Domestic Assistant

Main area Estates and Facilities Grade NHS AfC: Band 2 Contract Permanent Hours

• Part time
• Flexible working

17.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday - 16:30 - 20:00) Job ref 302-26-E

Site Leigh Infirmary Town Leigh Salary £25,272 Per annum, Pro rata Salary period Yearly

Job overview

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust are currently recruiting for 2 x Domestic Assistants based at Leigh Infirmary.

Working 17.5 hours per week Monday to Friday - 16:30 - 20:00.

Main duties of the job

The post holder is responsible for carrying out specific cleaning and other related duties, following set procedure and standards to provide and maintain high standards of cleanliness throughout the hospital and designated wards or departments.

• General cleaning.
• Isolation cleaning.
• High and low dusting.
• Wet and dry mopping.
• Clean toilets, baths and washbasins.
• Emptying clinical and general waste bins and placing bags in designated areas.
• Scrubbing and buffing floors with mechanical machine.
• Carpet shampooing.
• Using chemicals and cleaning equipment responsibly and within health and safety guidelines.
• Maintaining staff and public safety through appropriate use of warning signage whilst cleaning.

Full training will be provided to the successful candidate.

Benefits

Good basic salary plus an attractive package of benefits which include:

• Excellent Pension & Life Assurance Package (over 20% employer contribution)
• Excellent annual leave entitlements 27 to 33 days per annum dependent upon service.
• Paid occupational maternity, paternity, and adoption leave dependent upon service.
• Training opportunities and eLearning resources.
• Health and wellbeing support.
• Career Progression opportunities within Estates & Facilities and the NHS.
• Access to salary sacrifice schemes for items such as lease vehicles and buy a bike schemes.
• NHS Discount schemes to access hundreds of discounts and savings from everything to High Street Stores to restaurants, family holidays and more.
• Long Service Awards.

Person specification Knowledge

• Understanding importance of cleaning within a Hospital environment
• Knowledge of using electrical cleaning equipment (vacuum, steam cleaner, buffer, floor scrubber -dryer, carpet cleaner)
• Understanding of Infection Control precautions (hand washing, colour coding, PPE, hygiene)
• Understanding of safe usage of chemicals (COSHH) and Health & Safety

Skills

• Basic literacy and numeracy required
• Knowledge / understanding of cleaning and domestic assistant role
• Ability to communicate effectively with a range of people and understand written and verbal communications
• Ability to organise & prioritise day to day tasks
• Ability to be flexible and adaptable to meet service needs, i.e. move area, work Bank Holidays
• Ability to use cleaning equipment, pull out beds to facilitate cleaning; handling refuse sacks; able to stand for long period of time
• Basic IT skills to enable completion of Trust e-learning and use software to book annual leave

Experience

• Experience of cleaning within healthcare environment
• Experience of working with public/customers

Qualifications

• No formal qualifications are required: an induction period, on the job instruction and additional training will be provided on infection control, COSHH, national cleaning standards, use of cleaning equipment/machinery and manual handling.
• NVQ Level 1 & 2 or other recognised cleaning qualifications

Additional

• Speak English to an appropriate standard relevant to their role, i.e. with confidence and accuracy, using correct sentence structures and vocabulary, and without hesitation.
• Flexible approach to working unsocial hours mobility across the Trust.

If you have problems applying, contact

Address Buckingham Row
Brick Kiln Lane
Wigan
WN1 1XX
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