Band 2 Domestic Assistant

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Community services are a key part of the NHS of the future. Be part ofthat future now.

Join us and help achieve better care and healthier communities.

The housekeeping and domestic team at Moseley Hall Hospital is looking to recruit 4 domestic assistants to provide a high standard cleaning service across the Moseley Hall Hospital site.

The role available are as follows:

• 1 part time staff member working 5 days out of the 7 on a 15 hour a week contract.
• 2 part time staff member working 3 days out of the 7 on a 22.5 hour a week contract.
• 1 part time staff member working 3 days out of the 7 on a 21 hour a week contract.

If you are unable to fulfil these hours then please do not apply.

The cleaning operative will enhance the patient’s experience by ensuring that the clinical environment is clean, well presented and maintained to enhance the patient’s sense of comfort, safety and well-being.

• To ensure the environment is cleaned in line with the national cleaning standards
• Using electrical machinery
• Cleaning medical/hard equipment.
• Report maintenance issues
• Undertake enhanced cleaning when required

IMPORTANT

• Please ensure you check your TRAC account regularly as this is how we will communicate with you during the shortlisting and selection process.
• Please ensure all sections of the application form are completed fully. Please particularly ensure that you provide full details of all referees including BUSINESS EMAIL ADDRESS
  , telephone contact details and postal address

Be Part of Our Team...

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry.

We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for better care and healthier communities, we want to hear from you.

• Responsible for the safe and effective delivery of the Cleaning service.
• Undertake scheduled cleaning tasks, including the cleaning of clinical equipment, as per schedules.
• Uphold all Infection Prevention and Control measures as required within the Trust.
• Ensuring that all domestic consumables are available at all times in the appropriate dispenser/holder.
• Undertake ad-hoc cleaning tasks as required by the Senior Housekeeper and/or clinical staff.
• Ensuring Health & Safety in the workplace Legislation is adhered to.
• Report the need for any estates maintenance requests to the Housekeeping Supervisor.
• Identify areas for continuous improvement and liaising with the Housekeeping Supervisor to develop those improvements

• Good basic education Ability to read and write and numerical skills.
• NVQ Level 2 British Institute of Cleaning Science in Domestic Services or equivalent and a willingness to undertake within 6 months of employment.

• Experience of using electrical machinery. e.g.. Rotary machines,…