Ward Housekeeper

Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust; Willerby; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a proactive Housekeeper for the Neonatal Unit and Transitional Care. The role focuses on maintaining a clean, safe, and comfortable environment to support high-quality care for sick and preterm newborn babies.

As part of the Neonatal Services team, you will work closely with the Ward Manager and support services to ensure tidiness, stock control, and effective catering and cleaning processes across clinical areas.

Qualifications

• Experience in housekeeping is desirable but not essential.
• Good communication and teamwork are essential.
• Flexible approach to different working environments.

Responsibilities

• Catering responsibilities, cleaning and tidying clinical areas.
• Ordering of stores and restocking of consumables.
• Minor maintenance of equipment as directed by shift team.

Skills

Cleaning

Catering

Teamwork

Job description

The post holder will work as an essential part of the Neonatal Services team coordinating all Hotel Services on the Neonatal Unit and Transitional Care. Working as part of the team to ensure a clean, safe and comfortable environment is maintained.You will work closely with the Ward Manager, contractors, support services, monitoring quality standards, report deficiencies and take appropriate action. The post holder will ensure that tidiness, cleanliness and general appearance of the unit is conducive with patient care.

The main responsibilities within the role include catering responsibilities, cleaning, ordering of stores, minor maintenance of equipment and re-stocking of consumables within the clinical areas together with other specified tasks as directed by the shift team

We are looking for an enthusiastic, highly motivated Housekeeper to join our team in the speciality of neonatal care. The successful applicant will play a vital role in supporting the delivery high quality safe and efficient care to sick and preterm newborn babies.

Good communication and teamwork are essential skills for the role with the ability to be flexible within different working environments.

Previous experience is desirable but not essential.

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.