# Domestic Assistant - Rapid Response > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/domestic-assistant-rapid-response/d4c8eb58-263e-4d70-8102-306e602ea019 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/domestic-assistant-rapid-response/d4c8eb58-263e-4d70-8102-306e602ea019.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Royal Liverpool University Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Domestic assistant - **Grade:** Band 2 - **Salary:** £25,272 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent: Mon-Fri 2pm-10pm - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-02T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-18T14:31:20.455Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Merseyside/Liverpool/Liverpool_University_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Estates/Estates-v8297602 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8297602?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Other **Essential** - Willingness and ability to undertake further training as necessary ### Skills **Essential** - Ability to work on own initiative - Communication skills - Basic numeracy and literacy skills - Ability to work as part of a team ### Knowledge **Essential** - A general understanding of why cleanliness in a patient/healthcare environment is important - Health and safety basic knowledge ### Experience **Essential** - Previous Domestic experience **Desirable** - Previous healthcare environment experience - Previous use of cleaning machinery, floor polishing machinery - Knowledge of colour coding systems ### Qualifications **Essential** - GCSE/equivalent ## Documents - [jd (pdf, 623.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10627525) - [risk id (pdf, 344.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10620421) - [life at luhft benefits (pdf, 333.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2664) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.