PICU Housekeeper

Job overview

To ensure an excellent standard of cleanliness and tidiness within the PICU department environment, to ensure Infection Control cleaning is maintained. To ensure efficient organisation and provision of food and beverages for patients. To maintain stores and adequate stock levels. To support under direction, the ward activity to enable patient flow and capacity. To work a flexible working pattern to meet service need.

Main duties of the job

To work as part of the department team to ensure that an excellent standard of cleanliness and tidiness is maintained.  This includes clinical areas, bed spaces, family areas and rest areas.

To maintain open pathways of communication with facilities assistants.

To liaise with the appropriate staff to ensure that the schedule of cleaning is maintained to meet the standards within the department.

To ensure that the patient bed spaces are cleaned daily and kept clean and tidy to ensure a safe environment, working with the nursing staff, child/young person, and family.  This includes cleaning of bed spaces in between patients.

To ensure that all empty bed spaces are always ready for use.

To ensure that, following discharge, all individual patient items within the bed space will be removed, cleaned, or disposed of as necessary and essential equipment replaced.

To collect/deliver specimens to and from other departments as required.

To collect blood products from central blood bank and satellite fridges and ensure that blood collection training is kept in date.

Assist breast feeding mothers, providing support, advice, and practical help in expressing milk (if appropriately trained).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.

When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).

Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.