Modern Housekeeper

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust; East Midlands; Sur place; GBP 12 000 - 17 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Development opportunities

Employee assistance programme

Discounted gym membership

Onsite fitness classes

Car schemes

Résumé du poste

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Modern Housekeeper for the Orthopaedic Theatre at The Royal Derby Hospital. The role is part of the Theatre Team, delivering non-clinical services and supporting patient facilities with cleaning, catering and minor maintenance.

You will work across a 7-day service with 6-hour shifts, demonstrating confidentiality, literacy and numeracy, and a good understanding of infection control.

Qualifications

• GCSE/Maths and English (minimum)
• Food hygiene certification
• Additional role-related training

Responsabilités

• Maintain privacy, dignity and confidentiality for all Trust operations.
• Coordinate with Service Provider to ensure a clean, safe, comfortable environment.
• Plan the day’s work with Lead Practitioners to meet high standards of patient facilities services.
• Undertake cleaning of medical equipment and related items as needed.
• Ensure theatre coffee area meets Food Hygiene Standards and cleanliness requirements.

Connaissances

Communication with MDT

Infection control knowledge

Formation

GCSE/Maths and English

Food hygiene certification

Outils

Computer Skills

Description du poste

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Modern Housekeeper

The closing date is 02 November 2026

This post is based in Orthopaedic Theatre at The Royal Derby Hospital. The working hours are 6 hour shifts covering a 7 day service.

Your role will be to work as an integral part of the Theatre Team. 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 the departments needs, as determined by the Theatre Matron and Lead Practitioners.

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.

Main duties of the job

• Ensure that personal privacy, dignity and confidentiality relating to all aspects of the Trust's operations is maintained.
• Liaise with the Service Provider to ensure a clean, safe and comfortable environment.
• Liaise with the Lead Practitioners 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 Theatre coffee area in accordance with contractual requirements and Food Hygiene Standards.

Closing date of applications: 2nd November 2026

Date of interview: 16th November 2026

About us

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.

Job responsibilities

UHDB is committed to fair and transparent recruitment. We welcome authentic applications that reflect your own skills, experience and motivations for the role. While we understand that candidates may use AI tools for grammar, formatting or accessibility purposes, applications that appear to be substantially AI-generated may be subject to additional review. If this applies to your submission, we will let you know and may ask for clarification. Please ensure your application accurately represents your experience and is written in your own words.

Please note this position is not eligible for sponsorship. Applicants must be able to demonstrate an existing and ongoing right to work in the UK for the duration of the contract without sponsorship from the Trust.

Your application (for shortlisting purposes) is assessed based on the Person Specification in the job advert (below).

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Good standard of general education (GCSE/CSE or equivalent, including English and Maths).
• Food hygiene certification
• Additional training relevant to role applied for

Experience

• Previous experience of working in the NHS/customer service
• Previous experience of carrying out audits, monitoring of quality standards and developing action plans to track progress

Skills

• Ability to effectively communicate with all members of the MDT
• Computer Skills

Knowledge

• Ability to prioritise workload to meet the needs of the service and deliver a clean working environment
• The ability to interpret and implement standards in accordance with hospital policy

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust