# Catering Housekeeper - Hillingdon

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- **Town:** Uxbridge
- **Region:** London
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Estates and facilities
- **Grade:** Band 2
- **Salary:** £30,142 Per Annum pro rata
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Closing date:** 2026-07-29T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-15T09:51:51.686Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Hillingdon/The_Hillingdon_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Catering_Housekeeper/Catering_Housekeeper-v8079346
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8079346?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.thh.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Housekeeper

35 hours per week

Monday - Sunday 5 over 7

12 hours per week

Monday - Sunday 4 over 7

Flexible hours mix of early and late shifts

Job Overview:

Our Facilities department provide a range of support services across the Hospital including catering cleaning and housekeeping. These services help play a vital role in ensuring all areas of our hospital achieve excellent standards of cleanliness, catering and hygiene. We are now recruiting  housekeepers to join our friendly and professional team.

For this role you will need some previous experience of working in either a catering or housekeeping role as well as excellent communication (verbal and written) and customer service skills.  Basic food hygiene and COSHH knowledge is desirable but not essential. It is also important that you are able to work on your own initiative.

Please note that this vacancy may close early due to the amount of applications we receive.

### Main duties of the job

Our Housekeepers work on our hospital wards with responsibility for monitoring and maintaining our high standards of cleanliness and catering including:

- assisting patients with appropriate meal selections
- to serve patient meals, hot and cold beverages and snacks at scheduled intervals throughout the day and to respond to ad-hoc requirements.
- monitoring and maintaining ward kitchen cleanliness and ensuring its  clean and tidy at all times

To be responsible, where able, for ensuring that the patient’s individual needs are met and to work as an integral part of the ward team.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for a full list of role requirements and main responsibilities.

## Person Specification

### Person Spec

**Essential**

- Education and Qualifications
- Experience and Knowledge
- Skills and Ability

**Desirable**

- Basic Food hygiene or equivalent
- Experience working in a housekeeping environment for 12 Months or more

## Documents

- [person spec (pdf, 160.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10371330)
- [job description (pdf, 168.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10371329)
- [culture & values - cares behaviours (pdf, 155.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1043)

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