Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Evening Housekeeper

The closing date is 29 July 2025

Job summary

This role is offered on a permanent basis. The hours are part-time, 18 hours per week.

Would you like to join our existing small and friendly housekeeping team atCirencester Hospital?

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.

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 as additional cleaning duties as required. 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

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.

Date posted

21 July 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 2

Salary

£24,465 a year per annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

327-25-614

Job locations

Cirencester Hospital

Tetbury Road

Cirencester

GL7 1UY

Job description

Job responsibilities

Ensure the cleanliness of the environment in accordance with the National Specification of Cleanliness 2007 or equivalent and to the agreed work schedules. The post holder will clean all areas of the site using a range of methods e.g. High dusting, damp dusting, vacuuming and mopping, in line with the NHS Cleaning Manual.

Be responsible for maintaining and replenishing stocks of consumable items used within the department, i.e.: paper hand towels, soap, in a safe and responsible manner.

Adhere to all aspects of Infection Control in all areas of work, including the use of colour coded equipment to ensure there is no spread of infection.

Follow local procedures for reporting areas cleaned and highlighting issues which have prevented duties being carried out.

Undertake enhanced cleaning duties under the direction of the Facilities Supervisor.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Ensure the cleanliness of the environment in accordance with the National Specification of Cleanliness 2007 or equivalent and to the agreed work schedules. The post holder will clean all areas of the site using a range of methods e.g. High dusting, damp dusting, vacuuming and mopping, in line with the NHS Cleaning Manual.

Be responsible for maintaining and replenishing stocks of consumable items used within the department, i.e.: paper hand towels, soap, in a safe and responsible manner.

Adhere to all aspects of Infection Control in all areas of work, including the use of colour coded equipment to ensure there is no spread of infection.

Follow local procedures for reporting areas cleaned and highlighting issues which have prevented duties being carried out.

Undertake enhanced cleaning duties under the direction of the Facilities Supervisor.

Person Specification

Skills & Attributes

Essential

Professional and caring attitude

Experience

Essential

Basic level of education
Previous experience of cleaning and catering duties within a similar working environment.

Desirable

NVQ Level 1 in Cleaning or equivalent
Level 2 Food Hygiene

Knowledge

Essential

Basic understanding of cleaning and catering procedures.

Desirable

Knowledge and understanding of COSHH, food hygiene and safe manual handling procedures

Person Specification

Skills & Attributes

Essential

Professional and caring attitude

Experience

Essential

Basic level of education
Previous experience of cleaning and catering duties within a similar working environment.

Desirable

NVQ Level 1 in Cleaning or equivalent
Level 2 Food Hygiene

Knowledge

Essential

Basic understanding of cleaning and catering procedures.

Desirable

Knowledge and understanding of COSHH, food hygiene and safe manual handling procedures

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

Cirencester Hospital

Tetbury Road

Cirencester

GL7 1UY

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

Cirencester Hospital

Tetbury Road

Cirencester

GL7 1UY

Employer's website

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