Housekeeper
| Posting date: | 20 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | £24,465.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £24465.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 31 August 2025 |
| Location: | Nottingham, NG7 2UH |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9164-25-1572 |
Summary
Under the supervision of the Senior Neonatal Supplies Chain Housekeeping Assistants and Neonatal Procurement Administrator: To meet and greet all callers, families and parents to the neonatal unit, in accordance with the Trust values, beliefs and behaviours. Clean equipment, including incubators, safely and effectively to ensure timely availability for use in the clinical areas as part of infection prevention and control responsibility and managing flow of equipment. To support the Service with maintaining a clean supply of laundry specific to the Neonatal Unit. Check and re-stock procedure boxes on the Neonatal Unit in readiness for critical and urgent clinical procedures. Support clinical staff to set up spaces with equipment and supplies to receive sick newborn infants at admission. Support clinical staff to clear and clean area following discharge of infants from the clinical area, including cleaning incubators. Restock Newborn Life Support (NLS) boxes, prepare in advance and top-up four times a year. Physical effort is required for collection of store supplies and equipment and moving and handling of equipment. Communicate with MESU regarding repairs, updates and returns of medical equipment to ensure serviceable and useable in the clinical area. Organise the safe disposal of obsolete equipment. Use the chute system for pharmacy and specimens. To collect from pharmacy and other departments when required. To contribute the provision of all Supplies Services functions, ensuring the highest standards of service are achieved in support of the Trusts objectives. Access and use Trust IT systems for procurement and logging requests in addition to maintaining up to date spreadsheets. Unpack and check delivered items against delivery/order information, take corrective action, maintains audit records. To contribute to regular progress and savings reports to the Neonatal Procurement Administrator. To develop and maintain a comprehensive product and services knowledge including suppliers and supplier markets. Maintain full and accurate records and filing systems of all contract work undertaken to ensure full transparency of process and required probity. Support trials of new products. Review with Ward Sister/Procurement Administrator Attend internal/external training programmes and meetings when required. To undertake any other duties that may reasonably be required. This role will under take shift work 7 days a week and will cover both days and in the future night shifts.