Housekeeper -icu - Hereford, United Kingdom - Wye Valley NHS Trust

Wye Valley NHS Trust
Wye Valley NHS Trust
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Hereford, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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This is a great opportunity for you to join our team and be part of delivering excellent care to patients.

To meet the requirements of the new National Standards for Healthcare Cleaning, we are recruiting additional Housekeepers to ensure that our departments are maintained to the highest standards.


The role of Housekeeper is a vital member of the team ensuring that the ward/department is a pleasant, safe, welcoming and clean environment for patients, visitors and staff.


We are looking for individuals with excellent communication skills, have a high level of attention to detail, able to work independently and deliver against the cleaning and infection prevention standards.

You will receive training and be required to undertaken audits and process this into electronic documents. Therefore the ability to demonstrate functional IT skills is essential.
- to provide a comprehensive Housekeeping service to the ward environment ensuring consistent quality, efficiency and effectiveness of this service.
- to play a key role in assisting in the prevention and control of Healthcare Associated Infection.
- to maintain a welcoming and tidy environment for patients, staff and visitors.
- to ensure economical and safe use of supplies and equipment.
- to ensure close communication between Domestic Assistants and nursing colleagues in relation to cleaning issues.


Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT and the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust.


Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.


We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.


More than 3,000 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.


We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.


Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman:
"The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."

Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time all the time.

To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view 'supporting documents' linked to this vacancy.
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