Support Services

Buckinghamshire Healthcare Nhs Trust; High Wycombe; Presencial; GBP 20.000 - 24.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust is seeking a Ward Housekeeper for ward 12C. The role supports nursing staff by keeping the ward running smoothly, handling meals, serving tea/coffee, and maintaining a clean kitchen area to ensure a comfortable environment for patients and visitors.

Responsibilities include stocking goods, liaising with cleaning teams, and reporting maintenance issues. PPE and infection control procedures apply; travel expenses for interviews are not paid.

Formación

• Ability to manage the role in a busy ward setting.
• Maths and English pass rate required.

Responsabilidades

• Welcoming new patients and visitors, helping maintain a comfortable safe ward environment.
• Ordering meals, serving food, doing tea/coffee rounds.
• Assisting with feeding patients under nurse supervision.
• Topping up kitchen stock.
• Ensuring cleanliness of kitchen area.
• Liaising with cleaning and domestic teams.
• Ordering stock.
• Reporting maintenance issues.

Conocimientos

Ability to manage in busy setting

Herramientas

Computer literacy

Descripción del empleo

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen on ward 12C for an house Keeper role.

The ward Housekeeper is a non clinical support role that keeps the ward running smoothly so nursing staff can focus on direct patient care.

Main duties of the job

• Welcoming new patients and visitors, helping maintain a comfortable safe ward environment
• Ordering meals, serving food, doing tea/coffee rounds,
• Assisting with feeding patients under nurse supervision.
• Topping up kitchen stock.
• Ensuring cleanliness of kitchen area.
• Liaising with cleaning and domestic teams.
• ordering stock
• reporting maintenance issues

Working for our organisation

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What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?

• As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
• We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
• We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

Why work for us?

• We’re committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
• As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
• Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.
• A keen supporter of the Armed Forces Community who know the value of employing a service leaver/veteran and their families.

What do we stand for?

• Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
• Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
• Our care values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.

Person specification

Successful interview

Essential criteria

• ability to manage the role in a busy setting

Desirable criteria

• previous healthcare experience but not essentials

maths and english

Essential criteria

• maths and english pass rate

Desirable criteria

• computer literacy

PPE requirements:

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.

Flu vaccinations

Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.

Application deadline:

This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight, however if we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before the advertised date.

Application information:

If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records (ESR) system.

Shortlisting:

The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.

Travel expenses:

It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interviews will not be reimbursed.

Smoking:

All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.

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