Soft Services General Assistant - Paulton Memorial Hospital in Bath

As a Soft Services General Assistant, you’ll be part of our valued team at Paulton Memorial Hospital in Bath. You will feel valued as a Soft Services General Assistant within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• A salary of £23,875 FTE with access to a group pension.
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers.
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates.
• Online and face-to-face help with your mental and physical wellbeing.
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development.
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care.
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards.
• Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location.

As a Soft Services General Assistant, you will work closely with the Facilities Soft Services Team Leader and other Facilities Colleagues within the friendly and supportive Soft Services Team to provide domestic and catering services within a hospital environment. This role is varied and dynamic offering a variety of activities to support and enable the delivery of HCRG Care Group Community Services. This role is primarily based between Paulton Memorial Hospital and St Martins Community Hospital so being able and willing to travel across sites is essential for this role. A valid UK driving licence is an essential requirement for this role due to the requirement to drive a company van.

Main Responsibilities:

• The Soft Services General Assistant will play an important role in delivering all aspects of Soft Services, including cleaning, catering and portering.
• The cleaning element of the role will include day-to-day cleaning of various areas, ad hoc and periodic cleaning as per NHS Cleaning Standards, and reactive cleaning such as Deep Cleans.
• The catering element of the role will include ward kitchen food and drink service and catering block food preparation and management.
• The portering element of the role will include stock control, goods in services, and transportation between sites of equipment and supplies.

The Ideal Candidate:

• Range of work procedures and practices, base level of theoretical knowledge plus experience relevant to the post.
• Facilities in-house training program to be completed within agreed time scale.
• Willingness to undertake NVQ Level 3 Food Hygiene, if not already qualified.
• Current full clean driving license and use of a car during working hours.

About the Company:

We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services, and adult social care and wellbeing services. We support communities across England and directly help more than half a million people each year.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance. Everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.