and ensuring equipment and rooms are maintained in line with Trust policies.

The post holder will work as part of the divisional team, contribute to a positive patient experience, and participate in standard Trust processes.

Qualifications

• Possess a reasonable standard of oral and written English.
• Possess basic numeracy skills.
• Ability to prioritise workload.
• Previous experience in a caring environment or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Cleaning: ensure general and specialist equipment is cleaned per manufacturer instructions and Trust policy.
• Catering: ensure patient meals are ordered and delivered, with attention to dietary requirements.
• Maintaining supplies: assist in coordinating the ordering, delivery and storage of departmental supplies to ensure adequate availability.

Skills

Oral and written English

Numeracy

Prioritisation

Caring/compassionate experience

Job description

Step into a place where exceptional care, patients, culture, and careers come together.

Explore our current vacancies and take your first step toward making a real difference.

Join us. Make a difference. Be part of Team LGT.

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.

Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.

We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.

Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.

Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.

LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.

We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the IC in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.

Job overview

Please note that the following are essential requirements for this post:

• A valid Care Certificate issued by an NHS provider organisation (Care Certificates issued by private organisations are not accepted).
• An NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care qualification obtained from a UK college.

Applicants should ensure that they clearly demonstrate how they meet these requirements within their application.

Please note that we are unable to offer sponsorship or a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) for this post.

We have an exciting opportunity for a part time house keeper to work across the four surgical wards at Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

The post holder will work as an integral part of the divisional team. Responsible for ensuring the delivery of a range of activities to support the clinical team in delivering care,ensuring all equipment and supplies are maintained.

Main duties of the job

Cleaning: To ensure that all general and specialist equipment e.g. monitors, drip stands, medical devices are cleaned in accordance with manufacturer’s instructions and trust policy. Ensure that all medical equipment sent for repair is decontaminated in accordance with Trust policy. To ensure that the department is clean & tidy at all times. Identify problems with departmental cleanliness, take remedial action and report to Unit Sister. Damp dust equipment on a daily basis. To maintain staff areas

Catering: In conjunction with the nursing team, ensure patient meals are ordered and delivered, adhering to special dietary requirements. Co-ordinate extra meal requirements that may arise

Maintaining Supplies: Assist in coordinating the ordering, delivery and storage of all departmental supplies. To ensure that the Unit has adequate supplies throughout the 24 hour period and any shortfalls are rectified.

Working for our organisation

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

• Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
• Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
• Improving the experience of staff with disability
• Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
• Making equalities mainstream

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Cleaning: To ensure that all general and specialist equipment e.g. monitors, drip stands, medical devices are cleaned in accordance with manufacturer’s instructions and trust policy. Ensure that all medical equipment sent for repair is decontaminated in accordance with Trust policy. To ensure that the department is clean & tidy at all times. Identify problems with departmental cleanliness, take remedial action and report to Unit Sister. Damp dust equipment on a daily basis. To maintain staff areas

Catering: In conjunction with the nursing team, ensure patient meals are ordered and delivered, adhering to special dietary requirements. Co-ordinate extra meal requirements that may arise

Maintaining supplies: Assist in coordinating the ordering, delivery and storage of all departmental supplies. To ensure that the Unit has adequate supplies throughout the 24 hour period and any shortfalls are rectified.

Person specification

Educational Qualifications

• Possess a reasonable standard of oral and written English
• Possess basic numeracy skills

Experience

• Ability to prioritise workload
• Previous experience in a caring environment or equivalent

Knowledge

• Have good communication skills – both written and oral
• Possess the skills needed to allow effective team working
• Ability to work on own initiative
• Time management

Aptitudes, personal characteristics

• Conscientious, reliable, hard working
• Supportive or others
• Calm in pressurised and stressful situations
• Ability to accept constructive criticism

others

• Cheerful / friendly approach , Flexible

We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.

As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women’s staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.

Please note: Information provided during recruitment and pre‑employment checks must be accurate. Misrepresentation may be investigated as fraud and could lead to withdrawal from the process, professional sanctions, or criminal action.

Please note: that sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route is subject to Trust allocation and UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) approval.

Use of AI in recruitment: We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support the initial review of applications against the essential criteria for this role. Where AI is used, it will support rather than replace human decision-making, and applications will remain subject to appropriate human review.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

To ensure fairness and manageable shortlisting processes, some vacancies may have an application cap. This means the vacancy will close once a set number of applications have been received even if this happens before the advertised closing date.

We recommend applying as early as possible to avoid missing out. All applications received before the cap is reached will be considered equally and assessed against the person specification.