# Domestic Assistant

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Clifton House
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Estates and facilities
- **Grade:** Band 2
- **Salary:** £25,272 Per Annum Pro Rata
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-02T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-08-19T11:20:45.833Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/West_Yorkshire/Leeds/Leeds_York_Partnership_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Facilities_Services_Catering_Domestic/Facilities_Services_Catering_Domestic-v8240530
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8240530?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.leedsandyorkpft.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Leeds & York Partnership NHS Trust are seeking to recruit a Domestic Assistant on a full time basis, to join our soft services department with in the Estates & Facilities team in providing five star cleaning service across LYPFT trust premises. Estates & Facilities are a progressive and forward thinking department looking for a self-motivated Domestic Assistant.

### Main duties of the job

You will join a domestic team ensuring a clean & safe environment in line with the Cleaning Standards for our service users, colleagues and visitors, you would be required to on a 5 over 7 shifts which includes bank holidays and weekends.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder is responsible for providing a high standard of domestic service to patients, staff and visitors within Clinical/Non-Clinical departments, alone or as part of a team.

The Soft FM service is provided as part of the wider Estates and Facilities Directorate. The domestic Assistant works as part of a multi-disciplinary team, delivering a high standard of cleaning in areas of high activity with frequent change. Staff must be flexible, adaptable and work to support other staff, who have clinical responsibility to service users.

### 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

### Values

**Essential**

- Empathy with client group.

**Desirable**

- Tell us about a time when you spotted something small going wrong and did something to stop it becoming a bigger issue.
- Tell us about a time when you realised a colleague or someone you know needed a bit of support and you offered to help.
- Tell us about a time when you showed someone kindness or understanding.

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- Basic knowledge of C.O.S.H.H., health and safety and cleaning standards

### Experience

**Essential**

- Ability to work to set cleaning schedules
- Use of cleaning equipment and materials provided for the job
- Working as part of a team

## Documents

- [job description (pdf, 304.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10551347)
- [person specification (pdf, 456.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10551348)
- [reasonable adjustments (pdf, 296.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2928)
- [guide to values based recruitment (pdf, 498.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2929)

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