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Our friendly Estates and Facilities Team in Canterbury is seeking a part-time Domestic Assistant, apply now and kickstart your career in the NHS.
We are seeking a Domestic Assistant who has the determination, and valuable skills required, to ensure our hygiene standards are met in line with New NHS Cleaning Guidelines.
This post is for 15 hours per week, which is worked between the hours of Monday - Sunday 16.00 - 19.00, days to be discussed
Here are some clips of our Facilities staff, speaking about their role and why they enjoy working for KMPT.
Facilities Team Leader: https://youtu.be/N3KWBGBqdGc?si=B6mYiMb1fLa8c0NI
Domestic Assistant: https://youtu.be/GtLEYNjkmJk?si=03GNYY661AaPVSWX
Canterbury site tour (youtube.com)
Responsibilities
• Complete the daily shift plan in the agreed time scale, ensuring cleanliness and hygiene standards are met in line with New NHS Cleaning Guidelines.
• Complete weekly departmental performance monitoring, to achieve and maintain the Trust’s own standards.
• Maintain a patient-focused service across clinical areas.
• Undertake general cleaning and other related domestic tasks to a high standard, within a designated area and manage own task schedules.
• Maintain a high standard of provision of other Domestic Assistant related tasks.
• Work as part of the team in conjunction with ward managers on all aspects of ward cleaning and hygiene.
• Ensure waste is disposed of in accordance with the Trust waste disposal policy, assuring Health and Safety standards are adhered to.
• Removal of rubbish to designated collection points
• Attend appropriate training sessions not necessarily held at the place of work and at times not rostered to work.
• To undertake other duties and tasks at the discretion of the supervisor, Hotel Services Manager, or Service Manager.
• Cleaning inpatient wards, bedrooms, toilets, and reception areas, Younger and older Adult Inpatient wards, and office areas
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.
Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.
We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Our strategy
Our mission is what we set out to do every day
We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people
Our vision is where we want to be in the future
To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
• To maintain a patient-focused Hotel Services function across clinical and non-clinical areas.
• To undertake general cleaning and other related domestic tasks to a high standard within a designated area as requested and manage their own task schedules.
• To maintain a high standard of provision of other Hotel Services related tasks.
• To work as part of the Hotel Services team in conjunction with ward managers on all aspects of cleaning and hygiene.
Please see the job description for full details.
Benefits
● Annual leave allowance starting at 27 days per year (when working full time) + Bank Holiday’s.
● Access to the fantastic NHS pension scheme.
● Eligibility for the Blue Light Card (discount service for the NHS, providing members with thousands of amazing discounts online and on the high street).
● Realistic flexible working options.
This advert closes on Tuesday 19 Nov 2024