Housekeeper (Bank)

Nuffield Health Careers; Exeter; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 21,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday pay

Pension scheme

Discounted gym membership £35/month

Job summary

Nuffield Health Exeter Hospital is seeking a dedicated Housekeeper to join our ad hoc bank shift team. You will help create a clean, safe and welcoming environment for patients by performing a range of cleaning tasks using modern equipment, and you will join a first‑class training programme.

You should be friendly, patient‑focussed and good at caring for others, with the ability to work with Heads of Housekeeping to plan your duties and support infection prevention activities across the site.

Qualifications

• Previous housekeeping experience preferred in hospital or clinical settings.
• Ability to maintain a clean, safe and pleasant environment.
• Good communication and teamwork with patients and staff.

Responsibilities

• Clean and prepare patient areas and common spaces.
• Collect and remove waste and manage linen.
• Follow cleaning processes and infection prevention guidelines.
• Support the infection prevention team and report incidents.

Skills

Customer service

Teamwork

Flexible

Organised

Job description

Housekeeper

Exeter Hospital | Cleaning | Bank | Ad Hoc

£12.84 per hour

Working on the bank means you are not contracted to a set number of hours per week but instead work on an ad-hoc basis to suit the needs of the business and your availability.

At Nuffield Health the UKs largest healthcare charity, everything we give our patients, members and customers would not be possible without you. Your passion, your warmth, your drive to make a difference. Whether it’s driving connected health, helping the nation, transforming experiences, or building the career you want – we give you the support to do it all. Join our journey. It starts with you.

Keeping our Hospitals clean is a big priority for us. We are looking for a Housekeeper who will help us to create a clean, safe and pleasant environment for patients by cleaning and preparing a range of areas, utilising the latest equipment, products and supported by a first‑class training programme. You will take pride in your work and undertake a variety of general responsibilities ranging from room cleaning, waste removal, linen collection and deep cleaning.

As a Housekeeper, you will:

• Care about our patients so that you can organise your work and plan your time with assistance from our Heads of Housekeeping to make sure cleaning never gets in the way of a patients’ experience
• Be friendly, with good communication and customer service skills. This will come in handy when you are working in a team with your colleagues and also when you are interacting with our patients
• Motivated, friendly and flexible
• Ideally experienced in a similar role, you will be well organised and will ensure that cleaning processes are followed and that the location is clean, pleasant and safe for patients
• Work closely with the Infection prevention team, reporting incidents to the relevant team members

Helping you feel good.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. From Holiday in line with the Working Time Directive, Access to our Pension Scheme and discounted gym membership at £35.00 a month.

Nuffield Health Exeter Hospital

The Exeter Nuffield hospital is based next to the RD&E hospital in Wonford, Exeter. The hospital has 2 theatres, as well as a hybrid cardiac catheter laboratory/theatre and an Endoscopy suite. There are two ward areas: an inpatient area with 21 beds and a day‑case ward with 12 beds. We also have a busy outpatient department, pharmacy, physiotherapy, and radiology department including an MRI scanner. We specialise in elective orthopaedic and spinal surgery, cardiology including invasive procedures, general surgery, plastics and cosmetic surgery, ENT, and gynaecology. The Hospital has a MAKO robot that undertakes some of the joint replacement surgery which we have become well known for in this field of surgery.

It starts with you.