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Job description

• Are you able to work flexible hours?
• Can you provide a high-quality housekeeping service?
• Do you have previous cleaning experience?

If you answered yes, we’ve got the perfect role for you!

This is an exciting opportunity for highly motivated and professional housekeepers to be part of a team ensuring all our sites based at cleaned to a high standard.

Duties will include:

• Following a daily cleaning schedule as tasked by your line manager
• Be able to adapt to complete ad-hoc cleaning requirement
• Ensure cleaning stock is maintained
• Follow relevant hygiene, health and safety regulations

This is a flexi bank contract working adhoc hours

To work as part of Housekeeping team within a clinical / admin and social care bases. The post holder will be responsible for cleaning in line with the Medway Community Healthcare CIC and NHS National Standards for cleanliness undertaking general cleaning (including toilets and clinical areas) and related tasks to a high standard in line with NHS National Standards of cleanliness, following the guidelines as set out in the daily schedules. Duties will include opening and closing the building if required. Carry out stock control/monitoring/ordering self manage ESR training including logins and passwords, Manning reception on occasion to cover
shifts.

So what else?

• Successful candidates will be flexibility to work a variety of shifts offered, over days a week at different locations
• You will join an award-winning social enterprise
• Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important work life balance is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement

The small print

• We will always appoint the best person for the job, but applications are particularly welcome from candidates from BAME groups which are underrepresented in our service.
• We will offer you the choice of two pension schemes; the NHS Pension scheme and our Scottish Widows group personal pension.
• MCH encourages all staff to be double COVID vaccinated to protect themselves, their colleagues, their family and their patients.

Person specification

Criteria

Essential

Desirable

Qualifications

NVQ / CSE / GCSE in English and Maths or equivalent

NVQ Level 1 in Cleaning & Support Services

Experience

Previously worked in a health environment

Previous cleaning experience Experience of teamwork.

Special knowledge /

expertise

Ability to use appropriate machinery

Understands NHS colour code system.

Eg publication in appropriate

journals, etc

Disposition, adjustment, attitude and commitment

Good interpersonal skills

Flexible to cover the demands of the service

Ability to work as part of a team Ability to communicate well with members of the team and the public Flexible and adaptable

Attention to detail

Practical / intellectual skills

Can use initiative and clean areas not in one’s remit on any particular day

MCH values

Being caring and compassionateThe health and wellbeing of our patients and staff are my priority.

I show kindness and humanity.

I am inclusive and non-discriminatory.

Working in partnership

I ask for, respond to and offer feedback which improves the quality of our services.

I work effectively as part of my immediate team, the wider organisation and with external partners to achieve shared goals.

I take responsibility and ownership for my area of work and I meet and manage expectations.

Delivering quality and value

I raise my concerns and I am open and honest when things do not go well, learning from successes and mistakes. I make the most of resources and reduce waste and inefficiencies.

I seek out, share and actively participate in new ideas and ways of working.

These are the core values and

behaviours expected of all roles within

MCH and individual performance in relation to the values is assessed in your PDR. A full description is available

from your manager and the intranet.