Support Service Assistant

Are you looking for a role where you can go home at the end of the day knowing that you have helped to ensure the Trust premises are a clean and safe environment for clients, visitors and staff?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and enthusiastic person to work as part of the Support Services/Facilities Team at The Bennett Centre, Stoke-on-Trent.

Band 2 - £23,615 per annum pro rata, part time.

This post is 18 hours, five days over seven, to provide domestic services at The Bennett Centre and relief domestic services across other trust sites.

You will be primarily based at The Bennett Centre on Mondays and Tuesdays but will be required to be flexible and work in other premises to provide relief domestic services across the Trust premises Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.

Hours and days will be variable.

Support Services Assistants within the Facilities Team provide a professional in-house specialist cleaning service.

We offer a clean, comfortable and safe environment for patients, clients, visitors and staff and members of the general public., As a Support Service Domestic Assistant you will be expected to maintain a clean and hygienic environment for patients, visitors and staff in line with the National Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness. You will be responsible on a day-to-day basis to provide a full domestic cleaning service to patient areas, offices and departments in accordance with work schedules, policies and procedures. Youwill work as part of a team to provide cover for each other during annual leave, sickness and absence., For 2024/2025, we have launched our "Proud to be Green" engagement campaign which is aligned to the targets set out in our Green Plan. As a Trust, you can be assured that we will commit to supporting you in working towards our net zero ambitions, set out in our Green Plan, through our sustainability programme".

The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.

As a Trust, we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.

We pride ourselves onensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.

We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world's first 'carbon net zero' national health system by 2045 (Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk). As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike.