Housekeeping/catering assistant
Job Description
Job summary
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- Are you able to work flexible hours?
- Are you looking to provide a high quality housekeeping service?
- Do you have previous cleaning and catering experience?
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If you answered yes, we've got the perfect role for you!
This is an exciting opportunity for highly motivated and professional housekeepers to be part of the housekeeping team based at the Wisdom Hospice, Rochester to a high standard.
You must be able to communicate in a clear and concise manner, be of a cheerful disposition and able to adapt to changes effectively.
Duties will include:
- Daily cleaning schedules
- Provide catering to the inpatient unit
- Complete task as requested by line manager
- Periodical cleaning tasks included within schedules and ad hoc cleaning requirements
- Ensure cleaning and catering stock is maintained
- Follow hygiene, health and safety regulation
Main duties of the job
To work as part of the housekeeping team within a hospice environment, 80% housekeeping and 20% kitchen
The post holder will be responsible for cleaning and catering in line with the Medway Community Healthcare CIC and NHS national standards for cleanliness and food preparation for patients, staff, families and carers.
Works in areas where there are patients with challenging behaviour or communication difficulties.
Basic food preparation and distribution to up to 15 patients on the inpatient unit.
The post holder will need to be flexible working across different shifts covering the service 7.30am and 7.00pm, Monday to Sunday including bank holidays.
About us
So what else?
- This is your chance to join a progressive and innovative service in a social enterprise that is patient and staff focused - you'll even have the opportunity to become an MCH shareholder.
- We encourage staff to get involved in exploring new ways of working and service development.
- We'll provide well established, in-service training, one to one supervision, and appraisals with regular support.
- You'll be able to develop your skills in a friendly and supportive team.
Would you like to work flexibly?In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important work life balance is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
The small print
- Informal visits can be arranged on request.
- We will offer you the choice of two pension schemes; the NHS Pension scheme and the scottish widows group pension scheme.
- MCH encourages all staff to be double COVID vaccinated to protect themselves, their colleagues, their family and their patients.
- Previous applicants need not apply
Job responsibilities
Criteria
Essential
Qualifications, training, knowledge and experience
Range of routine work procedures requiring job training.
Knowledge of cleaning, food handling/hygiene CoSSH procedures; induction job training
Communication skills
Provide and receive routing information; barriers to understanding
Communicate with patients with communication and behavioural problems
Analytical and judgemental skills
Judgements involving straightforward facts of situations
Judgements on routine cleaning issues
Planning and organisational skills
Organise own day to day tasks and activities
Plans own work, prioritising, cooking methods, cooking times, cooking procedures, reorganises menus
Responsibility for patient/client care
Provide ancillary services to patients/clients
Cleans wards; distributes food ie breakfast (full English to continental), main hot meal at lunchtime (heating of regen foods), light supper (sandwiches, salads and heating tinned soup)
Responsibility for financial and physical resources
Observe personal duty of care/safe use of equipment other than equipment used personally; maintain stock control
Safe use of cleaning equipment/assemble and dismantle cleaning equipment, order stock
Responsibility for human resources
Demonstrate own activities to new or less experienced employees.
Demonstrates cleaning procedures to new starters
Responsibility for information resources
Record personally generated information
Completes timesheets or similar work records
Responsibility for research and development
Undertake surveys or audits, as necessary to own work
Cleaning audits
Freedom to Act
Well established procedures, supervision close by
Team Lead always available for advice
Physical effort
Frequent moderate effort for several short/long periods
Lift buckets of water, push scrubbing machine and cleaning trolley
Emotional factors
Occasional distressing or emotional circumstances; occasional/frequent indirect highly distressing or emotional circumstances
Terminally ill patients; exposure to patient with challenging behaviour
Mental factors
General awareness, sensory attention; work pattern predictable
Concentration while using cleaning equipment
Working conditions
Frequent exposure to highly unpleasant working conditions/some exposure to hazards
Frequent exposure to body fluids/exposure to physical aggression
Person Specification
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Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
Medway Community Healthcare
Address
Wisdom Hospice
High Bank
Rochester
ME1 2NU
Employer's website
https://www.medwaycommunityhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
