Housekeeping Assistant - UHD Residences | University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust

Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Bournemouth; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Bournemouth seeks a housekeeping assistant to ensure high standards of cleanliness in its residential facilities. You will be responsible for supporting accommodation cleaning schedules, bed making, and assisting with laundry tasks. This role provides an opportunity to work in a friendly and inclusive environment with additional benefits like enhanced annual leave and a generous pension scheme.

Benefits

Enhanced annual leave

Generous NHS pension scheme

NHS discounts at thousands of retailers

Friendly, inclusive team

Responsibilities

• Provide a high standard of domestic service across residential properties.
• Carry out duties in accommodation cleaning schedules.
• Assist in bed making and laundering of bed linen.

Job description

Overview

Do you have a can-do attitude and take pride in your work? We’re looking for a housekeeping assistant to join #TeamUHD to help maintain our residences at Bournemouth Hospital and Poole Hospital.

Responsibilities

• You’ll be organised, providing a high standard of domestic service across site residential properties.
• You’ll carry out duties set out in our accommodation cleaning schedules or as requested by the site management team.
• Tasks will include bed making and assisting in the laundering of bed linen and other items as and when required.

What we can offer you

• Enhanced annual leave (pro-rata for part-time)
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• NHS discounts at thousands of retailers
• Working with a friendly, inclusive team

For a more detailed overview of the role and person specification please see the supporting documents.

To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.

Additional information

Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues. UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme. This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have about this at interview.

Please note if the role or service is relocated as part of a planned move, employees will not be eligible for excess mileage reimbursement. Travel from the postholder's home to the new work base will be considered a normal commute. Any other changes not related to this relocation will be managed according to the relevant Trust or National terms and conditions.

This post is part of the Operational Estates service that UHD may transfer to an NHS ‘wholly owned subsidiary’; the proposed date of transfer is October 2025. This is an exciting opportunity to join a developing, expanding, organisation with a strong commitment to NHS values and putting patients first. The NHS wholly owned subsidiary will continue to offer NHS AFC T&Cs to current employees who transfer in October as well as to new employees recruited after that date.

To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.

This advert closes on Sunday 5 Oct 2025