Housekeeper, Healthcare

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Main area Housekeeping Grade Band 2 Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 16 hours per week (Saturday & Sunday - ) Job
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Site Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Town Blackpool Salary £25,272 per annum (pro rata for part time) Salary period Yearly Closing 26/10/2026 23:59

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.

We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year.

We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.

We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.

An opportunity has arisen for the appointment of a part time housekeeper to work on Ward 35. The post will involve working Saturday & Sunday 0730 - 1600.

This is an important role within the ward team and every day will provide variety of the role although the team will remain the same. An enhanced DBS check will be required for this post. Please note that if you are successful in your application you agree that the Occupational Health Department can access your occupational health records from your current or previous employer (in order to check the status of your inoculations and screening tests).

This is an automated process and the information will only be used for these purposes prior to your taking up the position with us.

Experience of work as a housekeeper within the NHS ideal but not essential as full training will be given. Full details of main duties is available in the job description but this is an over view of the role:

Assisting patients with their nutrition and hydration needs,

Ensure unit and patient areas are clean and tidy,

Be a pivotal part in ensuring that the cleaning duties required weekly and monthly are completed to a high standard and documented

Management of stock,

Communicating with staff, patients and relatives both verbally and on the telephone, including welcoming to the unit environment.

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is ideally situated just a forty five minute drive from Manchester. The Trust…