Bank Housekeeper

Bank Housekeeper | Hospital Housekeeper | Spire Bushey Hospital | Private Hospital | Bank | Weekly pay | Flexible working hours |

Spire Bushey Hospital is looking for a Housekeeper to carry out housekeeping duties throughout the hospital, on a Bank basis. You will complete cleaning schedules ensuring rooms are ready to the correct layout. The experienced housekeeper will mainly cover shifts for sickness and annual leave.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Maintain high standards of cleanliness throughout the hospital in line with the housekeeping and infection control policy
• Complete the cleaning schedules related to the shift, ensuring that rooms are ready for immediate occupation and public areas are clean
• Keep in close contact with the Senior Housekeeper and report any concerns regarding housekeeping issues immediately
• Work in close liaison with the clinical staff, understanding the special needs of the hospital on a day to day basis
• Responsible for the day to day maintenance of the equipment provided, checking for faults and supply shortages and reporting them to the line manager
• Compliance with all Health and Safety at Work regulations including COSHH
• Work with guidance on moving and handling, as identified in corporate and local policy and discussed at Mandatory training sessions
• Quality assurance and patient confidentiality must be maintained at all times

Spire Healthcare is a leading independent healthcare group in the United Kingdom, running 38 hospitals and over 50 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland. It provides diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care, operates a network of private GPs and provides workplace health services to over 800 corporate clients. It also delivers a range of private and NHS mental health, musculoskeletal and dermatological services.

We have achieved our market leading position because of our Purpose, which is to 'make a positive difference to people's lives through outstanding personalised care'. Everyone at Spire is aligned to this purpose, which underpins a culture of respect, inclusion, passion and collaboration across our business, enabling us to achieve more than 98% of our hospitals being rated 'Good' or 'Outstanding' by the Regulators;

these are sector leading standards.

• Experience in a customer facing environment
• Experience working unsupervised and on own initiative, prioritising tasks
• A positive and flexible approach to customer service
• Willing and able to complete mandatory training for COSHH, Manual Handling, Infection Control, food hygiene and Health & Safety in-house
• Bank colleagues are paid weekly
• We offer competitive rates to our bank colleagues who work on a flexible basis, often to cover busy periods, sickness, or annual leave
• Save an average of £50 per month with our free onsite car park
• Access to Spire Healthcare pension
• Access to Blue Light Card discounts
• Free uniform
• Free DBS
• Full induction, including mandatory training updates
• Opportunities for further training and progression into permanent posts
• Knowledge, support and guidance through your recruitment journey from Spire's specialist Resourcing Team

We commit to our employees well-being through work life balance, ongoing development, support and reward.

For us, it's more than just treating patients; it's about looking after people.

Closing date:
In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.