Domestic Assistant

We are recruiting two Domestic Assistants to join our team at Walkergate Park, Newcastle!

There are 2 part-time posts available, one 30 hours per week (Monday to Friday), and one 35 hours per week (including weekends).

We also pay 25% enhancement, time and a quarter, on hours worked during a Saturday and Sunday 🤗

Our team of Domestics keep our buildings clean and tidy and provide a great service to patients, visitors and staff. You could be cleaning a hospital ward, patient bedroom or office areas and corridors.

Because we provide services to the NHS your work supports better patient care. It’s important work and you will need to take pride in what you do and complete tasks to a high standard.

If you are in a community building you will be working alongside patients who have mental health illness, learning disabilities or brain injuries. You could be cleaning their rooms and the shared areas on the ward and you will get to know them and the clinical staff and you’ll feel part of the team. It can be a real challenge working on wards like these but we also know that our staff find it rewarding.

Main duties of the job
Carrying out a range of cleaning tasks in areas such as offices, public areas such as corridors, areas which patients use such as shared spaces on wards as well as bedrooms and bathrooms

Cleaning tasks can include things like dusting of walls, ceilings and curtain rails, dusting and polishing of furniture and paintwork, hoovering of carpets, mopping floors

Being able to follow instructions and follow a routine work schedule which sets out your tasks and carry out those duties often without supervision

Being aware of the patients that you will be working alongside and work in a way that is respectful, caring and compassionate

You will use equipment and cleaning products safely, adhering to all control of substances harmful to health (COSHH) rules and regulations

Understanding infection prevention and control rules and adhering to them

Person specification |Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
An ability to lift and move a variety of equipment such as trolleys, floor polishing equipment and hoovers

Ability to adhere to standards and procedures and to accept and prioritise instructions

An ability to be flexible and able to adapt to new or different working practices, or work in other departments to meet the needs of the service

An ability to communicate well with others such as other colleagues, clinical staff, or patients
Able to work well as part of a team but also to work unsupervised

Able to work alongside patients who might display challenging or upsetting behaviour

You will need to be able to meet the mobility requirements of the job

Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
In order to follow safety notices and work with cleaning products you will need basic levels of literacy and numeracy (this is an essential requirement of this job)

Experience
Essential criteria
Any previous cleaning experience is welcome but we will train you fully if you don’t have any experience (it is an essential requirement of this job to either have experience or be willing to learn)

All jobs will be appointed on the NTW Solutions Limited terms and conditions and not NHS Agenda for Change terms and conditions. New starters who are not in the NHS Pension already will be enrolled into a NEST pension.

This job vacancy closes midnight, Monday 21st September