Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly enthusiastic and motivated individual to join the Emergency Department as a Housekeeper. The hours are 37.5 hours worked per week.

Starlight Unit  provides care for a large number of  paediatric patients and is a busy, demanding and exciting service. As a member of the Multi-Disciplinary Team you will be required to provide skilled, flexible support to the Nursing staff across all duties as prescribed by trained staff, in accordance with Trust policies and Guidelines. You will be required to give comprehensive and clinical support to staff in delivering high standards of patient care.

As a Housekeeper you support the senior nursing team by ensuring the ward is clean, safe, comfortable and conductive to patient care, this is beneficial for both patients and their visitors.
This is a busy, physically active role which requires excellent communication , interpersonal skills & IT skills. If you are highly motivated, work well within a team environment and hold the essential skills and experience please apply and join our successful organisation.

Main duties of the job

• You will  assist in catering for patients, ensuring that their individual nutritional needs are met.
• Liaise with other departments as appropriate.
• Support ward accreditation and audit
• Ensure all defects are logged via the appropriate Help Desk.  Report, record, and signed off once completed.
• Ensure any all essential and non-medical equipment is in a clean condition and available for use.
• Ordering of equipment and uniforms 
• Under taking audits such as room temperature recording and fridge temperature recordings on a daily basis. 

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

 At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.