Description

We have an exciting opportunity for  housekeepers to join our friendly and dynamic  teams within the Women and Children's Division. You must  have the enthusiasm and desire to deliver a high quality service to our patients and their families. The candidate must have excellent communication and organisational skills, be work independently using their initiative and within a team ensuring a clean, safe environment is maintained for patients safety.

This role will be a valuable addition to our ward team, you will be responsible for ensuring the ordering and distribution of patients meals and drinks and assisting when needed and ensuring the ward is adequately stocked with consumables.  You will be working together with the multidisciplinary team to ensure the departments are maintained to a high standard of cleanliness of both the ward environment and clinical equipment .

The successful applicant must be  flexible and willing to work shifts covering a Monday to Sunday service, including bank holidays and nights.

Description

Knowledge

• Excellent knowledge of NHS National Standards of Cleanliness and local Trust Cleaning schedules, SLA’s and policies
• Excellent understanding of clinical operations in their designated areas
• Good knowledge and understanding of trust and departmental policy and procedures

Training

• Educated to HND Level ( or equivalent experience)
• ILM Level 2 & 3 ( or equivalent experience)
• Health & Safety Awareness Course
• Commitment to own personal development which is considered essential to effectively undertake the role

Experience

• Significant NHS experience or in a similarly large and diverse organisation within an FM structure gained over a minimum of 1 year
• Experience of managing diverse groups of people and services.

Skills

• Excellent people skills including the ability to motivate, lead and support others
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Good numeracy & literacy skills
• Be able to work on own initiative with a logical approach to time management and prioritising planned and reactive workloads
• Ability to fully and effectively utilise and encourage others in the use of all equipment including modern technologies to ensure a prompt and professional services at all times
• Effective communicator as required to liaise regularly with: trust employees at all levels, patients, visitors and other service users
• Competent in the use of MS Word, Excel and Outlook and able to quickly adapt following training on other bespoke systems as necessary

Description

• NNEB, NVQ level 3 Qualification or BTEC
• Paediatric First Aid
• Child Protection Training
• Knowledge and understanding of the Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage and Welfare requirements
• Working knowledge of all the settings policies and procedures and the ability to put these into practice when required.
• Experience of working with children aged 0-5 within an early years setting
•  Understanding and awareness of Health and Safety
• To have strong communication skills essential for team work
• To take responsibility for a group of children, taking an active role in settling a new child in, liaising with parents and keeping up to date records of learning and development.
• To have effective writing skills, enabling completion of children’s written assessments and other related and non-related paperwork
• To have the imagination and enthusiasm to plan and evaluate activities for children
• To establish and maintain relationships within the staffing team, with parents and with all children.

Description

Knowledge

• Understanding of Portering activities
• Understanding of Department and Trust Health and Safety policies, written safe systems of systems of work and Department rules and procedures
• Understanding of Portering equipment processes
• Understanding and knowledge of pathology procedures for movement of blood products

Training

• Customer and support services or equivalent experience to an NVQ Level 2
• Mandatory training as required for the role
• Collection and transportation of blood products
• Trust, Patient Support/Directorate Services induction training
• On the job induction training

Description

This advert may close early, if we have received a sufficient amount of applications. Therefore you are highly advised to apply as soon as possible if you are interested in this position.

We have an exciting opportunity for a housekeeper to join our friendly and dynamic Dialysis Unit .  You must  have the enthusiasm and desire to deliver a high quality service to patients.  

There is a high turnover of patients throughout the day, therefore the successful candidate must have excellent communication and organisational skills, can work independently and as part of a team ensuring a clean, safe environment is maintained for patients safety.

This role will be a valuable addition to our ward team, you will be responsible for ensuring the ordering of the units store items and drinks, ensuring the ward is adequately stocked. You will also be serving the patients tea rounds which includes serving drinks and snacks.

You will be working together with the multidisciplinary team to ensure the department is maintained to a high standard of cleanliness.

The successful applicant will be flexible and willing to work shifts covering a Monday to Saturday service, including bank holidays. 

Description

Skills

• Ability to communicate with other catering staff regarding work issues and instructions

Training

• To be able to undertake a structured training programme through taught courses and on the job training to last approximately 3 months to include foundation certificate in food hygiene/level 2 food safety certificate, and equipment training (slicing, boilers, cooling kettles etc.). To be signed off as competent with a 3–4-month period

Experience

• Recent relevant catering qualification (Within 3 months of starting)
• Currently Works in the Catering Industry
• Customer Service

Digital knowledge of Word/Excel 

Description

Please read the attached Job Description and Personal Specification documents before applying for this post.

The ideal candidates will have a bubbly and happy personality with experience of working with children and have a passion for the role. You must have confidence in being able to interact with children between 0-5 years, ensuring their safety at all times. You must be self-motivated, confident, reliable, as well as showing initiative. You will be working under the direction of the room senior, qualified practitioners and alongside other members of the team.

The nursery is split into three age groups: Babies, Toddlers and Pre-school. The role will involve you being a key person to a group of children and being responsible to carry out observations and with the support of a qualified practitioner plan activities for the children in your care.  You will be required to build relationships with parents/carers and have the skills to communicate with them effectively. You will be supporting children whilst they play and extend their learning, for example reading stories, role play, and whilst outside. It will also involve intimate care (nappy changing, toileting) and mealtimes.

You will be joining a professional but extremely friendly nursery that thrives on delivering the best possible childcare to our families.