Domestic Assistant

Responsibilities

• Undertake cleaning duties as detailed within the domestic method statements, following cleaning schedules and COSHH guidelines.
• Ensure compliance with all aspects of Health & Safety legalisations and correct use of PPE.
• Maintain the hospital environment as laid down in the National standards of Cleanliness.
• Undertake rectifications from the cleaning audit action plans and show continual improvement.
• Assist with beverage service as required and agreed.
• Perform thorough and hygienic cleaning of all domestic equipment and storage areas.
• Attend Trust or required training courses that are relevant to the post as a domestic.
• Request and replenish all cleaning products through effective stock ordering.
• Maintain a high level of personal hygiene.
• Adhere to all Trust/Synchronicity Care Limited (SCL) and Departmental policies and procedures.
• Check all equipment before use and report any faults and defects to supervisor/manager.
• Record and maintain records as required.
• Report any estates issues that have an impact on the cleaning services you provide.
• Undertake any other domestic orientated duties as required.

Specialist Cleaning Activities

• Undertake any specialised cleaning (HPV cleaning) as and when instructed by a supervisor or manager following appropriate protocols and completion of associated documentation.

Trust’s Behaviours Framework

• Work together for patients.
• Patients come first in everything we do.
• Fully involve patients, staff, families, carers, communities, and professionals inside and outside the NHS.
• Speak up when things go wrong.
• Respect and Dignity: value every person and seek to understand their priorities, needs, abilities, and limits.
• Commit to quality of care: ensure quality and strive to get the basics of quality of care safety, effectiveness, and patient experience right every time.
• Compassion: respond with humanity and kindness to each person’s pain, distress, anxiety or need.
• Improve lives: strive to improve health, wellbeing, and people’s experiences of the NHS.
• Everyone counts: maximise resources for the benefit of the whole community, ensuring nobody is discriminated against or left behind.

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