Linen Room Assistant

Freeman Hospital; Carthage (MO); On-site; USD 16,000 - 24,000; Part time

Job summary

Freeman Hospital is looking for a Linen Room Assistant to join our busy linen room team. You will ensure wards, theatres and departments receive daily deliveries of clean linen while maintaining the correct stock levels and quality.

Hours are 8:00 to 12:30, Monday to Friday, totaling 22.5 hours per week. You will prioritise demands from users, organise storage and issue of linen, and help with daily stock counts to support patient care.

Interviews on 16 November. NO AGENCIES PLEASE.

Qualifications

• No formal qualifications listed in the posting.

Responsibilities

• Prioritise demands from users of the service.
• Organise, checking, storage and issue of clean linen to end users.
• Ensure daily linen supplies are packed and sorted for distribution to wards / departments.
• Counting and recording of daily linen stock deliveries from Laundry.
• Participate in linen counts and stock checks on wards and departments as required.
• Ensuring newly purchased linen is labelled before it is put into circulation.
• Organise and prioritise day-to-day tasks.
• Use initiative in response to emergencies regarding linen supplies or shortages.

Job description

• 22 Hours 30 Minutes/Week
• Urgent treatment centres

Linen Room Assistant

Band 2

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS hospital trusts in the country. We have around 16,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.7 billion.

With strong history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation regionally, nationally and internationally, we’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country.

As well as providing a wide range of hospital and community services, we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.

Job Overview

Do you want to be part of a dynamic, fast paced and motivational team ?

An opportunity has arisen to be part of our busy linen room within the Freeman Hospital.

As a linen room assistant you will ensure that all wards, departments, theatres and any other area requiring linen, are provided with daily deliveries of good quality clean linen, whilst ensuring that the agreed quantity and mix of linen are delivered.

Hours of the post will be 8am to 12.30pm Monday to Friday.

• Interview Date 16 November
• 22 Hours 30 Minutes/Week

NO AGENCIES PLEASE

Main duties of the job

• Prioritise demands from users of the service.


• Organise, checking, storage and issue of clean linen to end users


• Ensure daily linen supplies are packed and sorted for distribution to wards / departments


• Counting and recording of daily linen stock deliveries from Laundry.


• Participate in linen counts and stock checks on wards and departments as and when required.


• Ensuring that newly purchased linen is appropriately marked before it is put into circulation.


• Organise and prioritise own day-to-day tasks.


• Use initiative in response to emergency situations regarding linen supplies or shortages.

Working for our organisation

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:

• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)


• Freeman Hospital


• Newcastle Dental Hospital


• Cramlington Manor Walks


• Urgent treatment centres


• Newcastle Fertility Centre


• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria


• Northern Genetics Service

These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-