Laundry Assistant

6 months ago


Oldham, United Kingdom Northern Care Alliance NHS Group Full time

**Job overview**:
**Job Title: Laundry Assistants**

**Salary/Band: 2**

**Speciality: Laundry**

**Care Organisation: NCA Royal Oldham Hospital**

**Contract type and hours: Permanent, 37.5 hours Mon
- Fri 6-2pm, & 12-8pm**

**Main duties of the job**:
The purpose of the job is to fully support the objectives of providing a cost effective and efficient, quality linen service to the Northern Care Alliance and its customers.

To ensure all required items are processed to the required quality standards and delivered “on-time” while maintaining the health, safety and wellbeing of all staff.***

**Working for our organisation**:
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to **make a difference** and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - **care**, **appreciate** and **inspire** - to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
Soil Linen Sorting: Empty tubs and cages of dirty linen onto conveyor system, or manually into washer barriers and stand-alone washers as required. Classify linen into linen bags or cages depending on category i.e. sheets, towels etc. Assign loads to rails for washer.

Washing Linen Select loads for washing using computerised system, when appropriate (monorail system to call off bags from rails). Free minor blockages. Load and unload by hand into washing machines linen including foul linen contained within alginate bags.

Cage Washer: Load Cages and laundry tubs into and out of the machine.

Tunnel Washer: Monitor computer to ensure correct chemicals, water and steam entering machine to ensure efficient washing of linen. Freeing of bags, resetting of monitors and freeing of blockages to ensure downtime kept to a minimum and efficiency of machines are kept to a maximum.

Calendars; Constant manual handling required at calendars i.e. emptying cages and tubs of pillowslips pulling sheets from belt etc. When necessary adjust calendar setting speeds to ensure production is maintained at the highest quality and production efficiency levels

Tunnel Finisher: Constant manual handling of articles to go through tunnel finishing system hanging items on hangers and assigning them to different sections for folding or clothing rails.

Towel Folding Machine: Constant manual handling to get items from tubs and load conveyor belt to place folded items onto cages. Attend to minor machine jams.

Manual dry fold area: Ensure that items are correctly folded packed and labelled for distribution to correct departments, hospitals or private customers.

All Areas; An awareness of good housekeeping in relation to cleanliness and safety of work area. Aware of cleaning duties including cleaning belts following body fluid spillages.

Communication: Immediate communication of any production problems, linen shortages, machine issues or any risks identified to the supervisor or management team. Shadow training new members of staff in line with work instructions and H&S guidelines

Planning & Organisational Skills: Prioritising own work to meet organisational needs and to meet customers delivery demands often at short notice with changes to priorities or following major breakdowns.

Making adjustment to machine settings which could impact on both production throughput and quality to meet production targets hourly/daily. Ability to understand and achieve production targets, reporting any issues as required.

Analytical and Judgmental Skills: Assign linen to all hospitals / private customers and departments; enter details into (computer system) ready for despatch by key deadline times ensuring service to customers is achieved. Awareness of despatch system ensuring linen is easily available to delivery drivers for pick up.

Physical Skills: Physical demands of tasks are constant, working in hot & cold environments (seasonal), standing, bending, lifting and twisting. Risk of exposure to infection or injury due to the nature of linen received and not correctly pack


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