Housekeeper

£21,218 - £22,260 pro-rata

Old Brampton, Chesterfield

The vacancy

About the role

Hours: Part time working 16 hours per week, including weekends and bank holidays. Weekly working days based on a 3-week rotating shift pattern. Shifts typically start art 3.30/4pm and finish at 7pm. Flexibility may be required.

You will join a dedicated Estates Team who pride themselves on delivering a first-class support service. Duties will include the cleaning of all clinical areas for example the in-patient unit, outpatient rooms and non-clinical areas such as offices, meeting rooms and reception areas. You will be expected to work alongside other members of the team and on occasion on your own.

You will be expected to demonstrate the key characteristics of the job description and have a good knowledge and understanding of Health and Safety procedures, infection control and COSHH regulations.

All our staff work hard to uphold our values and be ambassadors for the Hospice, this is especially important as you will be interacting with patients and visitors regularly as your daily work.

The main responsibilities include:

• Cleaning Floors, furniture and fittings and toilets.
• Thorough cleaning of rooms and equipment on discharge of a patient.
• Emptying and cleaning of waste bins and disposing of waste in line with hospice policies and procedures.
• Replenishing disposable items e.g. hand towels, toilet rolls, soap, alcohol gel etc.
• Bed making is required in overnight stay suite.
• Maintaining own equipment and materials in a clean and tidy condition.
• Reporting faults in equipment or in the building fabric to the Estates team

To get full details on what the role includes please read the attached Job Description, call the recruiting manager for an informal chat and come and visit us.

About you:

• Excellent communicator and good team working skills.
• Highly motivated individual.
• Good organisational skills, able to prioritise workload.
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Ability to on own initiative as well as part of a team.
• Knowledge of cleaning practices.
• Basic understanding of COSHH

About Ashgate:

Ashgate Hospice is a registered charity that provides compassionate, specialist palliative and end of life care, free of charge, to patients with a life-limiting illness and their families across North Derbyshire. Our values are at the heart of everything we do at Ashgate. They are grounded in our commitment to being the best we can be for our patients and the people who are important to them, and for each other. We are compassionate. We are a team. We are respectful, open and inclusive.

We are proud of our Outstanding CQC rating and our recent RCN award-winning in-patient unit and have ambitious plans for high quality and sustainable patient care.

We’re committed to providing a happy, safe and supportive environment for all our people which is why nearly 4 out of 5 of our staff would recommend us as a place to work.

As a valued member of the team, you will have a wide range of training and development available to support your own personal, professional development, opening doors to new career pathways.

Please visit our website and social media accounts or listen to our podcast “The Life and Death Podcast” to get a feel for what it is like to be part of the Ashgate team and gain an understanding of the people we support.

Find out why our people think Ashgate Hospice is a special place to work.

Some of our current benefits include:

• A highly compassionate and supportive working environment
• A wide range of initiatives to support your wellbeing, and the time out to practice self-care
• Generous holiday entitlement
• A progressive approach to flexible working to help meet your and our needs
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Westfield Health Cash Plan includes free annual eye tests, dental checks and money back for a range of treatments and therapies
• Access to a free, confidential Employee Assistance Program
• Free access to Westfield Rewards, offering discounts from hundreds of retailers
• Pension scheme with 7% employer contribution
• Life assurance scheme
• Total commitment to your learning and development
• Ample, free parking when working onsite

What next:

If you would like to find out more about the role, please contact (Pam Hand) on 01246 568801 or [email protected] You can arrange to visit the Hospice to see what it would be like to work with us.

Please note we only accept applications via the ‘Apply now’ button on our website. Please do not send your application to HR or the recruiting manager.

Proposed interview date:

Any candidate who identifies themselves as disabled will be shortlisted if they meet the essential criteria for the role. Essential criteria can be found in the job description and person specification for the role. If you require any accessibility adjustments, please contact a member of the HR team at [email protected] or by calling 01246 568801

If successful, you will be required to have a DBS check carried as part of the conditional pre-employment checks. For more information, please refer to the candidate assistant notes.

As a healthcare provider, it is very important to us that our staff have the annual flu jab and are fully vaccinated against COVID 19. It is our expectation that all of our staff will have the vaccinations unless there are strong compelling reasons why not. We believe having the vaccination not only protects you but also helps us to keep our patients, staff and visitors safe.