Housekeeper - Neurosurgery Ward 2a

5 months ago


Preston, United Kingdom Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

You will be responsible for ensuring the cleanliness and appropriate storage of all equipment and furnishings, keeping them in good repair. Your attention to detail and commitment to maintaining an orderly environment will contribute significantly to the smooth operation of our clinical facilities.

Collaborating with clinical staff, your role extends to providing essential support in upholding a clean environment, including meticulous record-keeping of strict cleaning schedules.

This role includes overseeing the cleanliness and organisation of common areas such as staff and parent kitchen and sitting rooms. Your responsibilities encompass keeping these spaces clean, tidy, and well-stocked, with a focus on monitoring daily fridge temperatures. By contributing to the maintenance of these shared spaces, you play a vital role in creating a positive and comfortable environment for everyone on the unit.

Beyond the clinical aspects, you will provide valuable support in non-clinical duties related to patient needs. This includes maintaining medical supplies, dry goods, and other essential items to pre-determined levels throughout the clinical area.

We look forward to welcoming you into our team.

**Here's what the role entails**:
**️ Menu Management**: Develop a comprehensive menu each morning, ensuring dietary requirements are met and available by 9 am.

**⏰ Efficient Meal Coordination**: Work closely with the team to coordinate meal times efficiently, ensuring patients receive their meals promptly and according to schedule.

**Hydration Oversight**: Maintain regular intervals for providing drinks to patients, promoting hydration and well-being throughout the day.

**Hygiene Maintenance**: Prioritise cleanliness by ensuring patients are thoroughly cleaned both before and after meals, promoting hygiene and comfort.

**Rota Maintenance**: Oversee the cleaning rota all shifts, ensuring the ward remains immaculate at all times.

**Thorough Inspection**: Conduct inspections and decluttering of bays and corridors, maintaining a pristine environment conducive to recovery.

**Adherence to Protocol**: Follow a rigorous kitchen cleaning checklist to uphold sanitation standards and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.

Inventory Management

Supplies Management

**Equipment Maintenance**: Report any faults promptly and ensure equipment is cleaned and maintained in optimal condition for patient use.

**Stock Oversight**: Monitor inventory levels and ensure all necessary supplies are replenished in a timely manner to support uninterrupted operations.

**Infection Control Compliance**:
We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.

Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.

You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.

You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.

Joining our team means being an indispensable part of our commitment to providing high-quality healthcare in a clean, organised, and well-maintained clinical environment. Your contributions will make a significant impact on the overall well-being of our patients and the smooth functioning of our clinical operations.

Working hours are Monday-Friday 8 am to 4 pm with a 30 minute break.

See job description attached to advert for more information.



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