# Housekeeper

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Rikenel
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Estates and facilities
- **Grade:** Band 2
- **Salary:** £25,272 per annum, pro rata
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Part time - 15 hours per week (Monday to Friday  16:30- 19:30)
- **Closing date:** 2026-08-28T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-08-14T09:50:57.256Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Gloucestershire/Gloucester/Gloucestershire_Health_Care_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Facilities_Team/Facilities_Team-v8230322
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8230322?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.ghc.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

This role is offered on a permanent basis. The hours are part-time, 15 hours per week.

We have an opportunity for a Housekeeper to join our Facilities Team at Rikenel, Gloucester Locality.

If you are eager to learn and keen to deliver the highest standards, you could be the person we are looking for.

### Main duties of the job

As a Housekeeper you will help maintain a safe, clean environment for our patients & staff.

If you give us your time and commitment, we will give you all the training necessary to be a part of this great Team.

For an informal chat or site visit please call the Facilities Manager named on this vacancy.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

- Work as a member of the Estates & Facilities Team in all areas of the site. Housekeepers will be expected to demonstrate a flexible attitude to their work to meet the needs of the service.
- Maintains a high standard of hygiene and cleanliness, as defined within the National Specification of Cleanliness.

Please refer to the Additional Information attachment before submitting your application.

This role is not eligible for sponsorship as per the Government’s UK VISA and Immigration Rules and Regulations. For more information please visit https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas

### 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

### Decirable

**Essential**

- Previous experience of cleaning duties within a similar working environment

**Desirable**

- Previous experience of working in the NHS

### Desirable

**Essential**

- Good literacy skills

**Desirable**

- Knowledge and understanding of COSHH (TRAINING GIVEN)

## Documents

- [staff benefits - ghc (pdf, 618.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2522)
- [facilities assistant jd and ps (pdf, 320.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10540069)
- [additional information for applicants (pdf, 408.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2656)

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