House Keeper - Peterborough inPeterborough inPeterborough PUBLISHED
MON 11 NOV 2024
Job Summary: House Keeper - Peterborough
North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust
The House Keeper will play a crucial role in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, collaborating with the nurse in charge to maintain clean, safe, and comfortable facilities for patients. Key responsibilities include coordinating cleaning, stocking equipment, ordering supplies, managing catering, and addressing individual patient needs. The post holder will monitor quality standards, report issues, and ensure compliance with cleaning policies.
Additional duties involve maintaining cleanliness in patient spaces, transporting equipment, logging records, and assisting with staff training. The House Keeper will oversee food safety practices, manage stock rotation, and ensure all equipment is functional and well-maintained. Strong communication, respect for patient dignity, and effective customer service are essential.
This role requires a proactive approach to problem-solving and collaboration with contractors and support services. Regular reviews of the job description will ensure alignment with operational needs.
The post holder will work as an integral part of the Neonatal Intensive Care team, working with the nurse in charge of the shift. You will be responsible for the co-ordination of all patient facilities services in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and ensuring a clean, safe and comfortable environment.
The main elements of the role are ensuring the delivery of cleaning, stocking equipment, ordering stores, catering, together with other specified tasks to meet individual patient needs as determined by the sister/charge nurse.
The post holder will be required to work closely with contractors and support service departments. He/she will monitor quality standards, report deficiencies and appropriate action taken to the nurse in charge.
*Please Note the advert may close sooner than the date advertised due to levels of interest, closing of the advert will happen with no notice*
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- To identify any problems with general cleanliness and report to the nurse in charge.
- To ensure general and specialist equipment, specific to area of work, are cleaned, stocked, logged and in good working order as per cleaning policy.
- To ensure the department is safe and tidy at all times e.g. remove clutter, tidy notice boards, signage etc.
- To maintain upkeep of patients bed spaces.
- To transport equipment, consumables and written information as required.
- To maintain and update paper-based records and information as required.
- To receive and pass on information to others, maintaining confidentiality.
- To refer complaints to the nurse in charge.
- To assist with training of staff involved with department housekeeping services to achieve required standards.
- To maintain personal trust and local mandatory training compliance.
- In conjunction with the nurse in charge and multi-disciplinary team observe the monitoring of service delivery especially related to cleaning, food, linen and the environment at the agreed frequency.
- To observe and record fridge temperature and food storage as per policy, taking action if necessary.
- To take responsibility for stock rotation and discarding out-of-date food and milk.
- To maintain parent kitchen in conjunction with medirest.
- To ensure all defects are logged, reported, recorded, monitored and closed down as appropriate.
- To carry out regular equipment monitoring in accordance with procedures.
- To clean beds / mattresses after occupancy and make beds as required.
- To undertake the monthly mattress audit.
- To ensure the patients space is respected.
- To maintain the safety of peoples property and belongings.
- To ensure equipment to be returned for reprocessing is stored safely.
- Ordering of stock for all areas of the department.
- Liaise with materials management team.
- Ensure all department daily checks are completed and signed for.
- To respect the privacy and dignity of patients whilst carrying out housekeeping duties.
- To respond to emergencies as appropriate and according to Trust policy. To maintain effective working relationships.
- To foster peoples equality, diversity and rights.
- To provide an effective customer service
- To ensure the ward has sufficient stocks to meet patient and staff needs.
- To assist people with accessing written information e.g. cards and letters. To explain the correct use of equipment to people.
This description is an outline of the duties of the post holder. It will be subject to regular review and may be amended following consultation with the post holder.
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