Modern Housekeeper

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust; Burton upon Trent; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Burton upon Trent is seeking a dedicated team member for the Maternity Wards. The role involves ensuring cleanliness and comfort for patients, supporting non-clinical needs, and being an integral part of the Clinical Ward Team. Applicants should possess excellent communication skills and a caring attitude. This position offers opportunities for professional development and various staff benefits.

Benefits

Development opportunities

On-going support

Employee assistance programme

Discounted gym membership

Onsite fitness classes

Car schemes

Qualifications

• Caring and compassionate attitude required.
• Excellent communication skills essential.
• Understanding confidentiality is crucial.
• Demonstrate literacy and numeracy skills.
• Awareness of infection control principles is important.

Responsibilities

• Ensure personal privacy, dignity, and confidentiality.
• Liaise with Service Provider for cleanliness and comfort.
• Provide focal point for patients' non-clinical needs.
• Participate in Patient Satisfaction Surveys.
• Undertake cleaning of medical equipment as required.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Literacy and numeracy skills

Understanding of confidentiality

Caring and compassionate attitude

Awareness of infection control principles

Job description

Overview

This post is based on the Maternity Wards at Queens Hospital Burton. The working hours are 7.5 hour shifts covering a 7 day service.

Your role will be to work as an integral part of the Clinical Ward Team and to be responsible for the co-ordination of all patient facilities services in the ward area, ensuring a clean, safe and comfortable environment.

The main elements of the role are to ensure that there is a seamless approach to the provision of non-clinical services; ensuring the appropriate delivery of cleaning, catering and minor maintenance, together with other specified tasks, to meet individual patients’ needs, as determined by the Ward Sister.

Ideally you’ll have a caring and compassionate attitude, excellent communication skills and understand confidentiality. You will be able to demonstrate literacy and numeracy skills and the ability to deliver high standards in all aspects of the role.

You will also have a good awareness of infection control principles with cleanliness and tidiness being an important part of your role in maintaining the working environment.

Having a “can do” approach in supporting our unit team to achieve smooth running of our department is essential.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that personal privacy, dignity and confidentiality relating to all aspects of the Trust’s operations is maintained.
• To participate in Patient Satisfaction Surveys as required.
• To provide a focal point for individual patients in relation to their day to day non-clinical needs.
• Liaise with the Service Provider to ensure a clean, safe and comfortable environment and that all patients food and beverage requirements are met.
• Liaise with the Lead Sister and Service Provider, to ensure that the day’s work is planned in the most appropriate way, in order to deliver a high standard of patient facilities services.
• Undertake the cleaning of medical equipment, and other relevant items as identified.
• Ensure thorough cleanliness standards are met in the ward kitchen in accordance with contractual requirements and Food Hygiene Standards.

Closing date of applications: 10 September 2025

Date of interview: 24 September 2025

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In Return We Will Offer

• Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
• On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

Key Facts

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England – an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day – 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
• UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Emma Gibbard Job title: Senior Midwife Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07920544403

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