AAU Facilities Service Assistant

This position forms a part of the Cleaning Service’s & Portering team in Acute Assessment Units. The key purpose of the role is to undertake cleaning duties and assist with all aspects of the cleaning service under the direction and supervision of the Ward Manager., + Undertaking cleaning duties in accordance with the Whittington health and facilities cleaning standards; cleaning task descriptions and cleaning schedules.

• Maintaining and using adequate supplies of the correct cleaning materials and consumables in order for cleaning duties to be carried out.

• To carry out other duties which may reasonably be required by the Ward Manager.

• Undertaking daily, weekly; monthly and annual cleaning routines to ensure all areas of responsibility are maintained to high standard.

• Providing a high quality standard of hygiene throughout the area of responsibility to reduce infection related risks to patients and visitors.

• To work to agreed planned duty timetable relevant to the ward / department so as to maintain the cleanliness and hygiene levels of floors, kitchens, toilets, bathrooms, showers, basins, taps, all surfaces, food trolleys, equipment, walls, internal glass, telephones, lamps, bins, furniture, fixtures and fittings to the standard laid out in the Housekeeping operational procedures.

• To provide a hot and cold food and beverage service to patients.

For full details of this job role please see Job description enclosed.

Working for our organisation

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work., Responsible for undertaking the following duties as and when required; delivery and collection of goods and equipment, patient’s transport, linen and laundry collection, medical records, medical gases, blood products, samples, mortuary duties, cleaning of public areas, night theatre cover.

For full details please see Job description attached.

SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS

To comply with the Trust’s Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:

• Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.

• Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.

• Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.

• Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.

• Participate in required training and supervision.

• Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct

Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Your application form –

1. Provide only business email address for your referees – we are unable to request references from yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail accounts.

2. Make sure you to include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirement on the jobs description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria.

Our processes –

1. Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay.

2. If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job unfortunately this means you have not been successfully shortlisted for interview. If your require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert.

3. Please check your emails regularly as all correspondence from us will be via trac.systems – occasionally these emails will go into your Junk folder.

4. Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.

Other important information –

• Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.

• Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.

• In submitting an application form, you authorise Whittington Health NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a "selfie" using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk

Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided

The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.

We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation

For our current apprenticeship vacancies, please go to https://www.gov.uk/apply-apprenticeship and use Keyword ‘Whittington’