Job summary
- Main area
- Housekeeping
- Grade
- Band 2
- Contract
- Permanent: full time or part time
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 151-LC439
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wexham Park Hospital
- Town
- Slough, Berkshire
- Salary
- £25,768 per annum incl HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/03/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Housekeeping Assistant
Band 2
Job overview
Join Our Team at Wexham Park Hospital!
Are you a hardworking and enthusiastic individual looking for a rewarding role in healthcare? We are seeking a dedicated Housekeeper to join our friendly team at Wexham Park Hospital, Slough.
In this role, you will play a vital part in ensuring patients have a comfortable and positive experience by:
✅ Maintaining high standards of cleanliness on the ward/department
✅ Serving breakfast to patients with care and efficiency
✅ Creating a welcoming and supportive environment
✨ What We Offer:
✔ Full training – no previous cleaning experience needed
✔ A friendly and supportive team environment
✔ The chance to make a real difference in patients' lives
✔ NHS benefits and career progression opportunities
If you have great customer service skills and a positive attitude, we’d love to hear from you! Apply today and be part of something meaningful.
Main duties of the job
Are you looking for a rewarding role where you can make a real difference in a healthcare environment? Wexham Park Hospital, Slough, is seeking a hardworking and enthusiastic Housekeeping Assistant to join our dedicated team.
About the Role
As a Housekeeping Assistant, you will play a vital role in maintaining a clean, safe, and comfortable environment for our patients and staff.
Purpose of job:
- Work as a member of the housekeeping team, contributing to the provision of a comfortable and effective stay for patients, by ensuring that the ward/departments are maintained to a high standard of cleanliness and to help serve meals as required.
- Work as a member of the non-ward-based team, ensuring that all non-ward areas(offices, corridors etc.) are cleaned to a high standard of cleanliness, maintaining a pleasant environment for staff, patient and visitors.
- To carry out the full range of duties listed below.
If you have great attention to detail, a strong work ethic, and excellent customer service skills, we’d love to hear from you!
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Your Role & Responsibilities
As a Housekeeping Assistant, you will play a crucial part in maintaining high standards of cleanliness and hygiene across hospital wards and departments. Your key tasks will include:
· Vacuum/mop sweep/damp mop/spot clean/spray buffing of floor surfaces, using machinery as required.
· High and low dust (including skirting boards/window ledges/curtain rails/notice boards/picture frames/furniture/doors and door stays).
· Vacuum carpeted areas, daily removal of spots or stains, and shampooing of carpets using machinery on housekeeping supervisor instruction.
· Collection and tagging of all rubbish, removing bags, clinical waste bins, sharps bins and flattened cardboard containers to designated collection points.
· Ensure waste is correctly segregated at the collection point, and placed into locked containers, as required by Trust policy.
· Replace bags on stands/containers, with the correct colour code, and ensure that containers are clean.
· Damp dust lockers, over-bed tables, chairs, beds, ledges, over-bed lights, pipes, radiators (remove cages as instructed) bed and locker wheels.
· Attend to deep clean requests throughout the hospital.
· Damp dust/polish desks, furniture, fittings at nurse station and in offices, day room, and any other ancillary rooms attached to the area.
- · Clean baths, showers, and hand basins polish all chromium fittings.
- Assist with curtain changing.
- Catering duties where applicable.
- Patients privacy and confidentiality must always be respected.
We reserve the right to close the advert early if sufficient applications have been received.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Good level of basic education.
- Able to demonstrate literacy, numeracy, and comprehension skills.
Desirable criteria
- NVQ level 1 in cleaning and support services building interior
- Basic food hygiene.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Basic housekeeping experience
- Hygiene COSSH procedures
Desirable criteria
- Infection prevention and control
- NHS experience.
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Good communication skills.
- Able to deal confidently and professionally with members of the public and staff
- Able to read and understand written and verbal communication/instruction.
- Team worker
- Customer focussed
- Basic IT skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Mellissa Galatola
- Job title
- Assistant hotel services manager - Housekeeping
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03006153244
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