Bank Cleanliness Standards Auditor - Band 2

Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

Join our friendly team of Cleanliness Standards Auditors at the Royal United Hospital in Bath.

Your role will include daily audits of all areas of the hospital, feeding your results back to our Cleaning team and other important stakeholders.

You'll provide a vital service, helping to ensure that high standards of hospital cleanliness are maintained, improving patient safety.

Main duties of the job

The Cleanliness Standards Auditor monitors the performance of cleanliness standards in all areas of the hospital; this is based on National Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness 2021 (NSHC 2021) and under the direction of the Audit Manager. They'll support the Audit Manager with quality assurance, improvement processes, and strengthen stakeholder relationships.

In line with the NSHC 2021, the monitoring of cleaning standards will include cleaning responsibilities within the Cleaning Services, Nursing Teams and Estates Teams.

The role may also include the monitoring of catering food hygiene standards will include retail catering cleaning responsibilities, in line with our ISO 9001:2015 Quality Manual.

The role requires excellent communication skills, basic computer literacy, being comfortable with learning how to use the audit software, and able to adapt workload to unplanned changes.

About us

At the RUH we're proud to put people at the heart of what we do, working together as one team to make a difference for our patients, each other, and our community. No matter what your role is, we value everyone's contribution in supporting the exceptional, person-centred care we pride ourselves on.

We are committed to creating a compassionate and inclusive environment. This can be seen in our growing community of staff networks - celebrating successes and creating opportunities to listen and learn. We value our differences, champion kindness and civility, and truly believe that diversity makes us stronger.

A culture of learning, developing and innovating is the thread that runs throughout our whole organisation. We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential.

We value staff wellbeing, with a well-established programme of support. We believe in a holistic approach spanning all aspects of living a healthy life, including physical, emotional, spiritual and financial wellbeing. We've even got a pool!

We are committed to supporting you and hope you want to join our team. In the meantime, find out more aboutliving and working the beautiful historic city of Bath, learn about ourextensive package of staff benefits, and read about how we're providing healthcare fit for the future withthe landmark Dyson Cancer Centreand ourpassion for research.

Date posted

25 February 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 2

Salary

£23,615 a year per annum/pro rata

Contract

Bank

Working pattern

Flexible working

Reference number

427-7037147

Job locations

Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust

Combe Park

Bath

BA1 3NG


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please find attached detailed to the vacancy a person specification and job description for further information.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please find attached detailed to the vacancy a person specification and job description for further information.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • General education to GCSE level or equivalent

Desirable

  • Cleaning standards qualification BICS or NVQ Level 2 Food Hygiene Certificate

Knowledge

Essential

  • Competently use computers, Office software (Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook), Teams

Desirable

  • Previous healthcare experience in cleaning management
  • Experience of auditing/monitoring standards
  • Experience of using C4C (cloud-based) system, or electronic cleaning audit tool
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • General education to GCSE level or equivalent

Desirable

  • Cleaning standards qualification BICS or NVQ Level 2 Food Hygiene Certificate

Knowledge

Essential

  • Competently use computers, Office software (Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook), Teams

Desirable

  • Previous healthcare experience in cleaning management
  • Experience of auditing/monitoring standards
  • Experience of using C4C (cloud-based) system, or electronic cleaning audit tool

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

Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust

Combe Park

Bath

BA1 3NG


Employer's website

https://www.ruh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust

Combe Park

Bath

BA1 3NG


Employer's website

https://www.ruh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

For questions about the job, contact:

Facilities Audit and Compliance Manager

Sandra Bellows

sandra.bellows@nhs.net

Date posted

25 February 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 2

Salary

£23,615 a year per annum/pro rata

Contract

Bank

Working pattern

Flexible working

Reference number

427-7037147

Job locations

Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust

Combe Park

Bath

BA1 3NG


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