Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Housekeeper - Berkeley House

The closing date is 06 July 2025

Job summary

Would you like to join our existing small and friendly housekeeping team atBerkeley House?

We are looking for someone to cover cleaning and catering across the hospital to ensure a welcoming, clean, and safe environment for our patients, their families and the wider team working on site.

The housekeeping role is an essential part of the day to day running of the hospital and ensures our patients and their families experience a high-quality service.

You'll be part of a great teamof housekeepers, supported bySupervisors and our Facilities Managers on site.

Main duties of the job

We pride ourselves on providing a clean environment for our patients and colleagues, this role involves carrying out the daily cleaning schedule as well asadditionalcleaning duties asrequired.

You will work alongside patients, colleagues and other visitors to our site; being professional and ensuring that you are working within the Trust Values.

This role also involves delivering patient meals and drinks on our inpatient wards.

A full induction and training as well as ongoing in-house supervision will be provided.

You will also receive:

  • 27 - 33 days paid holiday
  • Enhanced pay for unsocial hours
  • Free car Parking
  • Staff benefits scheme including staff lottery, Blue Light discount card

For an informal chat or site visit please call the Facilities Manager named on this vacancy.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

About us

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

  • 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
  • 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
  • 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.

Details

Date posted

25 June 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 2

Salary

£24,169 a year Per annum. Enhanced pay for weekend/Bank holiday working

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

327-25-520

Job locations

Berkeley House

Berkeley Close

Cashes Green, Stroud

GL5 4SA


Job description

Job responsibilities

The Housekeeping role is an essential part of the day to day running of the hospital and ensures our patients and their families experience a high-quality service.

If you are willing to learn and will give us your time and commitment, we will give you all the training necessary to be a part of this great team and contribute to the success of our community hospital.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The Housekeeping role is an essential part of the day to day running of the hospital and ensures our patients and their families experience a high-quality service.

If you are willing to learn and will give us your time and commitment, we will give you all the training necessary to be a part of this great team and contribute to the success of our community hospital.

Person Specification

LENGTH AND / OR NATURE OF EXPERIENCE

Essential

  • Previous experience of cleaning and catering duties within a similar working environment

PROFESSIONAL / MANAGERIAL / SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE

Essential

  • Basic understanding of cleaning and catering procedures

Desirable

  • Knowledge and understanding of COSHH (training will be given)
  • Knowledge and understanding of the importance of Food Hygiene
Person Specification

LENGTH AND / OR NATURE OF EXPERIENCE

Essential

  • Previous experience of cleaning and catering duties within a similar working environment

PROFESSIONAL / MANAGERIAL / SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE

Essential

  • Basic understanding of cleaning and catering procedures

Desirable

  • Knowledge and understanding of COSHH (training will be given)
  • Knowledge and understanding of the importance of Food Hygiene

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Berkeley House

Berkeley Close

Cashes Green, Stroud

GL5 4SA


Employer's website

https://www.ghc.nhs.uk/who-we-are/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Berkeley House

Berkeley Close

Cashes Green, Stroud

GL5 4SA


Employer's website

https://www.ghc.nhs.uk/who-we-are/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Facilities Manager

Amy Bennett

amy.bennett@ghc.nhs.uk

03004218870

Details

Date posted

25 June 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 2

Salary

£24,169 a year Per annum. Enhanced pay for weekend/Bank holiday working

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

327-25-520

Job locations

Berkeley House

Berkeley Close

Cashes Green, Stroud

GL5 4SA


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