# Part time Housekeeper / Cleaner - Witney Community Hospital > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/part-time-housekeeper-cleaner-witney-community-hospital/c7b72d25-cbdb-4e63-8f2f-970bd129e6ba - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/part-time-housekeeper-cleaner-witney-community-hospital/c7b72d25-cbdb-4e63-8f2f-970bd129e6ba.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Trust Headquarters, Littlemore Mental Health Centre - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Estates and facilities - **Grade:** Band 2 - **Salary:** £25,272 per annum | pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** 25 hours per week (Part- time) - **Closing date:** 2026-10-25T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-09T15:46:05.809Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Oxfordshire/Witney/Oxford_Health_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Estates_Facilities/Estates_Facilities-v8338470 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8338470?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are recruiting for a part-time (25 hours) Housekeeper / Cleaners to join our friendly, enthusiastic and dedicated team at Witney Community Hospital. This role enhances the patient experience by providing a high-quality cleaning and catering service. You'll be ensuring a clean, safe environment is maintained and provide catering provisions for clients, for which in-house training will be provided. The role involves shift working including late, early, alternative weekends, and bank holidays over a rolling rota, whereby weekend and banks holidays are paid at an enhanced rate. If you're a team player with a proven track record of being able to deliver a high-quality cleaning service, this could be the role for you, and we want to hear from you! Come meet the team: https://youtu.be/rJm_RjZdsRs ### Main duties of the job - Cleaning and maintaining the patient rooms, public areas, back of house areas such as linen room and laundry areas, according to Trust policy and procedures at a level that meets or exceeds National Cleanliness standards. - Plan own work in-line with the daily cleaning routines and cleaning tasks as per rota. - Carry out terminal and enhanced cleans as per local procedures - Participate in cleaning audits as necessary - Handle and remove waste in line with segregation processes and procedures - Unpack and stack all linen and laundry. - Regenerate cook/chill meals recording the temperatures of food at stages defined as appropriate within the relevant wards. Shifts consist of early and late shifts between the hours of 7am and 7pm. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application. The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview. We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their application. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values. ### 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 ### Skills **Essential** - Good communication skills. - Ability to communicate sensitively with people who have mental health concerns. - An understanding of the principles of delivering quality customer service. ### Knowledge **Essential** - Some knowledge of working with cleaning chemicals ### Qualifications **Essential** - Basic cleaning skills. **Desirable** - To demonstrate an interest in learning /further training. ## Documents - [housekeeper jd (pdf, 186.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10662386) - [job risks form (pdf, 416.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10662387) - [guidance notes for candidates applying for a job at ohft (pdf, 424.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2228) ## 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.