Domestic Assistant in Carlisle

We are recruiting Domestic Assistants to join our team at Carleton Clinic, Cumbria. This post will be offered at Part Time, 17.5 hours per week on a rolling rota to cover a 7-day service. Our team of Domestics keep our wards and 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.
• Completing any paperwork such as quality checks and any other documentation required.
• Help with any cleaning audits or other surveys and inspections that take place.
• Taking part in any training that you need to do and keep up to date with all company communications.
• You will be respectful of other people and work in a way that supports equality, diversity and inclusion.
• You will demonstrate our company values of being caring and compassionate, respectful, and honest and transparent in all that you do.

Working for our organisation:

NTW Solutions Limited is proud to provide services to the NHS. We keep hospitals clean and patients fed and we keep buildings running and grounds tidy. We are dedicated to being a great inclusive place to work. We provide a wide range of benefits including a good rate of pay and pension and an extensive range of discounts. We care about health and wellbeing and offer a range of support for the people who work here. We believe everyone has potential and welcome applications from people from a culturally diverse background, those who are LGBTQ+, people with disabilities, anyone who is unemployed or has been out of work for a period of time, or those who have served in our armed forces.

Person specification:

Skills and Knowledge:

• 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:

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:

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).

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.