Patient Services Assistant

Equans Working with Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust; Sunderland; In loco; GBP 18.000 - 25.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Uniform provided

Comprehensive training package

Generous annual leave

NHS pension scheme

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Equans Working with Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust is seeking Patient Services Assistants (cleaning) to join the busy Patient Services Department at QA Hospital. The role requires carrying out daily cleaning tasks across clinical and non-clinical areas, with early morning shifts.

Applicants must have excellent customer care skills. The post is monthly paid, with uniform provided and a comprehensive training package, plus access to NHS pension and generous annual leave.

Competenze

• Excellent customer care skills.

Mansioni

• Clean floors, furniture, fixtures, glassware and sanitary areas in Clinical and Non-Clinical areas.
• Carry out daily cleans and routine scrubs on wards and infectious scrubs as directed to minimize bed blocking.
• Change window and bed curtains as routine and after infectious cleans.
• Clean patient-related furniture including bedframes, lockers, tables and chairs.
• Operate heavy cleaning equipment (scrubbers, wet pickups, buffers) for ward and corridor cleaning.
• Clean Theatres and surrounding areas following Infection Control guidelines.

Conoscenze

Customer service

Strumenti

Vacuum cleaner

Scrubber/Dryer

Steam cleaner

Descrizione del lavoro

Equans Working with Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

Patient Services Assistant

The closing date is 15 November 2026

A vacancy has arisen for Patient Services Assistants (cleaning) to join the busy Patient Services Department at QA Hospital.

• 06:00-10:00 Monday - Friday
• 07:00-11:00 Monday - Friday
• 10:00-14:00 Monday - Friday

Applicants must have excellent customer care skills.

The post is monthly paid and uniform is provided. The successful applicant will receive a first class training package, and includes on and off the job training. Other benefits are a generous annual leave entitlement and the opportunity to join the NHS pension scheme.

Will require a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) form to be completed.

Main duties of the job

Responsible for cleaning all the floors, furniture, fixtures, fittings, glassware, high and low level surfaces, sanitary areas within Clinical and Non-Clinical Areas these duties will be carried out.

Carry out daily cleans, planned routine scrubs on wards, and ad hoc infectious scrubs as directed following outbreaks (ie MRSA, diarrhoea and vomiting, hepatitis etc) to ensure bed blocking is kept to a minimum. The daily cleaning of sanitary fixtures and fittings in patient and public areas.

High and low level cleaning, spot wash walls, dusting curtain tracks, radiators, and window ledges and cleaning of internal glass and doorframes as required.

Changing window and bed curtains as routine and after an infectious clean/scrub.

Cleaning of patient related furniture to include bedframes, lockers, tables and chairs.

Using heavy mechanical cleaning equipment (ie scrubbers, wet pickups, buffers) to clean floors in wards, bathrooms, toilets and corridors.

Cleaning of Theatres, daily scrubbing of floors, sinks and surrounding dirty and clean corridors following department and Infection Control guidelines.

About us

Equansworking in Partnership with Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.

TheTrust is committed to driving excellence in care for our patients andcommunities and was rated good by the Care Quality Commission report published2020 and became a University Hospital.

Weare ranked as the third in the country for research; embedding education andtraining across the organisation and we continuously strive to achieve our corevalues which are at the heart of everything we do.

TheTrusts main hub is the QAH, starting life as a military hospital over a centuryago and now one of the largest hospitals on the south coast. The Trust providescomprehensive secondary care and specialist services to a local population of675,000 people across South East Hampshire.

TheTrust employs over 8,000 staff and are #ProudtobePHU; our patients come fromall walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety ofbackgrounds, not just because its the right thing to do, but because it makesour hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for providingoutstanding care and support for patients, colleagues and our community youwill find a home at PHU.

Inrecruiting for our team, we welcome the unique contributions that you can bringin terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, genderidentity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteransstatus, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs.

Job responsibilities

EQUIPMENT AND MACHINERY

The postholder will be required to operate the following equipment.

Procedures as detailed in the Patient Services Operational Procedures Manual.

Tub or cylinder vacuum.

Hot water boilers/kettles Procedures Manual.

Safety Steps.

Scrubber/Dryer machines.

Steam cleaner machines.

This list is not exhaustive but indicative of the equipment in use.

SYSTEMS

Follow SOPs (Working Instructions) to ensure that the department is run in an efficient and safe manner.

Completion of Stores Request forms.

Completion of own timesheet / holiday sheets / sickness notes.

Reporting of faulty equipment to the Domestic Supervisor or Estates department.

Completion of paperwork relevant to post.

Completion of staff surveys.

Participating in relevant audits.

Qualifications

• No Experience Necessary But Desirable
• No Experience Necessary But Desirable

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

Equans Working with Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust