Job summary
Fixed term contract (12-month maternity leave cover)
We are looking for an enthusiastic and hardworking individual, to join our team as a Senior Housekeeper based on the Haematology Ward, Churchill Hospital, Oxford. We care for patients with blood disorders, requiring chemotherapy and other supportive treatments.
The postholder will work as an integral part of the Ward team ensuring a high-quality service to patients and to provide a service that ensures that the patients' needs are satisfied, and Ward requirements are met.
Please contact Monica Jefferson (monica.jefferson@ouh.nhs.uk) for more information or to arrange an informal visit.
Main duties of the job
To assist the Senior Team Leaders to ensure the appropriate and effective delivery of facilities services in order to properly maintain the patient environment.
To supervise the Ward housekeepers, ensuring that all non-clinical aspects of the patient's comfort are attended to.
To supervise an effective waste segregation and disposal service ensuring compliance with all relevant procedures and legislation.
To support the catering department and nutritional assistant as required.
About us
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.
We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence, and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
In 2023NHS England launched its first sexual safety charter, and our Trust proudly signed it. We pledge zero tolerance for inappropriate sexual behaviour and commit to the ten core principles
Oxford University Hospitals promotes a safe, respectful hiring environment.
If you want to make a difference with us, come and join our team. Together, we will uphold the highest standards of care and professionalism.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Key responsibilities include:
- To liaise with the cleaning contractor/in-house housekeeping services/Monitoring Officers to ensure that cleaning standards on the Wards meet the agreed specification and any unsatisfactory areas are rectified.
- To provide supervision and guidance to domestic staff to ensure that standards and policies are met.
- To liaise with the nursing and housekeeping team regarding the patients day, ensuring that work is planned in the most appropriate way to provide a patient focused and seamless service.
- To ensure, in conjunction with the Ward co-ordinator, that patients are provided with appropriate beverages at regular intervals throughout the day. To make and serve beverages to relatives as instructed by the nursing staff and to ensure that patients have the necessary access to beverages throughout their stay in hospital.
- To establish a programme for the planned changing of curtains in bays, side rooms and windows, ensuring that spares are available. Support with changing curtains on an ad-hoc basis as required.
- In conjunction with Clinical Team, to ensure that patients cupboards, tables and chairs are clean and free of litter at all times.
- To ensure that all alcohol gel dispensers, paper towels and soap for hand hygiene are replenished, thus contributing to the prevention of cross-infection from one patient to another.
- To clean medical equipment as required in conjunction with Clinical Team. Ensure that all patient equipment is kept clean and in a usable condition. To monitor servicing of equipment (i.e. hoists, blood scanners)
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Key responsibilities include:
- To liaise with the cleaning contractor/in-house housekeeping services/Monitoring Officers to ensure that cleaning standards on the Wards meet the agreed specification and any unsatisfactory areas are rectified.
- To provide supervision and guidance to domestic staff to ensure that standards and policies are met.
- To liaise with the nursing and housekeeping team regarding the patients day, ensuring that work is planned in the most appropriate way to provide a patient focused and seamless service.
- To ensure, in conjunction with the Ward co-ordinator, that patients are provided with appropriate beverages at regular intervals throughout the day. To make and serve beverages to relatives as instructed by the nursing staff and to ensure that patients have the necessary access to beverages throughout their stay in hospital.
- To establish a programme for the planned changing of curtains in bays, side rooms and windows, ensuring that spares are available. Support with changing curtains on an ad-hoc basis as required.
- In conjunction with Clinical Team, to ensure that patients cupboards, tables and chairs are clean and free of litter at all times.
- To ensure that all alcohol gel dispensers, paper towels and soap for hand hygiene are replenished, thus contributing to the prevention of cross-infection from one patient to another.
- To clean medical equipment as required in conjunction with Clinical Team. Ensure that all patient equipment is kept clean and in a usable condition. To monitor servicing of equipment (i.e. hoists, blood scanners)
Person Specification
Attainments
Essential
- Experience working with people
Desirable
- Experience in the NHS
- Knowledge of COSHH/infection control policies
Occupational
Desirable
- Food hygiene/handling training
Personal qualities
Essential
- Good communication skills
Person Specification
Attainments
Essential
- Experience working with people
Desirable
- Experience in the NHS
- Knowledge of COSHH/infection control policies
Occupational
Desirable
- Food hygiene/handling training
Personal qualities
Essential
- Good communication skills
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).
