Job overview

Great Ormond Street Hospital’s Leopard ward are recruiting a full time Housekeeper
The housekeepers are managed by Ward Sisters, supported by a team of staff nurses who provide care to children, maintaining close links with other members of the Multidisciplinary Team including the medical team, Psychologists, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and Clinical Nurse Specialists.

The teams are enthusiastic, motivated, friendly and deliver family centred care. The Housekeeper post is designed to help maintain a high standard of family centred care by being an integral part of a ward team providing a safe and suitable environment for the recovery of the children cared for on the unit.

The role is fundamental to the efficient, high standard care provided on the unit and is a valuable part of the large nursing team. The role will involve limited direct patient care, whilst supporting those who provide direct care.

Main duties of the job

• You will be responsible for the co-ordination of services provided by the Estates & Facilities Division, working closely with contractors and support service departments, and will monitor quality standards related to these services, report deficiencies and take appropriate action.
• Have knowledge and understanding of the patient environment and its associated required standards.
• Responsibility for ensuring compliance with Food Hygiene Regulations and Trust Food Hygiene Policy in the following ways: Monitoring Food and Storage Temperature Control, clean utensils and kitchen environment, adherence to good personal hygiene, control of opportunities for cross contamination during food service and management of dishwasher maintenance needs.
• Ensure that all Patients have access to the Trust Menu to ensure that they are able to select their meal choice effectively, up and to the time of eating
• Support the Unit Manager in the assurance that Cleaning Standards are compliant with NHS Cleaning Specifications and the Domestic Service SLA for the Unit.
• Keep the ward tidy at all times e.g., remove clutter, manage broken equipment, ensure fire exits are clear, arrange moves as required, and ensure that stock is put away in a timely way once it has been delivered

Working for our organisation

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust (GOSH) is an international centre of excellence in child healthcare. GOSH is an acute specialist paediatric hospital with a mission to provide world-class care to children and young people with rare, complex and difficult-to-treat conditions.

Together with our research partner, the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, we form the UK’s only academic Biomedical Research Centre specialising in paediatrics.

Most of the children we care for are referred from other hospitals throughout the UK and overseas. There are 60 nationally recognised clinical specialities at GOSH; the UK's widest range of specialist health services for children on one site.

We believe our people are the head, the heart, the hands and the face of GOSH. Being part of our team is incredibly rewarding and you will be doing something extraordinary to the lives of the children and young people we care for.

GOSH is a challenging, complex and inspiring place to work. Each and every day our people come together to support each other to deliver excellent patient care, often working to help our patients and their families navigate through demanding processes and difficult decisions.