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Parkside Frimley is a dedicated unit situated in the high achieving Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust. It comprises of en-suite rooms, an Outpatients Department and a Pre-Op Assessment Department. Diagnostic X-ray and physiotherapy services are available on site for our patients.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated and reliable individual with excellent attention to detail to join our Housekeeping team within Parkside at Frimley Park Hospital.

You must communicate effectively, be well organised, stay calm when under pressure and enjoy working as part of a team as well as being confident when working alone.

A positive attitude to private healthcare and a commitment to exceeding visitor’s expectations is essential.

Please note all shortlisted applicants will be required to sit a short English and Maths Test as part of the interview process.

Working every week Monday to Friday 17.5 hours per week.
The shift is working Monday to Friday 09.30 - 13.00 per day.

PURPOSE OF JOB:

• Deliver a high standard of service to all patients within the unit and ensure that CQC standards are adhered to.
• Be an ambassador for the Parkside Suite.
• Work flexibly to meet the needs of a changing workload and service.
• Maintain high standards of professionalism, maintaining confidentiality, treating patients, visitors and staff in a polite and considerate manner.
• Maintain high standards of cleanliness in order to reduce risk of infection ensuring cleaning schedules are adhered to.
• Ensure that Trust and CQC standards are adhered to.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our threecore values, and the behaviors that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other,Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical, and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.

KEY TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Vacuum/mop sweep/damp mop/spot clean/spray buffing of floor surfaces, using machinery as required.
• Vacuum carpeted areas, daily removal of spots or stains, and shampooing of carpets using machinery on housekeeping supervisor instruction.
• Collection and tagging of all rubbish, removing bags, clinical waste bins, sharps bins and flattened cardboard containers to designated collection points.
• Ensuring that waste is correctly segregated at the collection point, and placed into locked containers, as required by Trust policy.
• Replace bags on stands/containers, with the correct colour code, and ensure that containers are clean.
• Damp dust lockers, over-bed tables, chairs, beds, ledges, over-bed lights, pipes, radiators (remove cages as instructed) bed and locker wheels.
• Damp dust/polish desks, furniture, fittings at nurse station and in offices, day room, and any other ancillary rooms attached to the area.
• Damp clean all telephones.
• Clean baths, showers, and hand basins, polish all chromium fittings.
• Clean lavatories inside and outside of bowl. Clean seat, handle, cistern and surrounding area, including sanitary bin.
• Ensure that lavatory brushes and holders are thoroughly clean after use.
• Top up paper hand towel containers with appropriate consumables. Check and refill toilet roll containers. Check and refill hand soap, hand cream and hand gel dispensers. Ensure that all containers are clean inside and out.
• Clean and polish mirrors and glass on doors and partitions.
• Damp wipe light switches.
• Remove spots and splashes from paintwork on doors and walls.
• Assist with curtain changing.
• Infected rooms should be cleaned as instructed by ward sister/ housekeeping supervisor and following the procedure laid down in agreement with Infection Control.
• All cleaning equipment should be maintained in a clean and hygienic condition, and guidelines for correct storage of equipment and materials must be adhered to. Faulty electrical equipment must be removed from use, and reported to the ward charge nurse/ housekeeping supervisor immediately.
• A ‘follow up’ clean of surfaces contaminated by body fluid spillage will be carried out after the initial clean by nursing staff (see Trust policy on dealing with spillage).
• Patient privacy and confidentiality must be respected at all times.

This job description is an indication of the type and range of tasks that are expected of the post holder, and other duties may be required, in line with the role and the banding. It will be reviewed and amended from time to time in consultation with the post holder to take account of changing organisational need.