Clinical Housekeeper

Job overview

To work as a fully integrated member of the multi-disciplinary team in providing a safe and appropriate environment for patients and families.

To maintain an excellent standard of cleanliness and tidiness within the department environment, to ensure Infection Control cleaning is maintained, in partnership with the Facilities Team.

Terminal Cleaning of Medical equipment and Incubators and cots.

To ensure efficient organisation and provision of food and beverages for patients, if working in an area where patients eat and drink. Maintaining and documenting Refrigerator temperatures for medicine and specimen samples

To maintain stores and adequate stock levels of consumables, by completing the orders in a timely manner.

To support under direction, the ward activity to enable patient flow and capacity.

Main duties of the job

To work as part of the department team to ensure that an excellent standard of cleanliness and tidiness is maintained. This includes clinical areas, all medical equipment and additional equipment appropriate to the clinical place of work and as included in the ward cleaning schedules and room cleaning job plan.

To ensure that the patient bed spaces/rooms/theatre are cleaned daily and kept clean and tidy to ensure a safe environment, working with the nursing/midwifery staff, child/young person and family. This includes cleaning of bed spaces and rooms in between patients.

To ensure that all empty bed spaces are set up and ready for use at all times.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.

When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).

Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.