Job summary
Bed Turnaround Team Enhanced Cleaning
Division: Estates and Facilities
Care Group: Soft FM
Band: 2
Salary: £23,615 per annum
The Bed Turnaround Specialist plays a crucial role in ensuring patient flow and infection control within the hospital. This role is responsible for allocating and managing bed cleaning and portering teams through theCare Coordination Centre, ensuring all bed spaces, including those requiring enhanced and deep decontamination, are turned around efficiently to meet NHS standards.
The BTT team is a specialised cleaning team trained to handle all levels of environmental decontamination across the hospital, from green to red cleans, including enhanced cleans, deep cleans, terminal cleans, and infection outbreak response cleans. The post holder will also ensure that all necessary protocols, COSHH, site Health & Safety, and infection control procedures are strictly followed.
Main duties of the job
The Bed Turnaround Specialist plays a vital role in ensuring efficient patient flow and infection control at Medway Maritime Hospital. The BTT team specialises in deep, enhanced, and terminal cleans, ensuring decontamination from green to red cleans using advanced UV light disinfection and COSHH-compliant chemicals.
Responsibilities include coordinating cleaning tasks via TeleTracking, liaising with clinical teams, and ensuring compliance with NHS infection prevention guidelines. The role requires monitoring KPIs, auditing cleaning standards, and addressing infection control breaches.
Additional duties include staff training, emergency response cleaning, and improving cleaning protocols. Strong communication, infection control knowledge, and leadership skills are essential.
Our values areBold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.
About us
Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of theBest of Care by the Best of People providing excellent care, every time?
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision is achieved for our patients.
As a key partner in the healthcare of our local population, we are keen to deliver this as an outcome of our Trust-wide strategy - Patient First. Using an Operational Excellence approach to align our priorities and operational management structures, we are just over a year and half into our Patient First deployment. We are looking for creative, skilled people to join our Transformation Team and further support us on this journey.
Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our BEST values underpin Patient First and are at the core of the care we give to our patients, the support we offer to our staff and our overall leadership approach:
B - Bold
E - Every person counts
S - Sharing and open
T - Together
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Being a cleaner at Medway Maritime Hospital is a demanding but essential role, directly impacting patient safety, infection control, and hospital efficiency. Cleaners are responsible for maintaining high hygiene standards across wards, theatres, and clinical areas, ensuring that all areas meet NHS cleaning regulations.
By maintaining high cleaning standards and rapid bed turnaround, this role directly contributes to patient safety and operational efficiency. The post holder must be able to work independently, prioritise effectively, and train staff to ensure best practices in infection prevention.
1. Routine & Deep Cleaning Responsibilities
- Daily cleaning of patient areas, waiting rooms, and staff facilities.
- Deep cleaning and decontamination of patient rooms, including infection risk zones.
- Safe use of chemicals, COSHH compliance, and infection control protocols.
2. Infection Prevention & Control
- Cleaning from green to red areas, including isolation rooms and high-risk zones.
- Using UV light and enhanced cleaning techniques to prevent hospital-acquired infections.
- Adhering to strict hand hygiene and PPE protocols to protect patients and staff.
3. Fast-Paced & Physically Demanding
- Handling urgent bed turnarounds to support patient flow.
- Cleaning in high-pressure environments such as A&E, intensive care, and operating theatres.
- Working long shifts, including nights and weekends, with constant movement.
4. Communication & Teamwork
- Working alongside nurses, doctors, and porters to ensure cleaning aligns with hospital needs.
- Responding to cleaning requests via hospital systems like TeleTracking.
- Attending regular training sessions on infection control, Health & Safety, and emergency cleaning protocols.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Being a cleaner at Medway Maritime Hospital is a demanding but essential role, directly impacting patient safety, infection control, and hospital efficiency. Cleaners are responsible for maintaining high hygiene standards across wards, theatres, and clinical areas, ensuring that all areas meet NHS cleaning regulations.
By maintaining high cleaning standards and rapid bed turnaround, this role directly contributes to patient safety and operational efficiency. The post holder must be able to work independently, prioritise effectively, and train staff to ensure best practices in infection prevention.
1. Routine & Deep Cleaning Responsibilities
- Daily cleaning of patient areas, waiting rooms, and staff facilities.
- Deep cleaning and decontamination of patient rooms, including infection risk zones.
- Safe use of chemicals, COSHH compliance, and infection control protocols.
2. Infection Prevention & Control
- Cleaning from green to red areas, including isolation rooms and high-risk zones.
- Using UV light and enhanced cleaning techniques to prevent hospital-acquired infections.
- Adhering to strict hand hygiene and PPE protocols to protect patients and staff.
3. Fast-Paced & Physically Demanding
- Handling urgent bed turnarounds to support patient flow.
- Cleaning in high-pressure environments such as A&E, intensive care, and operating theatres.
- Working long shifts, including nights and weekends, with constant movement.
4. Communication & Teamwork
- Working alongside nurses, doctors, and porters to ensure cleaning aligns with hospital needs.
- Responding to cleaning requests via hospital systems like TeleTracking.
- Attending regular training sessions on infection control, Health & Safety, and emergency cleaning protocols.
Person Specification
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent verbal and non-verbal communication skills
- Accuracy and attention to detail
- Polite and professional communications skills
- Office administration experience
- Competent in the use of computer base software packages
- Flexibility to organise and respond quickly to changes
- Ability to organise and prioritise own workload to meet deadlines/targets
Desirable
- Proven ability to multitask
- Experience of data information analysis and extraction
- Ability to make decisions regarding constantly
Qualifications
Essential
- Minimum grade 'C' GCSE English and Maths or equivalent.
- NVQ Level 3 or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Commitment to undertaking further course or study in Customer Care (NVQ) Level 3 or equivalent) NVQ Level 2/A Level or equivalent experience in Customer Care
Experience
Essential
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office
- At least 2 years customer service experience
Desirable
- Previous acute hospital NHS experience
Person Specification
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent verbal and non-verbal communication skills
- Accuracy and attention to detail
- Polite and professional communications skills
- Office administration experience
- Competent in the use of computer base software packages
- Flexibility to organise and respond quickly to changes
- Ability to organise and prioritise own workload to meet deadlines/targets
Desirable
- Proven ability to multitask
- Experience of data information analysis and extraction
- Ability to make decisions regarding constantly
Qualifications
Essential
- Minimum grade 'C' GCSE English and Maths or equivalent.
- NVQ Level 3 or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Commitment to undertaking further course or study in Customer Care (NVQ) Level 3 or equivalent) NVQ Level 2/A Level or equivalent experience in Customer Care
Experience
Essential
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office
- At least 2 years customer service experience
Desirable
- Previous acute hospital NHS experience
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
