Housekeeper - Main Theatres

An exciting new opportunity has arisen for a dedicated housekeeper to join the Main Theatres team.

You will work closely with patients and all members of the multi-disciplinary team. You will need good communication skills and an ability to work independently, as well as part of a wider team.

This role will support the theatre team to maintain high standards of environmental cleanliness.

Within this role, you will work as an integral part of the Main Theatres team ensuring a clean, safe and comfortable environment for patients, staff and visitors.

**Duties include**:
Supporting the theatre team to ensure high standards of cleanliness within the department.

Collecting equipment/items from other areas of the hospital

To visually check the overall cleanliness of the department, monitoring the cleaning specification and maintenance schedule taking remedial action as appropriate.

To ensure the staff kitchen and rest rooms are clean and tidy.

To check the temperature of the food fridges in the rest rooms and ensure they are kept clean and tidy and that all food is labelled and out of date items disposed of.

To ensure kitchen stock levels are appropriate for staff and replenish as necessary.

To ensure scrub supplies are replenished and scrubs are unpacked when delivered and put on correct shelving.

The cleaning and collections of theatre clogs/footwear.

To ensure all stocks in changing rooms are replenished as required i.e. soap, hand towels, hats, masks etc.

To ensure equipment room is clean and tidy and all equipment is clean with dated stickers attached.

Ensure all offices are cleaned twice weekly including the floors.

To complete all cleaning schedules and any other paperwork accurately within given timelines.

The cleaning of operating table attachments and X-ray gowns.

Tidying and stocking up of IV / irrigation fluids.

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) King's Lynn is West Norfolk has a superb unspoilt coastline with pretty villages, all with their own individual charm. The medieval port of King's Lynn has some very interesting architecture.

We provide a comprehensive range of specialist and general acute services to around 331,000 people across West and North Norfolk, in addition to parts of Breckland, Cambridgeshire and South Lincolnshire. We have more than 4,000 staff and volunteers and approximately 500 beds on a single site. Some specialist services and clinics are provided in community facilities, such as the North Cambridgeshire hospital in Wisbech. We work in partnership with neighbouring hospitals for the provision of tertiary services.

In February 2022 the QEH the Care Quality Commission rated the Trust as 'Good' in all of the core services they inspected, and recommended the Trust moves out of the recovery support system (formerly special measures).

We are delighted to have been added to the New Hospital Programme - and we look forward to bringing a new Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) to King’s Lynn and West Norfolk which is nothing less than our patients, local communities and staff deserve.

For more information regarding this position, please see the Job Description and Person Specification.