Housekeeper - Paediatric Outpatients

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Job summary

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust seeks a proactive individual for the Child Health Team in the outpatient department. The role involves ensuring a clean, safe environment and coordinating care services for babies and parents. Ideal candidates will possess at least GCSE education and experience in a health-related role. This role emphasizes teamwork, adaptability, and attention to detail to maintain high standards of care.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements available

Qualifications

• GCSE in core subjects needed.
• NVQ in health or administration required.
• Must have basic computer skills like email and word processing.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a clean and safe environment in the outpatient department.
• Assist with stock management and monitor equipment conditions.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to enhance service delivery.

Skills

General Computer Skills

Team Work

Adaptability

Education

GCSE- grade C or above

NVQ level 2 or equivalent in health related topic

Job description

Employer Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Chesterfield Royal Hospital Town Chesterfield Salary £24,169 pro rata per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 02/07/2025 23:59

NHS AfC: Band 2

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Child Health Team within the Outpatients Department in the Den. The post holders will work as an integral part of the outpatients department.He/she will be responsible for the co-ordination of all babies, child and parent facilities and services in the outpatient’s area and ensuring a clean, safe and comfortable environment.

The postholder will be required to work closely with contractors and support service departments. He/she will monitor quality standards, report deficiencies, and take appropriate action.

Main duties of the job

Ensure the department environment is kept clean to a predetermined level and in accordance with the Trust’s policies and procedures in order to achieve enhanced environmental standards.

Identify and action additional cleaning requirements.

Assist when needed in undertaking core domestic duties

Assist with the preparation of rooms for cleaning

Abide by infection prevention and control policies

To order and maintain adequate stock levels ensuring adequate supplies.

To ensure stock rooms are kept tidy and stock is easily accessible.

Assist with the collection of patient experience feedback.

Monitor the condition of equipment and report faults and repairs.

Remove items for repair if required documenting the action.

To maintain patient confidentiality at all times.

To actively participate in the staff appraisal process.

To be familiar with relevant Operational, Personnel, Health and Safety Policies and procedures, including Fire, COSHH, No Smoking and Alcohol.

To attend mandatory updates as required.

Working for our organisation

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a well performing Foundation Trust serving a population of around 441,000 across the Bolsover, Chesterfield, Derbyshire Dales, North Amber Valley, High Peak and North East Derbyshire districts. With a workforce of around 3,800 staff and good financial control, currently operating with a positive financial surplus and was recently rated “Good” by the CQC .

We are committed to working with our partners in health and social care to deliver long term financial sustainability and resilience in our performance to ensure we provide high quality services and excellent patient care.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the job description and person specification for the full qualifications, skills and experience required for this post.

Person specification

Qualifications

• GCSE- grade C or above
• General Computer Skills- email, internet, excel, word processing
• NVQ level 2 or equivalent in either administration or health related topic

Experience

• Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Experience in a Health-Related Job or previous office experience

Personal

• Professional appearance and work approach
• Adaptable to meet service needs
• Team Member

Values

• Proud to Care

Flexible Working

If you're looking for flexible or predictable working arrangements, please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate this. If it works for our service and patients, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is committed to ensuring the safety of all our staff and patients therefore encourages and supports staff to be vaccinated against COVID19 as this remains the best line of defence against the virus.

UK Points-based immigration system

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the United Kingdom (UK) are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Please note that from 1 January 2021, to work in the UK all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply can self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship here Work in the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) .

It is vital that you provide full and accurate details of your current immigration status on the application form. Overseas applicants applying for entry clearance into the UK must present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided in continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

If you are applying for a vacancy in health or adult social care, you may be eligible to apply for the Health and Care Worker visa instead, which is cheaper to apply for and you do not need to pay the annual immigration health surcharge.

Communications

Communications throughout the application process will be via e-mail therefore please check your e-mail account and Trac account regularly. References are also requested by email (where possible). Therefore to speed up the recruitment process please provide an email address for all referees when completing your application form.

If you require any support in completing the application form, please do not hesitate to contact the HR Support Services team on 01246 513177 and we will be happy to provide assistance.

Please see the attached documents and links in relation to working for Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. In particular, the general conditions of employment and benefits of working for the trust.

This role is part of the integrated health and social care community across Derbyshire, where there are many opportunities to work across different locations and providers developing new and different skills. Whilst this role is initially based in Chesterfield there may be future opportunities to be based at different locations within the health and social care community which we may talk to you about in the future.

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