Housekeeping Assistant
| Posting date: | 23 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | £25,768.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £25768.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 March 2026 |
| Location: | Slough, Berkshire, SL2 4HL |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9151-26-0236 |
Summary
Your Role & Responsibilities As a Housekeeping Assistant, you will play a crucial part in maintaining high standards of cleanliness and hygiene across hospital wards and departments. Your key tasks will include: Vacuum/mop sweep/damp mop/spot clean/spray buffing of floor surfaces, using machinery as required. High and low dust (including skirting boards/window ledges/curtain rails/notice boards/picture frames/furniture/doors and door stays). Vacuum carpeted areas, daily removal of spots or stains, and shampooing of carpets using machinery on housekeeping supervisor instruction. Collection and tagging of all rubbish, removing bags, clinical waste bins, sharps bins and flattened cardboard containers to designated collection points. Ensure waste is correctly segregated at the collection point, and placed into locked containers, as required by Trust policy. Replace bags on stands/containers, with the correct colour code, and ensure that containers are clean. Damp dust lockers, over-bed tables, chairs, beds, ledges, over-bed lights, pipes, radiators (remove cages as instructed) bed and locker wheels. Attend to deep clean requests throughout the hospital. Damp dust/polish desks, furniture, fittings at nurse station and in offices, day room, and any other ancillary rooms attached to the area. Clean baths, showers, and hand basins polish all chromium fittings. Assist with curtain changing. Catering duties where applicable. Patients privacy and confidentiality must always be respected. We reserve the right to close the advert early if sufficient applications have been received.