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Job summary

Main area
Housekeeping
Grade
Band 2
Contract
Permanent: 27 hours per week - three nights per week, 9 hours per day. Hours 22.00 until 07.30
Hours
  • Part time
  • Other
27 hours per week (TBC)
Job ref
193-7501530COR
Employer
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Royal Berkshire Hospital
Town
Reading
Salary
£24,465 per annum pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
04/11/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust logo

Senior Environmental Assistant

Band 2

At the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust we put our patients at the heart of every element of health and care that we provide. The Trust works together as a community to deliver its vision which is “Working together to provide outstanding care for our community.”

Royal Berkshire Hospital are pleased to announce that following our CQC inspection we have been rated ‘Good’ with inspectors reporting that we have made significant improvements.  The Trust’s overall rating has also improved to ‘good’.  

We are Compassionate in our thoughts, words and actions

We are Aspirational and have a true desire to be dynamic and to innovate

We are Resourceful and responsible in the way we work and live

We are Excellent in our development, fairness and sharing best practice

At the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, we value candidates who bring their unique personalities, skills, and experiences to the Trust. When completing your application, we encourage you to highlight your individual achievements and strengths, showing us how they align with the requirements outlined in the job description and person specification. While we recognise that some applicants may use AI tools during the process, please be mindful that AI-generated responses can often lack the personal detail and relevance needed to demonstrate your suitability for the role. AI generated content is discouraged by the Trust and may diminish the candidates chances of success.

Amazing things happen at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust; delivered by amazing people so why don’t you come and join us.  We offer a range of learning and development for all employees may you be clinical or non-clinical.  

Job overview

You are responsible for:
Undertaking in a competent safe manner, a range of tasks to the required standards, frequencies and schedules & on a planned and ad hoc basis within the built environment.
To pay due regard & observe all Health and Safety procedures including minimal handling regulations the appropriate use of PPE and equipment, COSHH Regulations, HTM’s.
Maintain a clean safe & tidy working environment at all times. Ensuring the following services/duties are provided which will include but not be limited to:
Environmental Services (Housekeeping Cleaning).

Main duties of the job

Provide the services described below to a high standard and to take pride in the quality of their work understanding that all staff within the organization have a role to enhance patient care
· To develop and maintain good working relationships with service users, patients, visitors, staff and managers as well as external agencies providing services to the Trust.
· Communicate and exemplar the Trust behaviour standards which promote the organization, maintain standards, being professional compassionate and caring at all times.
· Maintain a high standard of personal dress/uniform, conduct in keeping with the nature of your duties, ensuring that the duties carried out will reflect to the credit of the department and Trust.
· Attend statutory training, which will include but not be limited to Manual Handling, Infection Prevention Control, Fire and Health & Safety, Information Governance, Equality & Diversity and all other training that is required as part of your job role. 

Working for our organisation

Key Results Areas are our Values CARE C Compassionate All our relationships are based on empathy, respect, integrity and dignity. In every interaction and communication, we
treat colleagues, patients and their families with care and understanding.
Listening, Caring, Communication, Respect, Empathy.
We strive to continuously improve, to be the very best that we can be – as
individuals and as an organisation. Learning and Development, Above and Beyond, Innovation, Drive and Motivation, Feedback R Resourceful We live within our means. We respond to the challenges of today and tomorrow in effective, efficient, innovative and optimistic ways.
Efficient, Problem Solving, Teamwork. We commit to excellence in everything that we do – placing patient safety and quality at our heart. We learn from mistakes, we do what we say we are going to do and hold ourselves and colleagues to the highest standards. Learning from Mistakes, Professional Pride, Honesty, Above and Beyond.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Maternity Theatre Cleaning - Starting at 22.00  until 07.30 and working three nights  a week. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Person specification

Education

Essential criteria
  • • Evidence of adequate level of education
  • • Evidence of willingness to undertake training and development

Experience

Essential criteria
  • • Customer services experience
Desirable criteria
  • • Have experience of one of the facilities disciplines or related areas

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Florence Nightingale FoundationNational Preceptorship for Nursing Quality Mark 2024

Applicant requirements

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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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Jubit Joseph
Job title
Head of Housekeeping Services
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0118 322 5111
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