Patient Services AssistantNHS

Job summary

A vacancy has arisen for Patient Services Assistants (cleaning) to join the busy Patient Services Department at QA Hospital.

Please only apply for this position if you work the following shifts.

• 06:00-10:00 Monday - Friday
• 07:00-11:00 Monday - Friday
• 10:00-14:00 Monday - Friday

Please be advised the advert may close early due to amount of applicants.

Applicants must have excellent customer care skills.

The post is monthly paid and uniform is provided. The successful applicant will receive a first class training package, and includes on and off the job training. Other benefits are a generous annual leave entitlement and the opportunity to join the NHS pension scheme.

Will require a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) form to be completed.

Main duties of the job

Responsible for cleaning all the floors, furniture, fixtures, fittings, glassware, high and low level surfaces, sanitary areas within Clinical and Non-Clinical Areas these duties will be carried out.

Carry out daily cleans, planned routine scrubs on wards, and ad hoc infectious scrubs as directed following outbreaks (ie MRSA, diarrhoea and vomiting, hepatitis etc) to ensure bed blocking is kept to a minimum. The daily cleaning of sanitary fixtures and fittings in patient and public areas.

High and low level cleaning, spot wash walls, dusting curtain tracks, radiators, and window ledges and cleaning of internal glass and doorframes as required.

Changing window and bed curtains as routine and after an infectious clean/scrub.

Cleaning of patient related furniture to include bedframes, lockers, tables and chairs.

Using heavy mechanical cleaning equipment (ie scrubbers, wet pickups, buffers) to clean floors in wards, bathrooms, toilets and corridors.

Cleaning of Theatres, daily scrubbing of floors, sinks and surrounding dirty and clean corridors following department and Infection Control guidelines.

Job description

EQUIPMENT AND MACHINERY

The postholder will be required to operate the following equipment.

Procedures as detailed in the Patient Services Operational Procedures Manual.

Tub or cylinder vacuum.

Scrubbing Machine.

Carpet Shampooer.

Hot water boilers/kettles Procedures Manual.

Floor Mopping equipment.

Safety Steps.

Scrubber/Dryer machines.

Waste bins.

Steam cleaner machines.

This list is not exhaustive but indicative of the equipment in use.

SYSTEMS

Follow SOPs (Working Instructions) to ensure that the department is run in an efficient and safe manner.

Completion of Stores Request forms.

Completion of own timesheet / holiday sheets / sickness notes.

Reporting of faulty equipment to the Domestic Supervisor or Estates department.

Completion of paperwork relevant to post.

Completion of staff surveys.

Participating in relevant audits.

Please see attached Job Description.

About us

Equans working in Partnership with Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.

The Trust is committed to driving excellence in care for our patients and communities and was rated good by the Care Quality Commission report published 2020 and became a University Hospital.

We are ranked as the third in the country for research; embedding education and training across the organisation and we continuously strive to achieve our core values which are at the heart of everything we do.

The Trusts main hub is the QAH, starting life as a military hospital over a century ago and now one of the largest hospitals on the south coast. The Trust provides comprehensive secondary care and specialist services to a local population of 675,000 people across South East Hampshire.

The Trust employs over 8,000 staff and are #ProudtobePHU; our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because its the right thing to do, but because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for providing outstanding care and support for patients, colleagues and our community you will find a home at PHU.

In recruiting for our team, we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veterans status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs.