Haematology Housekeeper

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from the former Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. Together, we’ve a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore. If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond
- **come and take your place with us.**

**Job overview**:
Are you motivated, organised and caring?

We are looking housekeeper for the Haematology Unit, supporting both inpatient and daycase patients

This is a job share role with set days Thursday and Friday

You will need to be able to work within a small team on.

You will be allocated a team leader to support you

**Main duties of the job**:

- This role includes the undertaking of daily organisation, maintaining stock levels, audits, and cleanliness of the environment.Duties include stores ordering, management of stock, maintenance of equipment, also including general housekeeping of the unit.

It is essential that you are able to work in an orderly and systematic manner, possess good literacy, IT, numeracy, communication and organisational skills.

You need to have a caring attitude as you will be in contact with daycase and inpatient's on a daily basis. You will need the ability to work effectively under direction as part of a multidisciplinary team and autonomously working through your set tasks and routine.

Assisting with domestics and estates to ensure infection control measures are maintained

Assisting with food delivery and stock of food for immunosuppressed patient

The unit can be quite emotive and coping strategies required.

**Working for our organisation**:
Salford Care Organisation is part of the Northern Care Alliance, one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. Salford is the place, which is taking bold, pioneering steps towards delivering a world class, fully integrated care system for adults.

Home to the Manchester Centre for Clinical Neurosciences, Greater Manchester Trauma Hospital and the Geoffrey Jefferson Brain Research Centre, Salford is improving care for some of the sickest patients in the region, and delivers a range of acute, community and primary care services and specialist services to Greater Manchester and beyond.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
**Person specification**:
**Qualification**:
**Essential criteria**:

- NVQ 3 or equivalent

**Desirable criteria**:

- experience of audit

**Experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- previous stock management
- IT skills
- Housekeeper experience
- Worked with public

**Desirable criteria**:

- Worked within NHS
- understanding of ordering IT systems

**communication**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Demonstrates good verbal/written communication
- We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to supporting flexible working for our people wherever possible and all our colleagues are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

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