Digestive Disease Unit C2 Housekeeper

3 months ago

Blackburn, United Kingdom East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust Full time

Ward C2 is a specialist Digestive Disease Unit unit based on the Royal Blackburn Hospital Site. We have a dedicated Multidisciplinary Team that is motivated and enthusiastic to provide safe effective and personal care for all our patients, their families and carers.

We are a friendly, hardworking, supportive and caring team and as a team we welcome and support new starters. There are lots of opportunities for development and ongoing relevant learning.

Ward C2 is a busy unit with a professional but friendly team delivering high standards of care. We are looking for highly enthusiastic, motivated and committed housekeeper to join our forward thinking and ever developing team. You should be able to work effectively as part of a team and deal with complex sensitive information in a professional manner.

To maintain a clean and tidy environment for patients, staff and visitors. Assist in the needs of patients, visitors and staff and maintain a good working relationship within the team.

Support the wider team in delivering patient centred care in a comfortable, safe environment

Be responsible for ordering and maintaining stock levels of equipment. To organise and prioritise own workload.

At East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust our vision is to be widely recognised for providing safe, personal and effective care. We currently provide high quality services and treat over 600,000 people across East Lancashire and the surrounding area. We employ over 9,500 staff, many of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work.

Clinical

Ensure that adequate precautions are taken to minimise the risk of cross infection, particularly in relation to the safe disposal of body fluids and blood products.

Daily damp dusting of the medical equipment within the ward environment such as monitors, infusion pumps etc with the aim of the prevention of infection, ensuring they are completely stocked.

The safe laundering of infected linen and knowledge of infection control policies regarding the same.

Safe lifting moving and storing of medical supplies daily and maintaining a safe environment where the medical equipment is stored.

Management

To be able to organise own day to day activities, using own initiative to prioritise own workload to a high standard.

Responsible for reporting of broken/faulty equipment/fixtures and furnishing to the relevant departments, maintaining records for the same, and ensuring prompt actions are taken to maintain the smooth running of the unit

When ordering medical and surgical supplies to liaise with other outside companies comparing costs to ensure economical use of monies within the budget using verbal and written skills.

As frequent physical effort is required for long periods during a shift, all moving and handling guidelines must be followed and the post holder must attend Trust moving and handling mandatory training.

Communication

Answering the telephone in a courteous manner, taking messages, referring calls to the nursing and medical staff.

Maintaining confidentiality of patient information

Participate in unit meetings and ensure ward manager is made aware of any issues on the unit.

Develop own skills and knowledge and contribute to the development of others e.g. peers & apprentices.

Attend statutory and mandatory training as required.

Participate in personal development review, personal development plan and maintain personal development portfolio. Achieve agreed learning objectives.

Contribute to the development of the service.

Risk Management

It is a standard element of the role and responsibility of all staff of the Trust that they fulfill a proactive role towards management of risk in all their actions. This entails the risk assessment of all situations, the taking of appropriate actions and reporting of incidents, near misses and hazards.

Records management/Data Protection Act

As an employee of the Trust, you have a legal responsibility for all records, including patient health, financial, personal and administrative, that you gather or use as part of your work within the Trust. The records may be paper, electronic, microfiche, audio, video tapes, x-ray images etc. You must consult your manager if you have any doubt as to the correct management of the records with which you work.

Health and Safety

All employees of the Trust have a statutory duty of care for their own personal safety and that of others who may be affected by their acts or omissions. Employees are required to co-operate with management to enable the Trust to meet its own legal duties and to report any circumstances that may compromise the health, safety and welfare of those affected by the Trust undertakings.

Confidentiality and Information Security

As a Trust employee you are required to uphold the confidentiality of all records held by the Trust whether patient records or Trust information. This duty lasts indefinitely and will continue if you are no longer employed by the Trust.

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