Housekeeper

**Housekeeper**:
**Band 2**:
**Main area**
- Children's Services
- **Grade**
- Band 2
- **Contract**
- Permanent
- **Hours**
- Part time - 25 hours per week
- **Job ref**
- 201-23-029**Site**
- Roston Shortbreak Home
- **Town**
- Camborne
- **Salary**
- £20,270 - £21,318 Pro rata
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- 22/01/2023 23:59Thank 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_**:

- We will deliver safe, high quality, consistent and personalised care based on best practice. We are working to be a responsive organisation that listens and learns._

**_ Great Organisation_**_ _**:

- We work to be a green organisation, and our sustainability plan will deliver NHS net zero targets. We will support quality care, research and innovation. All our work will be underpinned by clear and transparent principles and systems._

**_ Great People _**:

- We will work together with our staff to create an organisation that supports our collective health and wellbeing. We will attract, retain and develop great people, and embed a caring, open, inclusive and restorative just culture that supports us to deliver quality care._

**_ Great Partner_**:

- With our partners we will deliver health care that improves people’s quality of life, prevents ill health and reduces inequalities. We will spend our money wisely to achieve high quality outcomes that matter to local people._
- _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**:
To provide housekeeping services to the home environment. The post holder is responsible for the daily cleaning of the home ensuring that the required standards are met and the home is a safe and comfortable environment. The post holder will work as an integral part of the Roston team.

The main elements of the role are ensuring the delivery of cleaning, some catering and minor maintenance, together with other specified tasks to meet the needs of the children and young people during their stay at Roston. The post holder will be required to work closely with the Team Co-Ordinator, contractors and support services departments. He/she will monitor quality standards and rectify deficiencies.

**Main duties of the job**:
**_Come and contribute to providing a warm and homely environment that offers an amazing experience for children and young people having a short break stay away from their family home._**

Children’s Services are looking to recruit a Housekeeper to our Team at Roston.

Roston is a small welcoming two bedded home, regulated by Ofsted, which provides short breaks for children and young people with a learning disability and complex health needs.

You will possess excellent communication and decision making skills, be able to work autonomously and within a tight time framework and budget. You must have the knowledge and skills to support the needs of the service provided.

The work is interesting and challenging, but there is supervision, support and training available.

This is a part-time post working 25 hours per week, 5 out of 7 days to suit the service needs.

**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 part