Support Services Assistant

We require a caring and enthusiastic individual to work full time as a Support Services Assistant within the Domestic Team.

This is a 30 hour post working over a 7 day period, working alternate weekends and Bank Holidays as they fall.

This post is Fixed Term for 6 months

This post will be based at Breconshire War Memorial Hospital, but there will be the expectation, when required, to clean in other sites within Powys..

You will need to be self-motivated, have a flexible approach to work, able to work as part of a team and have the ability to work on your own initiative’

Previous experience is an advantage, but not essential, as full training will be given.

We require a caring and enthusiastic individual to work full time as a Support Services Assistant within the Domestic Team.

This is a 30 hour post working over a 7 day period, working alternate weekends and Bank Holidays as they fall.

This post is Fixed Term for 6 months

This post will be based at Breconshire War Memorial Hospital, but there will be the expectation, when required, to clean in other sites within Powys..

You will need to be self-motivated, have a flexible approach to work, able to work as part of a team and have the ability to work on your own initiative’

Previous experience is an advantage, but not essential, as full training will be given.

Powys is cited as being a wonderful place to live and work. It is a rural health setting where you can personally and professionally grow and patients are truly at the heart of care provision. If you are an ambitious professional in search of job satisfaction that others can only dream about, prepare for a very pleasant surprise as Powys is the place to be. We are looking for staff who have energy, enthusiasm, commitment and drive and who are patient-centered. Whatever your career aspirations, we are committed to supporting and developing you.

Powys Teaching Health Board is responsible for meeting the health and wellbeing needs of the population of Powys. As a rural health board we have around 133,000 people living across an area that is a quarter of the land mass of Wales. Powys is the largest county in Wales with Snowdonia to the North and the Brecon Beacons to the South, the spectacular scenery is something to behold. Working in partnership, we commission and provide award-winning hospital, community, mental health and learning disability services, so our portfolio is varied and diverse. We are proud to offer patients an unrivalled level of care, not to mention a wide range of careers for professionals who want to make a real difference. If working for Powys Teaching Health Board is something that is of interest, we may have an opportunity just for you

POWYS TEACHING HEALTH BOARD

JOB DETAILS

**Job Title**:
Hotel Services Domestic Assistant

**Pay Band**:
2

**Hours of Work and Nature of Contract**:
To be completed on recruitment

**Service Group**:
Support Services

**Department**:
Support Services

**Base**:
To be completed on recruitment

ORGANISATIONAL ARRANGEMENTS

**Managerially Accountable to**:
Hotel Services Supervisor

**Professionally Accountable to**:
Assistant Director Health Safety & Support

Services

VALUES & BEHAVIOUR

Our Values and Behaviours are demonstrated through our ‘Health Care Strategy’ centred on the Needs of the Individual’ through Respect, Trust, Integrity, Working Together, Kindness and Caring and Fairness and Equality.

**JOB SUMMARY / PURPOSE**:
The Hotel Services Domestic Assistant is responsible to the Hotel Services Supervisor to undertake a range of housekeeping duties, which includes primarily the cleaning of elements within the wards and departments on sites as directed. To maintain a high standard of food hygiene in support of providing patient meals, snacks and beverages as directed. To carry out other relevant duties associated with the domestic service and periodically those as directed to support the wider Hotel Services Team e.g. catering or porter tasks.

DUTIES & RESPONSBILITIES

Liaise with the Hotel Services Supervisor on the areas allocated for cleaning, the replenishment and use of approved cleaning chemicals and consumables and any additional tasks for the day.

Liaise with the Nursing Staff regarding the priorities for the daily cleaning requirements, for the coordination of any deep cleans when required and to receive advice on areas that may have restricted access or require specific precautions during the cleaning process.

Collaborate and coordinate with colleagues to enable the clean to be carried out productively and efficiently, ensuring that all elements within a room are signed for on completion on the cleaning schedule.

Having received priorities for daily cleaning, organise your own work accordingly working from clean areas to dirty and highest areas to lowest.

Assist in the economic use of resources and advise on the maintenance of reasonable stock levels and participating in reordering process when directed.