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Job summary

Main area
Cleaning
Grade
Band 2
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time - 56.25 hours per week (2 vacancies, 1 x 08.00 to 14.00, Monday to Friday, 30 hours per week, 1 x 08.30 to 13.45, Monday to Friday, 26.25 hours per week)
Job ref
470-24-0008-COR
Employer
Isle of Wight NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
St Mary's Hospital
Town
Newport
Salary
£22,383 per annum/pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
05/07/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Isle of Wight NHS Trust logo

Cleanliness Assistant

Band 2

Job overview

We are recruiting for Cleanliness Assistants who wish to join #TeamIOWNHS. You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients receive quality and compassionate care and work with us to ensure the Trust continues its journey towards great people, great place.

Would you like to be part of a vital expanding team ensuring high standards of cleanliness are achieved for our patients, visitors, and staff? Do you want to go home at the end of your shift knowing you helped make your local hospital a great place to be cared for?

Our Cleanliness staff played an essential role in fighting the global pandemic and are responsible for cleaning all areas of the hospital site.

Contracts available:

1 x 08.00 to 14.00 Monday to Friday (30 hours per week)

1 x 08.30 to 13.45 Monday to Friday (26.25 hours per week)

Main duties of the job

The key purpose of the role is to provide a high-quality comprehensive cleanliness service, working to exceptionally high documented cleaning standards within Wards and Departments in a Hospital setting. To encompass specialist cleaning duties.

You will work alongside all service users and ensure that approved documented cleaning standards and frequencies are always maintained. Being prepared to work in any area across the Trust site.

We are passionate about providing excellent CARE, which is why our values are Compassion, Accountable, Respect and Everyone counts. Our mission is to make sure that our community is at the heart of everything we do and that we hold our values across all our services.

We are committed to endorsing inclusion, diversity and multiculturalism throughout out services and as such, our procedures and policies ensure that applicants are always treated fairly throughout the recruitment process.

Why not come and see for yourself the CARE we give to our patients and staff. Apply to be part of our team today.

 

Working for our organisation

We serve a population of approximately 150,000 residents, making the services we offer variable and personalised with a flexible approach to our service users.

Working for our Trust brings a variety of benefits, including an onsite day nursery, cycle-to-work scheme, discounts at local businesses and gyms, and the opportunity to hire Trusts beach hut in Ryde. We offer flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

The Isle of Wight is a unique and stunning gem located off the South Coast of England, a short ferry journey from Portsmouth and Southampton, with journey times taking from as little as 10 minutes. London can be reached in 90 minutes by rail from Southampton or Portsmouth. The island offers an amazing coastline with beautiful countryside, year-round events, festivals and award-winning attractions.

Our 2020-2025 strategy sets out to ensure that we continue to be a provider of excellent and compassionate care. As part of this strategy, we are proactively taking steps to ensure that we recruit and retain the highest quality of talent to provide CARE and we would welcome applications from under-represented groups to ensure our Trust is an inclusive and diverse employer.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To work alongside all service users and ensure that approved documented cleaning standards and frequencies are maintained at all times. Being prepared to work in any area across the Trust site.

To act as soon as possible in response to any request for Barrier Cleans.

To carry out Hydrogen Peroxide Vapour and Ultra Violet Light in the C Spectrum decontaminations on request (following approved training)

Completion of all relevant documentation.

Responsible for ensuring cleaning equipment and materials are properly used and kept spotlessly clean at all times. Report to Cleanliness Supervisor any cleaning equipment problems.

Liaison with Cleanliness Supervisors regarding cleaning equipment and cleanliness stock levels, to ensure sufficient cleaning materials are always available, check dates on items.

Any other duties and responsibilities determined by the Operational Cleaning Manager, within the parameters of the post.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Good basic education to GCSE level.

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of cleaning to a high standard in a similar setting.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Veteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldImproving working livesMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerStep into healthHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingArmed Forces Covenant

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Gayle Perryman
Job title
Cleaning & Linen Services Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01983 534153
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