Housekeeper

at  Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting for Housekeepers to join our female acute treatment ward at Ash Villa, in Sleaford.

We are looking for friendly, reliable and hard-working candidates who will be flexible, and organized with good interpersonal and communication skills.
All general housekeeping duties will be required within a mental health inpatient environment to set procedures and to ensure the cleanliness of a hospital environment is maintained to a high standard in accordance with CoSHH, Health and Safety and Infection Control measures in place. This will additionally include the support and serving of patient mealtimes, therefore direct patient contact will be required.
You will be a team player and have the ability to use your initiative to prioritise and organise daily duties, whilst maintaining the Trust Values (Compassion, Pride, Integrity, Valuing Everybody, Innovation and Collaboration).
The unit is operational 7 days a week therefore weekend and bank holiday cover will be required to ensure that we have sufficient housekeeping services at all times. There is a mixture of shifts between 7 am and 6pm
Early shifts are 7-3 and late shifts 10-6pm
The post holder is part of a team of housekeepers who are responsible to the Housekeeping Supervisor
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!
We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

• Achieve and maintain high standards of cleanliness in at all times, in line with NHS National Standards of Cleanliness and Infection Control policy:
• Use of all cleaning equipment and materials appropriately and effectively to provide a clean and safe environment
• Cleaning of all areas within the unit both on the wards and the off ward areas as defined in the cleaning schedules
• Daily inspection of electrical cleaning equipment prior to use and the reporting of any faults as appropriate
• Disposal of all waste in accordance with trust policies
• Damp dusting of all fixtures and fitting/internal glass
• Ensure all soft furnishings, curtains and soft flooring are cleaned and maintained as required
• Changing curtains when required and re-hang as necessary
• Any other duties as related to housekeeping within the unit.
• Prepare and regenerate meals for patients. Maintain all food safety records in line with Food Safety Manual, Catering Policy, and all food safety legislation.
• Ensure patient area is readied for meal service, and clear related crockery/cutlery etc after meal service, ensuring these are washed appropriately.
• Maintain stocks of cleaning materials on wards and admin areas.
• Report any issues/damage to the environment/furniture etc to the Housekeeping Supervisor/Ward Manager.
• Ensure all stocks of linen are maintained and laundered in line with appropriate policies.
• Comply with and carry out safe practice in accordance with Trust policies and procedures, appropriate Codes of Conduct, the Mental Health Act (1983)