Housekeeper - Alexandra Ward

As a Housekeeper your main duties will be around providing a clean and safe environment in which acutely unwell patients can be cared for to a high standard. Although you will not be involved directly in patient care you will be interacting with patients on the ward as well as staff members from a multitude of departments and areas such as stores, the equipment library, domestic staff, and ward ward administrators as well as the nursing and nursing assistant team., Your main duties will include:

• Ensuring that the ward is adequately stocked over a 7 day period with all essential items necessary to provide care for patients and be able to trouble shoot appropriately where there is a problem.
• To assist in the cleaning and organising of the ward environment including storage areas, sluices, clinical rooms and corridors.
• To take part in various audits and inventories around environment on the ward and take actions if required.
• Keep a regular stock and track of essential equipment on the ward and ensure that it is charged, clean and working and ready to use
• To keep a log to track equipment sent to medical equipment for repairs or loaned to other departments and ensure it is returned.
• To help with lost property on the ward and help reconcile lost items to patients.
• Ensure our storage areas are organised and easy to navigate on a daily basis. This includes shelves dedicated to dietary supplies and, for example, cardiac monitoring equipment or moving and handling equipment.
• To regularly audit, escalate and resolve any issues around fixtures, furniture or fittings on the ward.
• To help patients with their enquiries on the ward and assist in tasks such as getting newspapers for patients etc.
  
  We are looking for a person with excellent communication skills who is very organised, tidy and focused. You will be working in a very busy environment and you will be required to work on your own initiative as well as part of a team. Basic computer skills are essential.
Previous experience in healthcare is desired but not essential.

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation. We are among the UK's busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark. We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and - as part of King's Health Partners - we are one of England's eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research's biomedical research centres, established with King's College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.