Domestic Assistant

**Please note this is a part time post and the salary for this position will be pro-rata.**

**Shift Pattern: 16.45-20.00 Monday - Thursday; 16.45-19.45 Friday**

**We have the opportunity to be part of the domestic service team for patients, staff and visitors of NHS Lanarkshire **a**t Kildrum Health Centre.**

You will provide domestic service to patients, staff and visitors of NHS Lanarkshire, (NHSL) premises through the use of effective and efficient methods, which deliver a ‘safe’ and welcoming environment and meet the required NHSL and Hospital Acquired Infections (HAI )standards. To work alongside and support new staff in the working environment.

Knowledge, training and/or experience required to do the job
- Undertake a range of cleaning tasks which require the use of machinery, equipment and cleaning appliances involving manual handling and lifting.
- Required to undertake on the job training and induction (this will generally take 4-6 weeks, depending on hours/days worked ), to achieve full competency across a range of duties.
- Working knowledge Health & Safety including participation in risk assessing individual tasks.
- Undertake NHS Lanarkshire compulsory training.
- Undertake mandatory Health Care Support Workers (HCSW) standards.
- Undertake and complete NHSS Domestic Services Workbook.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work with people and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Ability to carry out assigned tasks effectively and efficiently in a busy environment.
- Working knowledge of basic information technology.
- ‘In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another._
- _Care experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential children’s setting/secure unit.’_

Whilst this advertisement may be for a specific post(s) in a particular location, applicants who are shortlisted for interview may be considered for similar vacancies in alternative locations.

Please note for all vacancies where a driving licence is required this must be a full UK/EU/EEA licence

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