housekeeper

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool

housekeeper

£23615

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool

  • Part time
  • Permanent
  • Remote working

Posted today, 3 Dec | Get your application in now to be one of the first to apply.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: 4d610d94f12647fcb45479c5d4ec48bd

Full Job Description

  • Maintain high standards of cleanliness and hygiene in line with health and safety protocols.
  • Collaborate with team members while also working independently to complete tasks effectively.
  • Communicate professionally with patients, staff, and regional community services.,
  • Inventory Management: Regularly checking stock levels to ensure adequate supplies, including contraceptives, STI testing kits, medical gloves, sanitisers, swabs, and other essential items. This includes maintaining a well-organised inventory system.
  • Order Placement: Accurately placing orders with approved suppliers
  • Receiving and Checking Orders: Verifying incoming orders against purchase orders, checking for accuracy, and ensuring all items are accounted for, properly packaged, and within expiry dates.
  • Stock Rotation and Expiry Monitoring: Organising stock to ensure older items are used first and keeping an eye on expiry dates, especially for items with shorter shelf lives.
  • Budget Management: Monitoring expenses and staying within budget constraints, seeking cost-effective options, and negotiating with suppliers if possible.
  • Record Keeping: Documenting orders, deliveries, and usage to maintain an up-to-date record for budgeting,
  • Liaison with Staff: Communicating with clinical and administrative staff
  • Adhering to Policies and Compliance: Ensuring that all procurement activities meet organisational and legal standards, including compliance with health and safety guidelines.
  • Managing Emergency Supplies: Maintaining a small reserve of critical supplies for unforeseen demands or emergency use.,
  • Maintain high standards of cleanliness and hygiene in line with health and safety protocols.
  • Collaborate with team members while also working independently to complete tasks effectively.
  • Communicate professionally with patients, staff, and regional community services.
  • Inventory Management: Regularly checking stock levels to ensure adequate supplies, including contraceptives, STI testing kits, medical gloves, sanitisers, swabs, and other essential items. This includes maintaining a well-organized inventory system.
  • Order Placement: Accurately placing orders with approved suppliers when stock reaches reorder levels, while prioritising items with high turnover or essential use to prevent shortages.
  • Receiving and Checking Orders: Verifying incoming orders against purchase orders, checking for accuracy, and ensuring all items are accounted for, properly packaged, and within expiry dates.
  • Stock Rotation and Expiry Monitoring: Organising stock to ensure older items are used first and keeping an eye on expiry dates, especially for items with shorter shelf lives.
  • Budget Management: Monitoring expenses and staying within budget constraints, seeking cost-effective options, and negotiating with suppliers if possible.
  • Record Keeping: Documenting orders, deliveries, and usage to maintain an up-to-date record for budgeting, audits, and tracking supply usage trends.
  • Liaison with Staff: Communicating with clinical and administrative staff to understand supply needs, get feedback on product quality, and update them on any delays or substitutions.
  • Adhering to Policies and Compliance: Ensuring that all procurement activities meet organisational and legal standards, including compliance with health and safety guidelines.
  • Managing Emergency Supplies: Maintaining a small reserve of critical supplies for unforeseen demands or emergency use.
  • Continuous Improvement: Identifying areas for process improvement, such as reducing wastage, optimising order quantities, and reviewing vendor performance for efficiency gains., The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working. The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24. Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £23 (standard disclosure) or £43 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment. DBS applications submitted from 2nd December will be subject to the new DBS fee of £26.50 (standard) and £54.50 (Enhanced). From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years. Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa. This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults' policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures. Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation. All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action. As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence., 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.

    Axess Sexual Health is seeking a dedicated and detail-oriented housekeeper to join our team. The ideal candidate will bring a positive attitude, a strong sense of responsibility, and a commitment to maintaining health, safety, and hygiene standards. Working across our three Liverpool sites - the Linda McCartney Centre, Garston, and The Beat - the post holder will ensure that our facilities are clean, safe, and welcoming for both patients and staff.,
  • Knowledge of cleaning/ CoSHH

    Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
  • The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience. The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.

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