(Cleanliness Support Worker)

Job summary

The post holder will work together with members of the Nursing/Midwifery Team within the Accident and Emergency to contribute to the implementation of a high standard and individualised patient centered care under the direction of a registered nurse.

The post holder will communicate effectively with other members of the team, patients and relatives and recognise and report to the appropriate person changes in the patient's condition which may require the intervention of others.

The role involves equipment cleaning, re-stocking of essential clinical items, tidying equipment/treatment rooms together with other specified tasks to meet the patient's needs, as determined by the registered nurse.

The post holder will be required to work closely with the registered nurse, raising any issues regarding quality standards with the registered nurse.

Main duties of the job

1. To assist in the delivery of quality and safe care of patients is by ensuring the environment and equipment are clean and maintained in accordance with Infection Control and Medical Devices Policies and Guidelines.
2. To assist the team in meeting patient's basic hygiene needs by ensuring that patient equipment is clean in line with Infection Control Guidelines and stocks in ED are maintained.
3. To ensure the ward is adequately stocked up with PPE.
4. To ensure all store rooms, treatment rooms and the dirty utility, remain clean, tidy, organized and well stocked.
5. To assist the ward team in meeting patients' basic elimination needs by ensuring commodes and raised toilet seats etc., are clean and maintained in line with Infection Control and Medical Device policies and Guidelines. That all bathroom and toilet areas are clean and free from clutter.
6. To assist in fulfilling the patient's nutritional needs by serving meals, feeding patients, providing nutritional supplements as directed and monitoring dietary and fluid intake through the use and maintenance of fluid balance charts, food charts etc and recording patients weight as directed.
7. To ensure dirty linen is disposed of correctly in accordance to the correct Infection Control guidance.
8. To support the safe and effective process of barrier nursing by ensuring all safe practice and principles are adhered to.
9. To assist with bed-making and maintaining the general tidiness and cleanliness of the ward/dept.

About us

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust is an integrated Trust and the only provider of NHS acute care in Walsall, serving a population of 286,700, providing inpatient and outpatient services at the Manor Hospital as well as a wide range of services in the community. Walsall Manor houses the full range of district general hospital services under one roof. The £170 million development was completed in 2010 and the continued upgrading of existing areas ensures the Trust now has a state-of-the-art Critical Care Unit, Neonatal Unit, Obstetric Theatre, and Integrated Assessment Unit facilities. Work is also well underway on its multi-million pound new Urgent and Emergency Care Centre which will house a new Emergency Department (including Children's Emergency Department), co-located Paediatric Assessment Unit, Acute Medical Unit and Urgent Care Centre. This is scheduled for completion this year.

We would particularly welcome applications from people from a BME background and people with a disability as these groups are currently under-represented at senior level. We value diversity within our Trust and are working to achieve equality in our recruitment.

We support flexible working for all employees and prospective applicants.

Any settled workers meeting the requirements must be offered the position in preference to any non-resident candidates meeting the requirements, unless the role falls under a PhD-level code, in which case sponsorship may be attained.