Housekeeper - Bodmin Catu

**Housekeeper - Bodmin CATU**:
**Band 2**:
**Main area**
- House keeper
- **Grade**
- Band 2
- **Contract**
- Permanent
- **Hours**
- Full time
- Part time

37.5 hours per week (full and part time hours available with some weekend working)
- **Job ref**
- 201-23-626**Site**
- Bodmin Hospital
- **Town**
- Bodmin
- **Salary**
- £20,669 - £21,318 Pro rata
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- 08/05/2023 23:59
- **Interview date**
- 16/05/2023Thank you for your interest in joining us at **Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.**

**We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.**

**_ Strategic Themes_**

**_ Great Care_**
- _Care based on what matters to people. _
- _Care provided at home or close to home. _
- _Improvement through learning, research and innovation. _
- _Prevention and alternatives to hospital._

**_Great Organisation_**
- _Buildings that support health and wellbeing. _
- _Technology enabled care. _
- _Care teams are supported by responsive corporate services. _
- _Safe, efficient, effective and productive._

**_Great People_**
- _A place people love to work and feel valued. _
- _Living our values with staff (all voices count). _
- _Attract, grow and develop talent. _
- _Leaders with compassion, who continuously learn and listen._

**_Great Partner_**
- _Encourage and enable effective partnerships. _
- _Joined-up community services. _
- _Work with others to maximise workforce opportunities. _
- _Reduce our impact on the environment._
- _At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. 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 whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

**_ The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19._**

**Job overview**:
The Bodmin Community Assessment Treatment Unit (CATU) aims to undertake patient management nearer to home linking into the care provided by GP teams

Bodmin CATU is an exciting place to work; a nurse led unit at Bodmin Community Hospital. Created to accept patients from Home or ED, nurses and healthcare assistants are using their assessment skills and developing practical skills.

We are looking for dynamic people who wish to join our team and expand their skill set within support roles, with the opportunity to support dynamic patient flow within a multidisciplinary team which includes doctors, occupational therapists and physiotherapists.

**Main duties of the job**:
To provide housekeeping services to the ward sister within the ward environment. The post holder will work as an integral part of the ward team. He/she will be responsible for the co-ordination of all patient facilities/services in the ward area and for ensuring a clean, safe and comfortable environment.

The main elements of the role are ensuring the delivery of cleaning, catering and minor maintenance, together with other specified tasks to meet patient needs, as determined by the ward sister/charge nurse. The post holder will be required to work closely with the Senior General Services Assistant, contractors and support services departments. He/she will monitor quality standards and rectify deficiencies.

This is based on Bodmin CATU, Bodmin Hospital.

**Working for our organisation**:
We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.

We work in people's homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.

Approximately 568,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In t