Senior Ward Housekeeper | Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	02 Mawrth 2026
Cyflog:	Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£24,937 - £26,598 pro rata per annum
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	01 Ebrill 2026
Lleoliad:	Headington, OX3 7LE
Cwmni:	Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Math o swydd:	Cytundeb
Cyfeirnod swydd:	7842591/321-SW-7641783-B3-EXT

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Fixed term contract (12-month maternity leave cover)

We are looking for an enthusiastic and hardworking individual, to join our team as a Senior Housekeeper based on the Haematology Ward, Churchill Hospital, Oxford. We care for patients with blood disorders, requiring chemotherapy and other supportive treatments.

The postholder will 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.

Please contact Monica Jefferson (monica.jefferson@ouh.nhs.uk) for more information or to arrange an informal visit.

To assist the Senior Team Leaders to ensure the appropriate and effective delivery of facilities services in order to properly maintain the patient environment.

To supervise the Ward housekeepers, ensuring that all non-clinical aspects of the patient’s comfort are attended to.

To supervise an effective waste segregation and disposal service ensuring compliance with all relevant procedures and legislation.

To support the catering department and nutritional assistant as required.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trustis 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 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 theOUH YouTube channel.

In 2023 NHS England launched its first sexual safety charter, and our Trust proudly signed it. We pledge zero tolerance for inappropriate sexual behaviour and commit to theten core principles

Oxford University Hospitalspromotes a safe, respectful hiring environment.

If you want to make a difference with us, come and join our team. Together, we will uphold the highest standards of care and professionalism.



Please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Key responsibilities include:
• To liaise with the cleaning contractor/in-house housekeeping services/Monitoring Officers to ensure that cleaning standards on the Wards meet the agreed specification and any unsatisfactory areas are rectified.
• To provide supervision and guidance to domestic staff to ensure that standards and policies are met.
• To liaise with the nursing and housekeeping team regarding the patient’s day, ensuring that work is planned in the most appropriate way to provide a patient focused and seamless service.
• To ensure, in conjunction with the Ward co-ordinator, that patients are provided with appropriate beverages at regular intervals throughout the day. To make and serve beverages to relatives as instructed by the nursing staff and to ensure that patients have the necessary access to beverages throughout their stay in hospital.
• To establish a programme for the planned changing of curtains in bays, side rooms and windows, ensuring that spares are available. Support with changing curtains on an ad-hoc basis as required.
• In conjunction with Clinical Team, to ensure that patient’s cupboards, tables and chairs are clean and free of litter at all times.
• To ensure that all alcohol gel dispensers, paper towels and soap for hand hygiene are replenished, thus contributing to the prevention of cross-infection from one patient to another.
• To clean medical equipment as required in conjunction with Clinical Team. Ensure that all patient equipment is kept clean and in a usable condition. To monitor servicing of equipment (i.e. hoists, blood scanners)


This advert closes on Monday 16 Mar 2026

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