Bank Housekeeper | Hospital Housekeeper | Spire Southampton Hospital | Private Hospital | Bank | Weekly pay | Flexible working hours | Southampton
Spire Southampton 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 Southampton Hospital offers world-class care, attracting patients from across the South of England and internationally. We deliver some of the best cardiac surgery results in the country. Our Critical Care department and multidisciplinary team offer you peace of mind for our wide range of treatments.
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
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.
