Soft Facilities Assistant - Leominster

Wye Valley; Leominster; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 28,000; Part time

Job summary

Wye Valley NHS Trust in Leominster is looking for a part-time Estates & Facilities cleaner to provide a courteous, efficient cleaning service at Leominster Community Hospital. The role requires use and care of cleaning materials and equipment, adherence to COSHH and safety procedures, and a patient-centered approach.

You will communicate with staff, patients and visitors, follow instructions, and may travel between sites within Herefordshire.

Qualifications

• Good communication skills.
• Basic literacy skills.
• Ability to follow instructions and organise work.
• Experience in cleaning or catering environment.
• Food Hygiene Certificate (or willingness to complete).
• Understanding of health and safety processes.

Responsibilities

• Provide courteous, efficient cleaning service within the trust.
• Use and care of approved cleaning materials and equipment per instructions.
• Ensure safe handling and storage of materials in line with COSHH.
• Maintain a friendly, professional attitude toward patients, staff and visitors.
• Communicate with staff, suppliers, contractors and patients about cleaning matters.
• Travel between sites as required and perform ad-hoc cleaning duties.

Skills

Good communication

Basic literacy

Follow instructions

Cleaning experience

Health & safety awareness

Education

Food Hygiene Certificate

Job description

Main area Estates & Facilities Grade Band 2 Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 0.44 sessions per week (3 shifts over 7 days) Job ref 229-COR-8364745

Site Leominster Community Hospital Town Leominster / Hereford Salary £25,272 pa pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 03/11/2026 23:59

Job overview

To provide a courteous efficient cleaning service within the trust.

• Use and care of approved cleaning materials and equipment at all times in accordance with the operator instructions.
• Ensure that all equipment and materials are used and stored safely in compliance with COSHH regulations.
• Undertake all cleaning duties in a safe manner using hazard signs as appropriate
• To project a friendly and professional attitude to all patients, staff and visitors and to demonstrate product knowledge when enquires are made.
• Ensure that communication channels are maintained between appropriate staff / suppliers / contractors /visitor / patient groups with regard to cleaning sciences.
• Work in a safe manner so that no other persons are put at risk whilst cleaning duties are being performed.

• Initially deal with any complaints / comments regarding the service in a courteous manner from Trust staff or patients.
• As required or under supervision, provision of any ad-hoc cleaning duties complying with any specific infection control or management instruction in respect of specific cleaning requirements.

Main duties of the job

To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view "supporting documents" linked to this vacancy.

Working for our organisation

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

Worcestershire is our neighbouring county. The post holder will be required to travel between sites.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we’d want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust – they tell us it’s a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”

Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to attached job description/personal specification to view the full range of duties and responsibilities

Person specification

• Good level of communication skills
• Basic Literacy Skills
• Ability to follow instructions and organise own work to meet the team objectives, adapting work to meet any changing priorities which may need to meet tight timescales
• Previous experience in cleaning or catering Environment
• Food Hygiene Certificate ( or willingness to complete) /
• Understanding of health and safety processes

Experience

• Previous experience in cleaning or catering environment
• Food Hygiene Certificate or willingness to complete

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.