Housekeeper

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust; Rushden; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Rushden is seeking a Housekeeper to support the nursing team by ensuring a clean and welcoming ward environment. The role involves assisting in patient care tasks, managing food services, and maintaining equipment cleanliness. Candidates must possess strong communication skills, knowledge of food handling, and auditing experience. This position offers a chance to work in a collaborative environment focused on individualised patient care.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills are essential for interacting with patients and staff.
• Prior experience with food handling and auditing is necessary.
• Understanding of specialist diets is important for patient care.

Responsibilities

• Support the nursing and domestic staff for efficient unit operation.
• Maintain cleanliness and safety in the ward.
• Complete patient menus and serve food to patients.
• Assist with packing for patient discharge and report faults.
• Conduct audits and manage laundry supplies.

Skills

Communication Skills

Knowledge of Food handling

Previous experience of Auditing

Knowledge of specialist diets

Job description

Go back Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Housekeeper

The closing date is 19 December 2025

Please come and join our highly skilled, motivated and innovative team including medics, nurses, physiotherapists and occupational therapists all ward based to ensure that our patients receive the best possible individualised care all in single rooms.

Spinneyfields in Rushden which is a 51 bedded inpatient physical health unit.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be working in an integrated multi professional inpatient team and provide support under the supervision of a Registered Nurse. To provide support to both the nursing, domestic and clerical staff to help in the smooth and efficient running of the unit. To ensure that the ward is clean, safe and welcoming to all patients, staff and visitors by assisting with housekeeping duties associated with the unit. This also includes carrying out audits within the ward as appropriate.

Reporting to the Senior Nurse on shift or the Ward Sister and ultimately to the Ward Matron for the ward enabling them to deliver services effectively and efficiently to patients and service users.

Examples of specific jobs that the post holder will undertake include completing patient menus and serving food for patients, liaising between the ward staff and hotel services, cleaning of equipment and patient areas, assisting patients with packing belonging on discharge, reporting faulty equipment, completing audits and ordering laundry supplies, and maintaining tidy stores areas.

About us

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.

Job responsibilities

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You Section of the document.

Person Specification

Communication Skills

• Communication Skills
• Knowledge of Food handling
• Previous experience of Auditing
• Knowledge of specialist diets

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust