Housekeeper - Emergency Department Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

NHS North Norfolk CCG; Norwich; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dedicated team at a leading NHS trust, where you will play a vital role in supporting patient care within a busy emergency department. This position offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to high-quality healthcare, working alongside skilled professionals in a collaborative environment. As part of a forward-thinking organization, you will help maintain a clean and safe working environment, ensuring that patients receive the compassionate care they deserve. With flexible working hours and numerous benefits, this role is perfect for those looking to make a difference in the healthcare sector.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Fast Track Staff Physiotherapy Service

Multi Faith prayer room

Discounted gym memberships

Excellent pension scheme

Wagestream - access to pay as you earn

Free Park & Ride service

Free 24-hour counselling support

On-site Nursery

On-site cafes with staff discounts

Qualifications

• Basic literacy and numeracy skills are essential for this role.
• Experience in ensuring a clean and tidy working environment is required.

Responsibilities

• Participate in housekeeping duties and assist with patient care.
• Maintain equipment and ensure cleanliness in all areas.

Skills

Basic literacy and numeracy skills

Experience in maintaining cleanliness

Teamwork

Interpersonal skills

Understanding of equipment maintenance

Job description

The ED is the busiest in the East of England, seeing in excess of 120,000 new patients each year. We are in the process of developing new effective ways of working, and your role will be to support and work within the team to achieve high quality and compassionate care for our patients.

This is an excellent opportunity to play a role in the realisation of the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals’ vision of: ‘to provide every patient with care we want for those we love the most’. This role offers an exciting and challenging opportunity to work alongside a dedicated and highly skilled Team as we look forward to the future development of the ED.

Hours of work:

We are offering full / part time posts to include weekends, evening and night hours.

Description of post:

Under the direction and supervision of the Nursing Staff, the post holder will participate as an integral member of the departmental team, undertaking general housekeeping duties, including some direct patient contact, to help provide a quality service.

Requirements:

1. Basic literacy and numeracy skills
2. Experience of ensuring a clean and tidy working environment
3. Should be familiar with working as part of a team
4. Has an understanding/ willingness to learn about the ordering of stock and the maintenance of equipment at unit level
5. Must have good interpersonal skills

To support the delivery of a high quality, safe and compassionate healthcare service, all staff are expected to act as a role model to others in all aspects of their work and consistently demonstrate NNUH’s ‘PRIDE’ values of People focused, Respect, Dedication, Integrity and Excellence.

Join us at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and be part of a workforce of over 10,000 staff!

The NNUH is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, providing first-class acute care for around one million people, living in Norfolk and surrounding areas. We are a teaching and research hospital, at the forefront of innovation, home to state-of-the-art facilities, such as the Quadram Institute. We are pleased to work closely with the University of East Anglia, providing teaching opportunities for our staff and placement opportunities for their students. We attract some of the best and leading professionals from across the country and are proud that our workforce represents 94 countries from across the world.

We are a friendly, collaborative hospital, working with local services and home to N&N Hospitals Charity.

Benefits:

1. Flexible working hours
2. Fast Track Staff Physiotherapy Service
3. Multi Faith prayer room
4. Discounted gym memberships
5. Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
6. Wagestream - access up to 40% of your pay as you earn it
7. Free Park & Ride service direct to NNUH site
8. Free 24-hours confidential counselling support
9. On-site Nursery
10. On-site cafes offering staff discounts
11. Support in career development
12. Flexible staff bank
13. Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars, Cycle to Work scheme and home electronics

Essential Skills and Experience:

1. Establish and maintain a working rapport with nursing, medical, technical, ancillary and administration colleagues.
2. Help with cleaning and maintain tidiness in all areas.
3. Assist with the cleaning of all equipment and quality testing of specialised equipment.
4. To be responsible for the maintenance of equipment at ward level, reporting and ensuring accurate records are kept and equipment retrieved and returned as necessary.
5. To check linen allocation daily, report any problems to the Ward Coordinator and liaise with the linen room to rectify problems. Ensure dirty linen is bagged and disposed of correctly.
6. Check emergency equipment is available by all beds i.e. oxygen tubing, masks, suction.
7. Check oxygen and suction is working correctly and ensure portable oxygen cylinders are full.
8. Ensure adequate stocks of items are in areas as required, and assist with the ordering of stores and stationery supplies. Know how to use Powergate where applicable.

Please refer to the Job Description for the full specification of responsibilities and requirements for this post.

Please note that this advertised position, which is part of occupation code 6231 does not meet the UKVI eligibility requirements for a Skilled Worker Visa (this includes if you are already in a sponsored post and looking to change employer). The Trust would not be able to issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role.

This advert closes on Wednesday 4 Dec 2024.