Housekeeper - Endoscopy Unit | Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Lancashire Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Preston; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Preston is looking for a non-clinical support team member in the Endoscopy unit. The role involves maintaining cleanliness, ensuring supplies are adequate, and supporting clinical staff. Ideal candidates will be reliable, flexible, and committed to high-quality patient care. This role offers valuable experience and professional development opportunities.

Qualifications

• Commitment to delivering high quality and safe care.
• Reliable, flexible, and motivated within a team.
• Ability to maintain a clean and safe clinical environment.

Responsibilities

• Responsibility for cleanliness and appropriate storage of all equipment.
• Provide support to clinical staff in maintaining a clean environment.
• Ensure both staff and patient kitchen area is clean, tidy, and stocked.
• Maintain medical supplies to pre-determined levels.
• Participate in audits relating to infection prevention and control.

Job description

About the Role

Can you imagine being a vital part of a team? All wards and ENDOSCOPY units are special for their own reasons, however we'd be lying if we said, we didn't think that the Endoscopy unit at RPH was an extra special unit to work on and you can be part of the team!

You will provide non-clinical support to the unit team carrying out tasks in order to facilitate an efficient patient service.

The Endoscopy unit is a JAG accredited unit – providing both diagnostic, therapeutic and emergency endoscopy procedures to both outpatients and inpatients.

You must have a commitment to delivering high quality, safe care. As a member of our friendly and professional team you will be reliable, flexible and motivated. You will be active in a positive working environment which allows staff to show initiative and thrive.

The essence of the role is to assist in maintaining a safe and clean working environment for patients and staff, and to ensure that stocks and supplies are kept at adequate levels within the clinical environment.

You will have autonomy in the ordering of stores, the reporting of faults and the initiation of works as required ensuring safe and smooth running of the Unit.

You will attend necessary meetings, feeding back relevant information, action within your own scope and share responsibilities with senior staff to enable them to delegate to the appropriate person.

We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.

Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.

You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.

You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.

Duties

• Responsibility for cleanliness and appropriate storage of all equipment and furnishings and keeping them in a good state of repair.
• To provide support to clinical staff in maintaining a clean environment, maintaining strict cleaning schedule records.
• To ensure that both the staff and patient kitchen area on the unit is kept clean, tidy and stocked and that both fridge temperatures are monitored daily.
• Supply support in non-clinical duties in relation to patient needs.
• To maintain medical supplies etc. to pre-determined levels and ensure all supplies are put away as necessary.
• To ensure that all equipment and supplies are within ‘use by’ date and used within date order.
• Participate in the completion of audits, particularly relating to infection prevention and control.
• Maintenance of clinical environment with control of infection control issues.
• Ensure a clean, safe, tidy and comfortable clinical environment.
• To ensure the safe storage of equipment and maintenance of unit stock levels.
• Assist with unit audits.

Please refer to attached documents for full Job Description.

This advert closes on Saturday 27 Dec 2025.