Housekeeper

Join our friendly team where you will be given an exciting opportunity to develop. Educational and personal development plans will be available to support you in extending your knowledge and leadership, which is underpinned by strong research studies, in the same Trust. Our Department provides an excellent range of services delivered by our dedicated multidisciplinary team to the population. Our team works with a wide spectrum of patients also we work close with specialist nurses doctors. We will support new staff to attend the training relevant to the job, linking theory and practice. We strongly believe in role modelling the Trust values and our culture on the unit is based on a team approach. We are keen to recruit people that want to be empowered, that like to challenge practice and make informed decisions based on evidence-based practice. We really hope that you will consider joining us and look forward hearing from you soon.

Job Summary
1.1. To work as an integral part of the ward team ensuring a high quality service to patients and to provide a service that ensures that the patients’ needs are satisfied and ward requirements are met.
1.2. To assist the ward manager to ensure the appropriate and effective delivery of the facilities service in order to properly maintain the patient environment and services to the patients.
1.3. To supervise an effective waste segregation and disposal service ensuring compliance with all relevant procedures and legislation.
1.4. To work effectively as part of the ward/department team

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.

The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

01. Patient Related Duties
1.To liaise with the cleaning contractor/in-house housekeeping services/Monitoring Officers to ensure that cleaning standards on the Wards meet the agreed specification and any unsatisfactory areas are rectified.

2. To work effectively with the cleaning and catering staff as well as their supervisors to ensure that standards and policies are met.
3. To liaise with the nursing and housekeeping team regarding the patient’s day, ensuring that work is planned in the most appropriate way to provide a prioritised patient focused and seamless service.
4. To ensure, in conjunction with the ward co-ordinator, that patients are provided with appropriate beverages at regular intervals throughout the day. To make and serve beverages to relatives as instructed by the nursing staff and to ensure that patients have the necessary access to beverages throughout their stay in hospital.
5. To ensure that all patients have completed menu cards, giving assistance where necessary, and ensuring appropriate selections are made dependent on the patient’s dietary requirements. Ensure that the menus are returned to the catering department by the required time.
6. To ensure, in conjunction with the catering department that patient meals are served in a presentable and timely manner and that appropriate cutlery and condiments are supplied, as well as ensuring supplements are given to the patients/stored appropriately.
7. Assist with feeding dependent patients (following training and assessment of competence) and document accordingly.
8. To ensure that at the end of every meal and beverage service all cutlery, crockery and condiments are removed from the patient area and correctly stored, disposed of, or returned to the main kitchen. To ensure that all meal tables and eating areas are suitably prepared for meal times and to make sure they are wiped clean at the end of each meal. To offer assistance to patients before and after meals to cleanse their hands.
9. To ensure patients have an appropriate supply of drinking water and a clean glass.
10. To physically ensure that patients can reach their food and assist patients as necessary e.g. removing lids and cutting up food where required.
11. To maintain patient privacy, dignity and confidentiality at all times.

**2. Environmental Duties**:
2.1. To ensure that patients are provided with a litter bag at the bedside and that they are emptied and replenished regularly.
2.2. To establ