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Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
9 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Other
Willingness and ability to undertake further training as necessary
- Skills
Ability to work on own initiative
- Skills
Communication skills
- Skills
Basic numeracy and literacy skills
- Skills
Ability to work as part of a team
- Knowledge
A general understanding of why cleanliness in a patient/healthcare environment is important
- Knowledge
Health and safety basic knowledge
- Experience
Previous Domestic experience
- Qualifications
GCSE/equivalent
Desirable
3 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Previous healthcare environment experience
- Experience
Previous use of cleaning machinery, floor polishing machinery
- Experience
Knowledge of colour coding systems
Job overview
The role as Rapid is to be fully flexible and able to work in any part of the hospital including theatres, delivery suite, corridors any where at all in the hospital. A Rapid is the person who covers AL or sickness and so will need to be happy not being based in one place for long.
Main duties of the job
- Cleaning wards, clinics, theatres and offices to National cleaning standards
- Adhering to infection control policy's and procedures
- Utilising cleaning equipment safely and ensuring deep cleans are completed timely and thoroughly.
- Changing curtains as and when required
- Careful use of UV machine for deep cleans
- Using handheld device for reporting of jobs and tablet for machines
- Safely using ladders and transporting of equipment around the hospital
- Cleaning includes public areas, toilets, bathrooms, staff rooms
- Completing periodic (Deep cleaning) tasks
- Duties include mopping, hoovering, damp dusting, tap cleaning amongst other tasks
- Following on the job training instructions and ensuring compliance of manual handling polices
- Adhering to all Health & Safety procedures
- Using cleaning machinery as required as per training
- Cleaning experience essential for all posts
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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.
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This advert is for Domestic Assistant - Rapid Response with Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Liverpool, England. It is listed as a Band 2 Domestic assistant role. The advertised salary is £25,272 per annum. The contract type is Permanent: Mon-Fri 2pm-10pm. The application deadline is 02 Oct 2026.
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