Housekeeper AMU

Job summary

Working Full time: hours per week

An exciting new post is now available for a band 2 Housekeeper to work alongside our established housekeeper in the Acute Medical unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be required to carry out various tasks such as monitoring and supporting patients with their menu choices, liaising with nurses, and other multi disciplinary team members in the unit, ensuring patients are provided with supplies as needed, daily and weekly stock checking and maintaining equipment and dealing with maintenance issues. The post holder will be responsible for generally keeping the AMU environment in a tidy, uncluttered and safe state at all times.

The successful candidate will have excellent communication skills as part of the role will be making and receiving telephone calls. The post holder must have the ability to work autonomously and as part of a team.

A positive and enthusiastic attitude is essential, experience as a housekeeper is desirable.

Being a key member of the AMU team A friendly and supportive working environment Excellent holiday entitlements 27 days + bank holidays rising to 33 after 10 years' service (pro rata) Competitive pension scheme Staff support, health and wellbeing opportunities & other employee benefits

This post will require weekend work.

About us

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:

The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.

The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000. This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.

The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.

Job description

Job responsibilities

See Job Description for further details.

Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £23 (standard) or £43 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first three months of employment.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies.

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

Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.

Good luck with your application.

Person Specification

Qualifications & Experience

Essential

Previous work / life experience requiring involvement with the public setting

Desirable

Basic understanding of NHS issues Basic IT skills An understanding of Organisation of nursing care

Skills

Essential

Ability to communicate in a variety of settings with patients/relatives and others of varying levels of understanding Ability to develop effective interpersonal relationships with colleagues in the health care setting. Able to deal with sensitive issues with tact and diplomacy.

Desirable

Able to develop skills to organise and prioritise own workload.

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