Bank Housekeeper

Salary**£10.88 - £11.42 Per Hour**
- Location**Old Brampton, Chesterfield**
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**The vacancy**

**About the role**

**Hours**: includes weekends and bank holidays. Shifts typically start at 7:30am till 12:30pm, and 4pm till 7pm, Flexibility is essential.
- You will join a dedicated Estates Team who pride themselves on delivering a first class support service. Duties will include the cleaning of all clinical areas for example the in patient unit, outpatient rooms and non clinical areas such as offices, meeting rooms and reception areas. You will be expected to work alongside other members of the team and on occasion on your own. _
- You will be expected to demonstrate the key characteristics of the job description and have a good knowledge and understanding of Health and Safety procedures, infection control and COSHH regulations._
- All our staff work hard to uphold our values and be ambassadors for the Hospice, this is especially important as you will be interacting with patients and visitors regularly as your daily work._

The main responsibilities include:

- Cleaning Floors, furniture and fittings and toilets.
- Thorough cleaning of rooms and equipment on discharge of a patient.
- Emptying and cleaning of waste bins and disposing of waste in line with hospice policies and procedures.
- Replenishing disposable items e.g hand towels, toilet rolls, soap, alcohol gel etc.
- Bed making is required in overnight stay suite.
- Maintaining own equipment and materials in a clean and tidy condition.
- Reporting faults in equipment or in the building fabric to the Estates team

To get full details on what the role includes please read the attached Job Description, call the recruiting manager for an informal chat and come and visit us.

**About you**:

- _Excellent communicator and good team working skills._
- _Highly motivated individual._
- _Good organisational skills, able to prioritise workload._
- _Good interpersonal skills._
- _Ability to on own initative as well as part of a team._
- _Knowledge of cleaning practices._
- _Basic understanding of COSHH_

**About Ashgate**:
Ashgate Hospice is a registered charity that provides compassionate, specialist palliative and end of life care, free of charge, to patients with a life-limiting illness and their families across North Derbyshire. Our values are at the heart of everything we do at Ashgate. They are grounded in our commitment to being the best we can be for our patients and the people who are important to them, and for each other. We are compassionate. We are a team. We are respectful, open and inclusive.

We are proud of our Outstanding CQC rating and our recent RCN award-winning in-patient unit and have ambitious plans for high quality and sustainable patient care.

We’re committed to providing a happy, safe and supportive environment for all our people which is why nearly 4 out of 5 of our staff would recommend us as a place to work.

As a valued member of the team, you will have a wide range of training and development available to support your own personal, professional development, opening doors to new career pathways.

Please visit our website and social media accounts or listen to our podcast “The Life and Death Podcast” to get a feel for what it is like to be part of the Ashgate team and gain an understanding of the people we support.

Find out why our people think Ashgate Hospice is a special place to work.

Some of our current benefits include:

- A highly compassionate and supportive working environment
- A wide range of initiatives to support your wellbeing, and the time out to practice self-care
- A progressive approach to flexible working to help meet your and our needs
- Pension scheme with 7% employer contribution
- Total commitment to your learning and development
- Ample, free parking when working onsite
- Subsidised, onsite cafeteria

**What next**:
**Proposed interview date**:
As a healthcare provider, it is very important to us that our staff have the annual flu jab and are fully vaccinated against COVID 19. It is our expectation that all of our staff will have the vaccinations unless there are strong compelling reasons why not. We believe having the vaccination not only protects you but also helps us to keep our patients, staff and visitors safe.