Housekeeping Assistant (Bank)

Nuffield Health; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 21,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Gym membership discount

Pension scheme

Holiday entitlement

Job summary

Nuffield Health Cambridge Hospital is seeking a Housekeeper to maintain a clean, safe, and pleasant environment for patients across our hospital areas. You will use the latest equipment and training to clean rooms, handle waste, and manage linen.

This ad-hoc bank role offers flexible hours and a competitive hourly rate, up to £13.10 per hour, depending on experience. Join our team and contribute to excellent patient care in a leading UK health charity.

Responsibilities

• Organise work and plan time with Heads of Housekeeping to ensure cleaning supports patient experience.
• Be friendly with good communication and customer service when interacting with patients.
• Motivated, friendly and flexible.
• Follow cleaning processes and keep locations clean, pleasant and safe for patients.
• Work with Infection prevention team and report incidents to the relevant staff.

Job description

Cambridge Hospital | Cleaning | Bank | Ad Hoc

Up to £13.10 per hour, depending on experience

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. This includes holiday in line with the working time directive, access to our pension scheme and discounted gym membership at £35.00 a month.

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.

Nuffield Health Cambridge Hospital

Our state‑of‑the‑art hospital, is central Cambridge's premium private hospital, boasting an Outstanding CQC score and offer a full range of medical and surgical specialties. With expertise in Cancer care and Cancer surgery, Orthopaedic surgery (including robotic surgery), Neurosurgery, Cardiology as well as specialist Paediatric services.

Backed by the latest diagnostic imaging facilities including wide bore MRI and CT scanning, we offer immediate assessment and expert diagnosis. Hospital facilities include 3 state of the art digital theatres, 32 beds, Surgical Day Case theatre/endoscopy suite, Surgical Day PODs, private consultation rooms, close monitoring units, Chemotherapy suite, on‑site registered pharmacy, Diagnostic scanning unit and a Pathology laboratory.

Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today