Bank Housekeeper - Band 2

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COME AND WORK WITH OUR FANTASTIC HOUSEKEEPING TEAM AT STROUS GENERAL HOSPITAL!

We are looking for a Housekeeper to join our friendly Facilities team at Stroud General Hospital who are passionate about ensuring our high standards are achieved.

You will be joining a team who is committed to providing a clean, safe and supportive environment in which patients can recuperate.

You will receive full training so that you will competently maintain the highest standards of cleanliness and help provide an excellent food service. Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Trust is looking for a friendly, conscientious and motivated individual to join the Facilities Team.

The purpose of the role is to provide a cleaning and catering service within our Community Hospital.

The service we provide operates shifts across all of the seven days a week. The successful candidate will be working throughout the hospital in non-patient and inpatient areas. We are looking for a person who can work as part of the team to maintain the high standards of cleanliness and to prepare safe and consistently high standards of food and beverages for patients in our care.

This patient facing role requires candidates to have good communication skills. The successful candidate will require the ability to follow instructions and procedures via written, verbal and computer-based methods of communication and preferably have previous experience in a similar role or environment.

A flexible approach towards the work will be required to meet the changing priorities of the workload, duties and department.

We offer:

- Enhanced pay for working weekends and bank holidays.

- Pension scheme

For additional information please contact Facilities Manager, Amy Bennett on 0300 421 8870 or Amy.Bennett@ghc.nhs.uk.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

This post requires the post holder to be able to undertake all statutory and mandatory training and post holders must be able to undertake physical interventions. Fitness for physical intervention will be assessed by Occupational Health.

To ensure you fully understand how the Trust, as a Data Controller, will process and store your data please read the attached document ‘ Applicant and Staff Privacy Notice’ prior to applying for the role.

Candidates for any staff appointment shall, when making application, disclose in writing to the Trust whether they are related to any governor. Failure to disclose such a relationship may disqualify a candidate and, if appointed, may render him/her liable to dismissal.

Applicants who have been shortlisted will be contacted via NHS Jobs. Please check your account regularly. If you do not hear from us within 3 weeks of the closing date you have probably not been shortlisted. We are sorry that on some occasions we are unable to let you know the outcome of your application personally. The Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy when sufficient applications have been received.

Please note that all candidates who declare themselves on their application form to be disabled and who meet the essential criteria for the post will be shortlisted in accordance with the Trust’s Two Ticks Pledge on disability.

Applicants should note that all appointments to GHCNHSFT are subject to the completion of a satisfactory 6 month probation period.(excluding Medical Staffing appointments).

Successful candidates are expected to self-fund either an enhanced or standard or basic DBS check, and sign up to the DBS update service if required for the role.

Please note that if you are successful in your application and you have previously worked for an NHS Trust, GHCNHSFT will request confirmation of your previous NHS service from your last NHS employer via the inter authority transfer system to verify service, pension, sick pay entitlement and pay grade. Your permission will be sought at application and /or later in the process.

Flexible working arrangements will be considered. Any request will be set against genuine operational requirements and limitations and it is not obligatory for a manager to accede to the request.

For positions Band 8a and above there is a requirement to participate in an on-call rota to ensure a high quality of care for patients at all times and continued support to all staff with access to the right knowledge and expertise. For further information on this please consult the job description.