Domestic Assistant

**Please note this is a part-time post and the salary for this position will be pro-rata.**

NHS Lanarkshire is looking for a part-time Domestic Assistant to join the Support Services Team.

The post holder will provide domestic service to patients, staff and visitors of NHS Lanarkshire, (NHSL) premises through the use of effective and efficient methods, which deliver a ‘safe’ and welcoming environment and meet the required NHSL and Hospital Acquired Infections (HAI ) standards.

Applicants should have knowledge of cleaning standards and related procedures and a working knowledge of Health & Safety. Effective written and verbal communication skills, the ability to work with people and as part of a multidisciplinary team, the ability to carry out assigned tasks effectively and efficiently in a busy environment and a working knowledge of basic information technology are required.

**KNOWLEDGE, TRAINING AND/OR EXPERIENCE REQUIRED TO DO THE JOB**
- Knowledge of cleaning standards and related procedures.
- Required to undertake on-the-job training and induction (this will generally take 4-6 weeks, depending on hours/days worked ), to achieve full competency across a range of duties
- Working knowledge of Health & Safety including participation in risk-assessing individual tasks
- Required to undertake Prevention, Assessment & Management Of Violence & Aggression (PaMOVA) training level 1 and level 2, if identified following an appropriate risk assessment
- Undertake NHS Lanarkshire compulsory training
- Undertake mandatory Health Care Support Workers (HCSW) standards
- Undertake and complete NHSS Domestic Services Workbook.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work with people and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Ability to carry out assigned tasks effectively and efficiently in a busy environment
- Working knowledge of basic information technology.

‘In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.
- Care experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential children’s setting/secure unit.’

Whilst this advertisement may be for a specific post(s) in a particular location, applicants who are shortlisted for interview may be considered for similar vacancies in alternative locations.

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