Housekeeper Cottingham, East Midlands, England
Job description
Housekeeper for the Breast Unit and the Breast/Ent/Plastics Theatres
The post holder will support the delivery of theatre services in the centenary theatres at Castle Hill Hospital by ensuring an efficient and cost effective system of stock control, procurement, instrument management and the maintenance of a clean, safe and well maintained environment.
This post will be 30 hours per week in the theatre environment, there are 3 theatres in this building undertaking surgery for breast, plastics and ENT.
The remaining 7.5 hours will be working in the breast care unit at Castle Hill. This service undertakes daily clinics, breast screening and nurse led services. The housekeeper role here will be to ensure efficient system and stock control is maintained in a clean, safe and well maintained environment.
In both areas you will work closely with the clinical team to improve productivity and achieve the theatre and breast unit key performance indicators such as reduction in delays, cancellations, and efficiency savings.
You will be expected to organize your own workload within the constraints of defined deadlines.
As this is a job across both areas we would welcome any informal visits, telephone or email discussions should you have any further questions. We are happy to facilitate walk rounds either area also.
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust strongly encourages new starters to have the Covid-19 vaccine. However, it is not a mandatory requirement to work for us.
HUTH has two main sites: Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital with an annual budget of approximately £800 million. The Trust employs around 11,000 staff and serves an extended population of 1.25 million, delivering a number of outpatient services from locations across the area.
The Trust’s secondary care service portfolio is comprehensive, covering the major medical and surgical specialties, routine and specialist diagnostic services and other clinical support services. These services are provided primarily to a catchment population of approximately 600,000 in the Hull and East Riding of Yorkshire area.
HUTH provides specialist and tertiary services to a population of 1.25 million extending from Scarborough in North Yorkshire to Grimsby and Scunthorpe in North East and North Lincolnshire respectively.
For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
