Housekeeper

An exciting opportunity has opened up for an enthusiastic and hard working Housekeeper to join the team at Leicester Royal Infirmary, Children's Cardiac Ward. A Housekeeper is reasonable for ensuring patient service and the clinical environment is managed and maintained to appropriate standards. To maintain a high standard of cleanliness without direct supervision, ensuring that food hygiene and Infection Prevention standards are adhered to at all times. To support the Ward/Department Staff in the smooth running of their area and come into contact with patients. The post holder will be instrumental in ensuring patients nutritional requirements are met. The post holder is required to use their initiative and take responsibility for themselves and the quality of their work and the service they provide to patients and families.

Ward 1 at the Leicester Royal Infirmary is looking for a motivated housekeeper who is compassionate and child friendly. This is a busy fast paced environment, and we are looking for a housekeeper who can work flexibly to cover a range of shifts within the week and over weekends. As a valuable member of the team you will be responsible for assisting in maintaining a high standard of patient care and maintaining excellence standards of ward cleanliness.

Experience in the care setting would be desirable but not essential. We are looking for an enthusiastic individual who is hard working with good communication and organisational skills. Applicants must be committed to providing high standards of compassionate care to the patients and their families or carers.

You will ensure the clinical environment is maintained to the appropriate standards. You will be instrumental in ensuring patients nutritional requirements are met.

You should also have a positive attitude to change and be flexible. If you think you have the personality, motivation to join our team, this may be the opportunity you have been waiting for.

Working hours will be 6.5 hour shifts to be worked on weekdays or weekends.

We are one of the biggest and busiest NHS trusts in the country, incorporating the General, Glenfield and Royal Infirmary hospitals. We have our very own Children’s Hospital and run one of the country’s leading heart centres.

Our team is made up of more than 17,000 staff providing a range of services primarily for the one million residents of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

We work with partners at the University of Leicester and De Montfort University providing world-class teaching to nurture and develop the next generation of doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals, many of whom go on to spend their working lives with us.

Our purpose is to provide ‘Caring at its best’ and our staff have helped us create a set of values that embody who we are and what we’re here to do. They are:

- We focus on what matters most
- We treat others how we would like to be treated
- We are passionate and creative in our work
- We do what we say we are going to do
- We are one team and we are best when we work together

Our patients are at the heart of all we do and we believe that ‘Caring at its best’ is not just about the treatments and services we provide, but about giving our patients the best possible experience.

**About the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust**: (leicestershospitals.nhs.uk)

To act as Housekeeper, ensuring patient service and the clinical environment is managed and maintained to appropriate standards. To maintain a high standard of cleanliness without direct supervision. To support the Ward/Department Staff in the smooth running of their area and come into contact with patients. The post holder will be instrumental in ensuring patients nutritional requirements are met. The post holder is required to use their initiative and take responsibility for themselves and the quality of their work and the service they provide to patients.