Domestic Assistant

Job Overview
We are currently recruiting for a Domestic Assistant based at Wrightington Hospital.

1 x 20 hour per week post

Monday to Friday 16:00 – 20:00.

Please be advised, Applications are scored against the person specification, detailed in the job advert. Candidates with highest scores will be invited to the interviews. Please read the person specification and in your application (Supporting information section) please describe how do you meet these criteria for the role.

Please note that this vacancy may close early if a sufficient number of applications are received. We encourage interested candidates to apply promptly to avoid disappointment

Main duties of the job
The post holder is responsible for carrying out specific cleaning and other related duties, following set procedure and standards to provide and maintain high standards of cleanliness throughout the hospital and designated wards or departments.

To Perform Domestic Duties Including

• General cleaning
• Isolation cleaning
• High and low dusting
• Wet and dry mopping
• Clean toilets, baths and washbasins.
• Emptying clinical and general waste bins and placing bags in designated areas
• Vacuum Cleaning
• Scrubbing and buffing floors with mechanical machine
• Carpet shampooing
• Using chemicals and cleaning equipment responsibly and within health and safety guidelines.
• Maintaining staff and public safety through appropriate use of warning signage whilst cleaning.

Full training will be provided to the successful candidate
Working for our organisation
Choose Well – Choose WWL
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that 'happy staff, makes for happy patients'. We have a recognised track record in staff engagement and living our values.

• People at the Heart
• Listen and Involve
• Kind and Respectful
• ONE Team

WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. We are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.

At WWL we value the benefits a rich and diverse workforce brings to our community and therefore welcome applications from all sections of society.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information available by contacting [email protected] where you can also ask about how to access vaccinations

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

• To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team delivering high standards of cleaning within both the clinical and non-clinical areas.
• To clean specific areas in line with Trust policy and national cleaning standards.
• To provide a cleaning service in accordance with approved methods, standards and frequencies.
• To provide support to terminal cleans/infection cleans ensuring conversance with infection control & procedures in respect of all cleaning duties.
• The removal and cleaning up of uncontained body fluid spillages in line with Trust policy and national cleaning standards.
• To use cleaning equipment, machinery and cleaning materials once trained and ability to spot defects with machinery and report to Supervisor.
• Where required undertake Bioquell Q50- HPV decontamination duties and be fully compliant with all the methods and responsibilities of using this system.
• To adopt a flexible approach when undertaking domestic duties.

Good basic salary plus an attractive package of benefits which include:

• Excellent Pension & Life Assurance Package (over 20% employer contribution)
• Excellent annual leave entitlements 27 to 33 days per annum dependent upon service.
• Paid occupational maternity, paternity, and adoption leave dependent upon service.
• Training opportunities and eLearning resources.
• Health and wellbeing support.
• Career Progression opportunities within Estates & Facilities and the NHS.
• Access to salary sacrifice schemes for items such as lease vehicles and buy a bike schemes.
• NHS Discount schemes to access hundreds of discounts and savings from everything to High Street Stores to restaurants, family holidays and more.
• Long Service Awards.

Person specification
Knowledge
Essential Criteria

• Understanding importance of cleaning within a Hospital environment
• Knowledge of using electrical cleaning equipment (vacuum, steam cleaner, buffer, floor scrubber -dryer, carpet cleaner)

Desirable criteria

• Understanding of Infection Control precautions (hand washing, colour coding, PPE, hygiene)
• Understanding of safe usage of chemicals (COSHH) and Health & Safety

Skills
Essential criteria

• Basic Numeracy & Literacy required
• Knowledge / understanding of cleaning and domestic assistant role
• Ability to communicate effectively with a range of people and understand written and verbal communications
• Ability to organise & prioritise day to day tasks
• Ability to be flexible and adaptable to meet service needs, i.e. move area, work Bank Holidays

Desirable criteria

• Ability to use cleaning equipment, pull out beds to facilitate cleaning; handling refuse sacks; able to stand for long period of time
• Basic IT skills to enable complete of Trust e-learning and use software to book annual leave

Experience
Essential criteria

• No previous experiance required

Desirable criteria

• Experience of cleaning within healthcare environment
• Experience of working with public/customers

Qualifications
Essential criteria

• No formal qualifications are required: an induction period, on the job instruction and additional training will be provided on infection control, COSHH, national cleaning standards, use of cleaning equipment/machinery and manual handling.

Desirable criteria

• NVQ Level 1 & 2 or other recognised cleaning qualifications

Additional
Essential criteria

• Speak English to an appropriate standard relevant to their role, i.e. with confidence and accuracy, using correct sentence structures and vocabulary, and without hesitation

Desirable criteria

• Flexible approach to working unsocial hours mobility across the Trust