Housekeeper

Job summary

Here at LPFT, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.We employ around 2,700 staff who are pivotal in our success.

Do you want to join a Trust rated by our own staff as one of the best mental health trusts in England, located in a county heralded as a fantastic place to live and work?

Join our team as a Housekeeper and play a vital role in supporting excellent patient care within out exciting, purpose-built new inpatient ward opening soon.

This is a fantastic opportunity to help shape a fresh modern environment designed to enhnace comfort, safety and wellbeing for patients and staff alike.

You'll take pride in maintaining high standards of cleanliness, ensuring rooms and communal areas are welcoming, hygienic, and ready for use.

Working closely with clinical and support colleagues, you'll contribute to a smooth running service where attention to detail and a positive can do attitude makes a real difference every day.

If you are a reliable, motivated and passionate about creating a high quality experience for others, we'd love to hear from you.

Due to the UKVI immigration changes we are no longer able to offer sponsorship for this role. Please provide details of the visa type and expiry date in your application. Failure to provide the required information will result in your application being rejected.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for friendly, reliable and hard-working candidates who will be flexible and organised with good interpersonal and communication skills.

This role will include supervising a small team of housekeepers and supporting the provision of good-quality, safe catering and cleanliness.

All general housekeeping duties will be required within a mental health inpatient environment to set procedures and to ensure the cleanliness of a hospital environment is maintained to a high standard in accordance with CoSHH, Health and Safety and Infection Control measures in place. This will additionally include the support and serving of patient mealtimes; therefore, direct patient contact will be required.

You will be a team player and have the ability to use your initiative to prioritise and organise daily duties whilst maintaining the Trust Values.

The unit is operational 7 days a week; therefore, flexibility around weekend and bank holiday coverwill be required to ensure that we have sufficient housekeeping services at all times.

Full-time and part-time positions are considered, with shifts covering throughout the day.

If you have experience of being able to deliver cleaning to a high standard and enjoy working as part of a team, then this could be the role for you. We are committed to supporting you to become the best version of yourself.

About us

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.