Bank Housekeeper

Spire Portsmouth Hospital is looking for a Housekeeper to carry out housekeeping duties throughout the hospital, on a flexible working basis. You will complete cleaning schedules ensuring rooms are ready to the correct layout. The experienced housekeeper will mainly cover shifts for sickness and annual leave.

Spire Portsmouth Hospital offers world-class care within beautiful surroundings, and is part of one of the UK's most respected private hospital groups. With a full multidisciplinary medical team, you can get fast access to expert healthcare, from consultations and diagnosis to personalised treatments and as much aftercare as you clinically need

Duties and responsibilities:

Maintain high standards of cleanliness throughout the hospital in line with the housekeeping and infection control policy
Complete the cleaning schedules related to the shift, ensuring that rooms are ready for immediate occupation and public areas are clean
Keep in close contact with the Senior Housekeeper and report any concerns regarding housekeeping issues immediately
Work in close liaison with the clinical staff, understanding the special needs of the hospital on a day to day basis
Responsible for the day to day maintenance of the equipment provided, checking for faults and supply shortages and reporting them to the line manager
Compliance with all Health and Safety at Work regulations including COSHH
Work with guidance on moving and handling, as identified in corporate and local policy and discussed at Mandatory training sessions
Quality assurance and patient confidentiality must be maintained at all times

Essential Skills:

Experience in a customer facing environment
Previous housekeeping experience is desired but not essential
Experience working unsupervised and on own initiative, prioritising tasks
A positive and flexible approach to customer service
Good communication skills

Hours: 0 hours ad-hoc shifts. Must be available for a mixture Mon- Fri 7am-3pm or 2pm-10pm; Sat and Sun 7am- 3pm or 11am -7pm

Benefits:

Bank colleagues are paid weekly
We offer competitive rates to our bank colleagues who work on a flexible basis, often to cover busy periods, sickness, or annual leave
Save an average of £50 per month with our free onsite car park
Access to Spire Healthcare pension
Access to Blue Light Card discounts
Free uniform
Free DBS
Full induction, including mandatory training updates
Opportunities for further training and progression into permanent posts
Knowledge, support and guidance through your recruitment journey from Spire's specialist Resourcing Team

We commit to our employees well-being through work life balance, on-going development, support and reward.

Spire Healthcare is a leading independent healthcare group in the United Kingdom, running 38 hospitals and over 50 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland. It provides diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care, operates a network of private GPs and provides workplace health services to over 800 corporate clients. It also delivers a range of private and NHS mental health, musculoskeletal and dermatological services

For us, it's more than just treating patients; it's about looking after people.

Closing date: In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.