Housekeeper - Children\'s Emergency Department

This post is only open to internal applicants.

Housekeeper – Children\’s Emergency Department

Band 2

Main area Housekeeper Band 2 Grade Band 2 Contract Permanent Hours Full time – 37.5 hours per week Job ref 387-WC1053-MF

Site Bristol Royal Hospital for Children Town Bristol Salary £24,169 pa pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 29/05/2025 23:59

As an organisation we recognise the value of a healthy work-life balance. When applying, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate flexible working, so your work life fits around your home life.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are under-represented within the Trust.

The Post Holder will:-

• Work as an integral part of the CED team, being responsible for the co-ordination of all patient facilities/ service.
• Ensure a clean, safe and comfortable environment and act as a focal point for non-clinical tasks.
• Co-ordinate the delivery of catering, cleaning, and ward stores
• Co-ordinate and oversee minor maintenance and repairs, together with other specified tasks to meet the needs of the ward.
• Work closely with support services, Facilities Management, and other departments as necessary

Previous applicants need not apply.

Main duties of the job

Catering:

• To ensure food meets quality standards, regenerating meals as per policy
• Encourage and assist patients to order food, where necessary taking into account special needs and medical requirements.
• Serve meals in conjunction with the nursing team, ensuring patients intake is known and that their dietary needs are met.
• Ensure people have any nursing staff assistance they require to eat and drink providing such assistance as cutting up food, placing food within reach, encouraging patients to eat.
• To prepare and serve hot/cot snacks as requested – offering a 24 hour snack service
• Prepare hot/cold beverages, including appropriate trolley/equipment, ensuring they are serviced at the correct temperature.
• Prepare areas where food and beverages are served/consumed to ensure a patient environment for patients.
• Ensure all equipment used in preparation, regeneration, serving, and consuming food and beverages is washed and clean, taking responsibility for the ward kitchen
• To ensure refrigerated food is labelled and store correctly as per policy.
• Ensure, in conjunction with ward staff, that discharged and newly admitted patients’ meal requirements are acted on, co-ordinating extra meal requirements that may arise.
• Ensure that patients whose fluid is not medically restricted have access to fresh water
• To implement advised changes to food hygiene standards

Working for our organisation

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward-thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Person specification

Knowledge & Experience

• Experience in a health & social care setting
• Good working knowledge of Health & Safety

Skills & Abilities

• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively with patients, visitors and other members of staff
• Ability to successfully complete any required training programme and a willingness to continue learning
• Ability to work effectively in a team and contribute to that team
• Able to respond well to instruction, to work unsupervised use to organise self
• Flexible and reliable
• IT Skills, basic word, email, keyboard skills, data collection, MS office

We hope that you will decide to join us and become part of this exciting journey, helping us to shape our future together.

· As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.

· The Trust is committed to investing in and caring for all our staff. We will support you in maintaining and improving your health and wellbeing, as well as your career development through management and training support – developing exceptional people for exceptional careers.

· UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults.

· To comply with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 all applicants must be able to speak fluent English to an appropriate standard which will be assessed at Interview.

· If you require sponsorship for a visa to work in the UK, to avoid disappointment, please check to ensure you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.

· 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.

· By applying for this post, you are agreeing to University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

· Please be aware of scams – unless specified above, we will only communicate with you via @recruit.trac.jobs or nhs.net e-mails and we will never ask you for any payments.

IMPORTANT:

Please note that if you apply for a position with this Trust, you may be contacted via Trac or via email. This includes invites for job interviews. We therefore recommend that you regularly check your Trac account and email accounts. We may also contact you by texting the mobile number, if provided, on the application form.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore, please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.

As a guide interviews should usually take place within 3 weeks of the closing date.

When providing employment reference details, please provide correct work-related email addresses so references can be sought promptly when we are looking to progress your application. Your referee must all be known to you in a line manager or professional lead capacity.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

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