Job summary
Housekeeping of the ward and will require great organizational skills You will require excellent communication skills as part of the role will involve liaising with patients and staff. The post holder will be required to carry out various tasks such as monitoring and supporting patients with their menu choices, liaising with dieticians, and other multi-disciplinary team members on the ward, ensuring patients are provided with supplies as needed, daily and weekly stock checking and maintaining equipment and dealing with maintenance issues.
Main duties of the job
The role is essentially overall housekeeping of the ward and will require great organizational skills You will require excellent communication skills as part of the role will involve liaising with parents/patients and staff. The post holder will be required to carry out various tasks such as monitoring and supporting patients with their menu choices, liaising with dieticians, and other multi-disciplinary team members on the ward, ensuring patients are provided with supplies as needed, daily and weekly stock checking and maintaining equipment and dealing with maintenance issues. The post holder must have the ability to work autonomously and as part of a team.
About us
North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is a medium sized District General Hospital based inEdmonton in Enfield, North London. We serve a diverse multicultural population largely from theLondon boroughs of Enfield and Haringey. Many of our patients live in wards that are within the 5%most deprived in the UK and a large proportion of our patients were born abroad. This makes it botha fascinating and a challenging hospital to work in.Over the last decade we have rebuilt almost all of the hospital and now have facilities that we areproud to work in. We employ over 3,500 staff, more than half of whom live locally. We encourageapprenticeships from the local community and work closely with our local Health Watch.We are primarily an emergency led hospital with more than 90% of our bed days being used forpatients admitted via our emergency and ambulatory units. As well as offering everything you wouldexpect from a major acute hospital we have a number of tertiary services treating patients with HIVand Sickle Cell Disease and a large cancer and radiotherapy service. We also run our local communitySexual Health Clinics.We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinicalcare. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George's University Grenada,and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities
Job description
Job responsibilities
To participate in providing a complete and safe catering service to meetthe patients meal and beverage requirements. This will includetemperature testing of meals and fridges.2. To monitor the cleaning duties in accordance with the schedules andprocedures of the area and take action to rectify any faults and this maymean undertaking emergency cleaning.3. To assist patients and visitors as requested.4. To ensure that there is sufficient clean linen available to meet the needsof the unit. This will include keeping the linen room tidy, and ensuringthat dirty linen is available for collection.5. To ensure that all empty beds are clean and ready for the next patient,this may entail the postholder making beds. The area surrounding thebed must also be checked, to ensure all the necessary items areavailable in the lockers for the next patient.6. To communicate effectively with patients and staff to ensure continuityof care.7. To record and action requests for maintenance and to monitor progressof jobs and report to the ward the situation.8. To undertake ward environment monthly Health and Safety audits andaction any faults.9. To assist in the movement and escort of patients as appropriate.10.To receive and check stores and store correctly taking into account theshelf life of all items.11.The postholder is responsible for taking reasonable care with regard tothemselves, colleagues, patients or visitors who might be affected byany act or failure to act by the postholder in accordance with the TrustHealth and Safety policies.12.These duties and responsibilities are neither exclusive nor exhaustiveand the postholder may be asked to carry out other duties andresponsibilities consistent with the grade of the post.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To participate in providing a complete and safe catering service to meetthe patients meal and beverage requirements. This will includetemperature testing of meals and fridges.2. To monitor the cleaning duties in accordance with the schedules andprocedures of the area and take action to rectify any faults and this maymean undertaking emergency cleaning.3. To assist patients and visitors as requested.4. To ensure that there is sufficient clean linen available to meet the needsof the unit. This will include keeping the linen room tidy, and ensuringthat dirty linen is available for collection.5. To ensure that all empty beds are clean and ready for the next patient,this may entail the postholder making beds. The area surrounding thebed must also be checked, to ensure all the necessary items areavailable in the lockers for the next patient.6. To communicate effectively with patients and staff to ensure continuityof care.7. To record and action requests for maintenance and to monitor progressof jobs and report to the ward the situation.8. To undertake ward environment monthly Health and Safety audits andaction any faults.9. To assist in the movement and escort of patients as appropriate.10.To receive and check stores and store correctly taking into account theshelf life of all items.11.The postholder is responsible for taking reasonable care with regard tothemselves, colleagues, patients or visitors who might be affected byany act or failure to act by the postholder in accordance with the TrustHealth and Safety policies.12.These duties and responsibilities are neither exclusive nor exhaustiveand the postholder may be asked to carry out other duties andresponsibilities consistent with the grade of the post.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Experience of caring for others
Desirable
- Previously worked in the NHS environment
Skills and Ability
Essential
- Numeracy and literacy
- Able to carry out tasks without supervision
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Able to communicate effectively
- Understand the need to maintain confidentiality
Special Requirements
Essential
- Maybe required to work weekends and bank holidays.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Experience of caring for others
Desirable
- Previously worked in the NHS environment
Skills and Ability
Essential
- Numeracy and literacy
- Able to carry out tasks without supervision
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Able to communicate effectively
- Understand the need to maintain confidentiality
Special Requirements
Essential
- Maybe required to work weekends and bank holidays.
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.
