Senior Housekeeper | Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 05 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £22,816 - £24,336 pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 05 May 2024 |
| Location: | Oxford, OX3 9DU |
| Company: | Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6074012/321-NOTSS-6074012-B3 |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Part Time Senior Housekeeper to join Tom's Ward in the Children Hospital.
We are looking for an enthusiastic person with excellent organisational skills to join our team. The main focus of this role is to maintain a pleasant and welcoming environment for children and families by ensuring the unit is kept clean, tidy and well stocked. The role also involve helping the nursing team with the delivery of patient food and beverages.
If you are a highly motivated, compassionate, with a desire to progress and develop your skills within a superb environment we would welcome your application. We are very proud of our Children’s Hospital and services and would be very glad to show you around if you would like an informal visit.
The main duties of House keeper is to work as an integral part of the ward team ensuring a high quality service and environment to patients and liaise with other department such as cleaning coordinators, nursing team ,estate in doing so .
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Many of our recruitment programmes use Value Based Interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significant difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families. For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values
The main responsibilities of Housekeepers are:
• To work as an integral part of the Ward team ensuring a high quality service to patients and to provide a service that ensures that the patients’ needs are satisfied and Ward requirements are met.
• To assist the Ward Manager to ensure the appropriate and effective delivery of facilities services in order to properly maintain the patient environment.
• To supervise an effective waste segregation and disposal service ensuring compliance with all relevant procedures and legislation.
• To work effectively as part of the ward/department team
This advert closes on Friday 19 Apr 2024
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