Housekeeper Coronary Care | East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 15 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £22,383 pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 15 May 2024 |
| Location: | Blackburn, BB1 2HH |
| Company: | East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6161901/435-MEC-112-24 |
Summary
The main elements of the housekeeping role are to provide a clean, safe and comfortable environment for patients, visitors and staff.
Ensuring the department is clutter free, well stocked and the compliance of daily checklists is adhered to in all areas of the department to enable the team to provide quality care.
You should be comfortable working as part of a team and being directed, but equally may be expected to take the lead in some aspects.
Administration skills, IT literacy, prioritisation and organisational skills along with excellent communication skills are also essential for this role.
You will be an enthusiastic person, keen to build relationships across organisational boundaries to improve care for patients. You will be willing to work flexibly in a challenging operational environment, and have demonstrable experience of supporting service improvement. You must have exceptionally strong attention to detail and a willingness to work around the needs of the team and organisation.
• Ensuring that the ward is of a high standard of cleanliness in all areas and giving assistance when appropriate.
• Participate in ward audit to measure that standard are achieved.
• Cleaning of kitchen areas including appliances.
• Reporting any faults with fixtures and fittings and actively monitoring repairs and maintenance.
• Participate in the auditing of mattresses and report any concerns.
• Ensure ward linen is adequately stocked.
• General tidiness of all ward areas.
• Ordering of ward provisions via telephone, computer, and fax, ensuring that all stocks delivered to the ward are appropriately stored.
• Organise and participate with the feeding of patients, where appropriate.
• Collection of individual patient’s meals as required.
• Actively monitor all recording and reporting of diet and fluid intake and output of the patients.
• Liaise with dieticians and catering department to ensure quality choice to the individual patients.
• Assist patients when ordering from the menus and wherever possible arranging alternative to suit individual needs
• The management of all patient menu cards.
• Ordering and monitoring ward food supplies and making adjustments to requisitions as appropriate.
• Awareness of patients with swallowing difficulties and implement the planned care that trained staff have completed after assessment.
• Collection and distribution of water jugs.
• Distributing of hot beverages at times designated by ward area
At East Lancashire Hospitals Trust, our vision is to be widely recognised for providing safe, personal and effective care. We currently provide high quality services and treat over 600,000 people across East Lancashire and the surrounding area. We employ over 7,000 staff, many of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work.
TheCoronary Care Unit (CCU)is a 10-bedded high tech area who’s patient group is largely patients with acute cardiac problems. The patients are usually monitored by cardiac monitors and other support devices. The Nurse to patient ratio is at the recommended higher level to enable the staff to be more hands on with the patients; deal effectively with emergencies, and invest time in communication & education with patients.
It provides a 24hr service 7 days a week to the patients of East Lancashire.
We work closely with TheCardiology Ward (B18)which a 26 bedded ward is caring for inpatients following on from the Coronary Care Unit with the facility to telemetry monitor up to 8 patients. It also includes an ambulatory heart failure clinic to enable patients to receive IV diuretic therapy in order to prevent in-patient admissions.
This is a very exciting time for us as we are also in the process of developing a new Cardiology footprint in which Coronary Care, the Cardiac Ward and Cardiac Services will come together as a new unit .This is expected to be completed by May 2024.
• Maintain privacy and dignity for all patients at all times.
• Be responsible for maintaining high standards of nutritional intake to the individual need of the patient.
• Maintain the ward environment, ensuring high standards of cleanliness.
• Ensure all fixtures and fittings are in order.
• Organise and participate with the feeding of patients, where appropriate.
• Collection of individual patient’s meals as required.
• Actively monitor all recording and reporting of diet and fluid intake and output of the patients.
• Liaise with dieticians and catering department to ensure quality choice to the individual patients.
• Assist patients when ordering from the menus and wherever possible arranging alternative to suit individual needs
• The management of all patient menu cards.
• Ordering and monitoring ward food supplies and making adjustments to requisitions as appropriate.
• Awareness of patients with swallowing difficulties and implement the planned care that trained staff have completed after assessment.
• Collection and distribution of water jugs.
• Distributing of hot beverages at times designated by ward area
• Record accurately all patient interventions.
• Liaise effectively with all professionals, including Occupational Therapist, Speech Therapists, Dieticians, Nurses, Catering Staff, Hotel Services Staff, etc.
• Respect and maintain confidentiality.
• Assist in creating and maintaining a positive working relationship with the ward nursing team
• All involvement with patients, relatives or carers should be communicated to Senior nurse in charge
• Ensure patients are given information about the ward and orientation to their surroundings.
• Contacting of patient’s home to deliver property if needed, e.g. dentures, spectacles.
• Ensuring that the ward is of a high standard of cleanliness in all areas and giving assistance when appropriate.
• Participate in ward audit to measure that standard are achieved.
• Cleaning of kitchen areas including appliances.
• Reporting any faults with fixtures and fittings and actively monitoring repairs and maintenance.
• Awareness of and implementing Infection Control policies.
• Preparation of bed areas for patient admissions or discharges.
• Participate in the auditing of mattresses and report any concerns.
• Ensure ward linen is adequately stocked.
• General tidiness of all ward areas.
• Ordering of ward provisions via telephone, computer, and fax, ensuring that all stocks delivered to the ward are appropriately stored.
This advert closes on Monday 29 Apr 2024