Housekeeper Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Housekeeper Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Employer: Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Location: St Helens, WA9 3DE

Pay: £25,272 per annum

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full time

Disability Confident: No

Closing Date: 04/07/2026

Overview

We are seeking an individual to join our inpatient mental health service in our Housekeeper role at Taylor Ward, Peasley Cross Hospital, St Helens.

As a Housekeeper under the supervision of the Registered Nurse and Nursing team you will support in ensuring a clean and safe environment where the individual needs of our service users are met in a timely and effective manner utilising best practice.

Working as part of the team, you will assist in maintaining a clean and therapeutic environment, ensuring supplies and equipment are ordered in a timely manner, monitoring and ensuring equipment is fit for purpose, as well as welcoming and greeting visitors to the ward.

You will enjoy working as part of a highly skilled and motivated team within a dynamic and busy environment to deliver excellent care.

Responsibilities

• Ordering supplies/equipment
• Monitoring and maintaining equipment
• Maintaining a clean and safe environment
• General housekeeping and admin duties
• Welcoming and greeting visitors to the ward
• Support an individual's equality, diversity and rights

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services.

Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care'

We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together.

We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles

Clinical

• Work collaboratively within the Care team to ensure that service user's needs are met
• Recognise and respond appropriately to urgent and emergency situations
• Report any concern regarding service user care to the Qualified Practitioner
• Support an individual's equality, diversity and rights

General

To ensure personal privacy, dignity and confidentiality is maintained at all times.

To assist with bed making, where appropriate, ensuring an adequate supply of linen is available at all times.

Liaise with domestic supervisor when deep cleaning is needed.

Ensure any items of broken or severely soiled furniture are reported to the Team Manager and collection and disposal arranged.

To receive and welcome visitors.

To respond to telephone calls in a courteous manner.

To receive and pass information to others, maintaining confidentiality.

To ensure cost effective use of resources.

To respond to patient concerns through communication with nursing staff.

To promote effective communication with patients, colleagues, other professionals and visitors to the trust.

Maintain a professional image at all times.

This advert closes on Tuesday 9 Jun 2026.

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