Housekeeping Assistant

Nuffield Health; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 25,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Free gym membership

Health assessments

Retail discounts

Pension options

Job summary

Nuffield Health Brentwood is seeking a Housekeeping Assistant at Vale Hospital in Wales. This part-time role is 22.5 hours per week, with a salary up to £25,038.00 pro rata depending on experience.

You will help maintain a clean, safe and welcoming environment for patients and staff using modern cleaning equipment and following our training programme. You will work closely with infection prevention, assist with waste removal and linen tasks, and contribute to a positive patient experience

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar role is desirable.
• Friendly, customer-service oriented.
• Able to work as part of a team and be flexible.

Responsibilities

• Organise workload and plan time with housekeeping leadership to minimise impact on patient experience.
• Provide friendly, clear communication with colleagues and patients.
• Be motivated, flexible and reliable.
• Ensure cleaning processes are followed and areas are clean, safe and welcoming.
• Collaborate with Infection Prevention to report incidents.

Job description

Housekeeping Assistant

Vale Hospital | Cleaning | Permanent | Part time

Up to £25,038.00 pro rata depending on experience

22.5 hours per week

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. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.

Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today

Applications will be considered as they are received, and interviews will be arranged accordingly. We reserve the right to close adverts early, for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications. Therefore, please apply early to ensure you are considered for the post.

It starts with you.