Housekeeper

**Main area**- Housekeeper
- **Grade**
- NHS AfC: Band 3
- **Contract**
- Permanent
- **Hours**
- Part time - 17 hours per week (Hours to be worked over 7 day period - Monday to Sunday working either 4 x 1400-1800 with one earlier start or 3 x 1300-1830 shifts)
- **Job ref**
- 373-SMH2487- **Site**- Silk Ward, Macclesfield
- **Town**
- Macclesfield, Cheshire
- **Salary**
- pro rata
- **Closing**
- 28/11/2025 23:59
- **Interview date**
- 09/12/2025

**Job overview**:
Working across a 7 day period Mon-Sun (3x 5.5hr shifts 1300-1830 or 4 x4hrs shifts)

The post-holder will work as an integral part of the Ward team. You will be expected to be involved in enhancing the patient experience.

The housekeeper should relate to all care disciplines to ensure the provision of a high quality and safe environment for service users. This would include some cleaning and assisting with meal service and minor maintenance, together with any other specified tasks as identified by the Ward Management Team.

Shortlisting completed by 3rd December 2025.

**Main duties of the job**:
**OVERVIEW**

1. To assist in maintaining cleaning standards on the Ward, including specialist cleaning of surfaces and furnishings and check all jobs on the cleaning checklist are completed.

2. To ensure general and specialist equipment e.g. wheelchairs/hoists are cleaned as per cleaning policy and the batteries checked.

3. To ensure all areas of the Ward are maintained and are safe and tidy at all times.

4. To identify any problems with cleanliness and report to the Ward Manager.

5. To maintain a hygienic environment including communal areas and patients’ bedrooms / bathrooms.

6. To maintain complete confidentiality with regard to all patient issues.

7. To maintain upkeep of patient and ward areas.

**Working for our organisation**:
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership (CWP) provides health and care services for a population of over one million people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care, as well as the provision of three GP surgeries in Cheshire.

We employ around 4,500 staff across 73 sites and have services across Wirral and Cheshire, as well as Trafford, Warrington, Bolton, Halton and Liverpool.

Our aim is to help improve the lives of everyone in our communities, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We are rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission, with a Good rating overall.

All new starters will commence in post on one fixed start date each month, in line with our Prepare to Care (P2C) induction programme date. P2C offers up to 3 weeks training to support you to meet the induction / initial training requirements of the role.

Whether you are just starting out in your career or looking to use your existing skills and experience in a new role, you’ll find something to suit you at CWP.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
Please download a copy of the job description (see ‘documents to download’ section below) for full details of the main responsibilities for this role.

At CWP, our recruitment selection processes are based on both competence (see person specification for details) and values.

CWP recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust’s Values in their everyday life and we use a values-based approach in our interviews, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.

If you have a disability that meets the definition set out in the Equality Act 2010, and you can show that you meet the ‘essential’ criteria described in the person specification for an available position, please answer ‘YES’ to the question: ‘Do you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme?’

Please inform the team if you have any special support needs to be considered as part of the interview and selection processes.

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £16 per year applies.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.

**Person specification**:

- **Qualifications**:

- **Essential criteria**:

- NVQ Level 1 cleaning or equivalent experience.
- Care/hospitality supervision and cleaning, equivalent experience.
- Basic Food Hygiene.
- Working towards/a requirement/willingness to achieve relevant NVQ’s up to level 3 through training and ward induction.-
- **Desirable criteria**:

- NVQ Level 2 in cleaning.
- NVQ Level 2 in Care.
- Food Hygiene Certificate.

**Knowledge and Expertise**:

- **Essential criteria**:

- Good basic knowledge of Microsoft Office packages.
- Basic knowledge of Health and Safety. Including infection control.
- Customer service, internal and external.
- Communicate effectively with patients, their families and carers.
- Work effectively in teams, appreciating the roles of other staff