As a Domestic you will work within the Facilities team which provides an appropriate environment for patient care.
Duties include general cleaning, deep cleaning and the preparation and presentation of patients’ meals and drinks.
You will be allocated duties from the key tasks listed below and will be expected to demonstrate a flexible attitude to work, to meet the needs of service delivery to the patients within Healthcare premises.

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for further details.

• To be fully trained and compliant you will be required to support and deliver the processes within your area of work
• Flexibility to work in any area of the hospital as and when required
• To complete Datix incident forms as and when required
• To be able to communicate appropriately and professional through- radios, phones and emails
• Occasional exposure to distressing circumstances or deaths on the ward, which will require discretion and empathy
• To be fully compliant in all training and updates and manage your own on-line training

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

WARD MEAL & DRINKS SERVICE

• Preparation, service and clearing up of patients’ food and drinks, as required and in compliance with Trust policy and legal requirements. This includes use of a tablet
• Recording of food wastage at the end of food service
• Reporting of failure of any food related equipment
• Serving of beverages to patients, with attention given to the presentation
• Clearing up after the patient food service
• Cleaning kitchen and dining room areas, washing crockery, cutlery, etc. and clean all equipment, cupboards, work tops and flooring, linked to the food services
• Reporting any faults in equipment or building fabric to your supervisor.
  Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for further details

• Working within allocated areas, including cleaning of toilets and bathrooms on a daily basis
• Vacuuming, dusting, cleaning of surfaces and mopping of floors to meet the NHS National Standards of Cleanliness 2021
• Within designated areas the cleaning of beds and in some areas re-making with clean linen
• To safely manage and collect clinical and non-clinical waste and bagged soiled linen and take it to the designated collection point in accordance with policy and notify supervisor if waste segregation is not in accordance with policy
• To meet NHS National Standards of Cleanliness 2021 audit requirements ensuring remedial action is taken to address any shortfall in standards, fill out and sign off checklists to show that specific areas, such as toilets and bathrooms have been cleaned and in the correct time frame.
• Deep cleaning of floors and hospital areas throughout the year.