Housekeeper - Cirencester Hospital

Would you like to join our existing small and friendly housekeeping team at Cirencester Hospital? We are looking for someone to cover cleaning and catering across the hospital to ensure a welcoming, clean, and safe environment for our patients, their families and the wider team working on site. The housekeeping role is an essential part of the day to day running of the hospital and ensures our patients and their families experience a high quality service. You'll be part of a great team of 30 housekeepers and porters, supported by 3 Supervisors and our Facilities Managers on site. Cirencester Hospital offers inpatient and outpatient services, a Minor Injuries Unit and x-ray and ultrasound services, occupational therapy and physiotherapy. The hospital supports 49 inpatient beds across two wards. If you are willing to learn and will give us your time and commitment, we will give you all the training necessary to be a part of this great team and contribute to the success of our community hospital .Main duties of the job We pride ourselves on providing a clean environment for our patients and colleagues, this role involves carrying out the daily cleaning schedule as well as additional cleaning duties as required. You will work alongside patients, colleagues and other visitors to our site; being professional and ensuring that you are working within the Trust Values and policies. This role also involves delivering patient meals and drinks on our inpatient wards.

We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust. The annual NHS Staff Survey gives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust. For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views (58.5%). It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that:

• 89.7% believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users;
• 73.3% would recommend the organisation as a place to work;
• 82.4% agree that care of patients and service users is the organisations priority;
• 76.7% would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative
Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West. However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC a Great Place to Work.