Housekeeper

Working hours: 37.5/week.

An exciting opportunity is now available for a Band 2 Housekeeper to work on our Children's Unit at The Countess of Chester Hospital.

The post holder will be required to carry out various tasks such as monitoring and supporting patients with their menu choices, liaising with dieticians, and other multi disciplinary team members on the ward, ensuring patients are provided with supplies as needed, daily and weekly stock checking, maintaining equipment and deal with maintenance issues and be responsible for stock levels, and generally keeping the ward environment in a tidy and safe state at all times.

The successful candidate will have excellent communication skills as part of the role will be making and receiving telephone calls. The post holder must have the ability to work autonomously and as part of a team.

Good communication skills are essential, experience as a housekeeper is desirable.

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust consists of a 600 bedded large District General Hospital, which provides its services on the Countess of Chester Health Park, and a 64 bedded Intermediate Care Service at Ellesmere Port Hospital.

The Trust provides services in all of the surgical and medical specialties common to a District General Hospital with some specialist services. The Trust serves the whole of the local population currently in excess of 250,000 residents which geographically covers populations in England and North Wales.

The Trust strives to continuously improve and sustain the quality of its services for patients, providing care to more than 445,000 patients per year, with almost 4,000 staff working together putting quality and patient safety, at the heart of everything we do. The organisation provides a wide range of services offering health care to the whole spectrum of the population from birth to the end of life. The Trust complies with its terms of authorisation as a Foundation Trust.

See Job Description for further details.

Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £23 (standard) or £43 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first three months of employment.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.

Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.

Good luck with your application.