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Job requirements
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Essential
9 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Any previous cleaning experience is welcome but we will train you fully if you don’t have any experience (it is an essential requirement of this job to either have experience or be willing to learn
- Skills & Knowledge
An ability to lift and move a variety of equipment such as trolleys, floor polishing equipment and hoovers
- Skills & Knowledge
Ability to adhere to standards and procedures and to accept and prioritise instructions
- Skills & Knowledge
An ability to be flexible and able to adapt to new or different working practices, or work in other departments to meet the needs of the service
- Skills & Knowledge
An ability to communicate well with others such as other colleagues, clinical staff, or patients
- Skills & Knowledge
Able to work well as part of a team but also to work unsupervised
- Skills & Knowledge
Able to work alongside patients who might display challenging or upsetting behaviour
- Skills & Knowledge
You will need to be able to meet the mobility requirements of the job
- Education & Qualifications
In order to follow safety notices and work with cleaning products you will need basic levels of literacy and numeracy (this is an essential requirement of this job)
Desirable
Not listed in the available specification.
Job overview
Our team of Domestics keep our buildings clean and tidy and provide a great service to patients, visitors and staff. You could be cleaning a hospital ward, patient bedroom or office areas and corridors. Because we provide services to the NHS your work supports better patient care. It’s important work and you will need to take pride in what you do and complete tasks to a high standard. If you are on a hospital ward you will be working alongside patients who have mental health illness, learning disabilities or brain injuries. You could be cleaning their rooms and the shared areas on the ward and you will get to know them and the clinical staff and you’ll feel part of the team. It can be a real challenge working on wards like these but we also know that our staff find it rewarding.
Main duties of the job
Carrying out a range of cleaning tasks in areas such as offices and meeting rooms, public areas such as corridors, receptions and cafés areas which patients use such as shared spaces on wards as well as bedrooms, bathrooms and toilets. Cleaning tasks can include things like dusting of walls, ceilings and curtain rails, dusting and polishing of furniture and paintwork, hoovering of carpets. mopping floors.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please find attached job description for full details.
Pay: Band A (£12.92 per hour)
We pay 25% enhancement, time and a quarter, on hours worked during a Saturday and Sunday.
We welcome your application.
Please note that all jobs will be appointed on the NTW Solutions Limited terms and conditions (not NHS/A4C terms).
If you currently work for NTW Solutions on AfC terms and conditions, you will be given the choice to retain these or move onto NTW Solutions terms and conditions. Please note that the above advertised salary will not apply if you choose to remain on AfC. Anyone currently paying into the NHS Pension scheme will be able to retain this.
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 with NTW Solutions Limited in Newcastle Upon Tyne. It is listed as a Domestic assistant role. The advertised salary is £25,272 per annum pro rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 21 Sep 2026.
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