Community Caretaker

A Vacancy has arisen for Community Caretaker based at our Rainbow Community Hub in Elland,

We are looking for a motivated person with a positive attitude. The main responsibilties of to the post holder will to to carry out a working / caretaking role within our community health service which will include supervision of the day-to-day operation of Domestic Services, ensuring quality services are delivered in compliance with relevant service specification and key performance indicators.

Ensure the continuous delivery of services and respond to service failures in a timely manner.

To act as key contact for all daily operational issues, concerns and service failures, responding to and resolving such issues in a timely amd professional manner.

To have keyholder and alarm responsibilty.
- Job sharing will be consideration for this position

General Day-to-Day Cleaning
- Sweeping, Mopping, Scrubing / Polishing Floors.
- Vaccuming Cleaning of Carpets.
- Damp Dusting / Polishing Furniture, Fixtures and Fittings etc.
- Cleaning Sanitory Areas.
- Replenish Paper Products, Soap etc.
- Disposal of Refuse.
- Bed Making in Residence's and On Call Doctors rooms, where applicable.
- Sort Linen / Maintain Linen Levels where applicable.

Periodical / Specialist Cleaning
- Shampooing Carpets / Furniture.
- Changing of Cubicle / Window Curtains where applicable.
- Special / Intensive Cleaning at Supervisors request.
- Thorough clean of Bed, Locker, Bed table etc. following patient discharge where applicable.
- Special Cleaning of Infectious / Infected Areas. (HPV) - where applicable

Caretaking Responsibilties
- To ensure that Cleaning Services are delivered to the agreed standard and appropiate quality auditing is carried out as required.
- To assist in the continuous development of Cleaning Services.
- Continuous training, supervision and welfare of staff where appropiate.
- Arranging and recording periodic duties, ensuring the observance of safe working practices.
- Carry out appraisals of staff where applicable.
- Organising or covering for annual leave / sickness where applicable.
- Order, Control and account for the issue, and use of Cleaning Materials.
- Checking Equipment and reporting faults.
- To report the need for structural and fabric repair, log jobs with Estates Maintainence.
- Key Holder responsibilties

At CHS we understand the differences in delivering our services in complex environments and we have a flexible approach to meet the needs of our customers. Our Estates and Facilities management functions alongside our Medical Engineering, decontamination and procurement service, provides the following:

- Fully managed estate and building maintenance
- Medical engineering/equipment maintenance/ decontamination
- Procurement advice, guidance and governance
- Capital project management
- Transport
- Grounds maintenance.
- Portering
- Catering
- Cleaning (including robot and deep cleaning)

All provided to nationally recognised standards giving you assurance that your premises and equipment will be the best they can, and your customers will have confidence in you as a provider.

The above is a summary of the main duties to be undertaken. In addition you may be asked to undertake other duties, which are appropiate to assist in the smooth running of the service. All colleagues in post will hace to successfully complete BICSc training methods of cleaning including all associated safe systems of work.