Housekeeper (Bank)

Nuffield Health Guildford Hospital; Exeter; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 21,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday entitlement

Pension scheme

Discounted gym

Job summary

Nuffield Health Exeter Hospital is seeking a proactive Housekeeper to provide general cleaning across patient areas, linen handling, and waste removal on an ad hoc bank basis.

You will work with Heads of Housekeeping to maintain a clean, safe environment that supports patient care, with holiday entitlement, pension, and affordable gym membership as part of our benefits.

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar housekeeping role preferred.
• Good communication and customer service skills.
• Well organized and able to follow cleaning processes.

Responsibilities

• Clean patient rooms and common areas to high standards.
• Handle waste removal and linen collection.
• Collaborate with Heads of Housekeeping to plan tasks.

Skills

Customer service

Communication

Teamwork

Job description

Housekeeper – Exeter Hospital

Housekeeper | 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.

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.

• 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.

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.

• Holiday in line with the Working Time Directive
• Access to our Pension Scheme
• Discounted gym membership at £35.00 a month

Location & Facilities

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.

About Nuffield Health

Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today. Nuffield Health, is the UK’s largest healthcare charity. For over 60 years, we’ve been working to make the UK fitter, healthier, happier and stronger. All for the public benefit. We do this through our family of 31 award-winning hospitals, 113 fitness and wellbeing centres, healthcare clinics and over a 100 workplace wellbeing services. As a charity, we reinvest all our income into our services, into pioneering improvements in care, and most importantly into our social impact programmes, which are designed to support people who would not normally be able to afford or access our services. Its all part of our mission to give everyone the care they need and to build a healthier nation.