Job summary
Our Domestic Assistant for Residential Accommodation plays a key part in keeping our onsite living spaces clean, welcoming and safe. You’ll be part of a supportive Site Services team, delivering a high-quality cleaning service across our staff accommodation and helping ensure a positive experience for everyone who stays with us.
Why choose us?
This is a great opportunity to be part of a team that genuinely cares about the people who work within our Trust. You’ll be contributing to a clean, comfortable and safe environment for colleagues who rely on our accommodation, making a real difference every day.
We offer a welcoming workplace, consistent hours, and the chance to be part of a team that values reliability, teamwork and pride in a job well done.
Main duties of the job
- Providing a thorough and reliable cleaning service across residential areas
- Working as part of a friendly, collaborative team
- Supporting the service with light administrative tasks
- Adapting to meet the needs of a busy and varied environment
- Removal of dust, dirt and debris from surfaces such as floors, walls, ceilings, fixtures and fittings, doors, ledges, ovens, fridges, glass and sanitary fittings by appropriate specified methods. Vacuum under beds and vents, clean blinds and damp dust bed frames
- Technical maintenance of floor and carpets, including carpet cleaning and floor scrubbing
- Emptying and cleaning waste bins, refuse containers and replacing colour‑coded liners according to Torbay and South Devon Healthcare Clinical Waste Policy and secure and store waste for collection
- Replenishing supplies – toilet rolls, soap etc.
- Assisting in the provision of the Grounds & Gardens maintenance services clearing paths
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training – Essential
- Basic Numeracy and Literacy skills
- Basic Keyboard and IT skills
Qualifications and Training – Desirable
- COSHH & Health and Safety Training
- Customer Services Training
Knowledge – Essential
- Good verbal and written skills
- Ability to work on own
- Ability to work as part of a team withing a range of routine work and procedures
- Advise and demonstrate activities in own area of work to a new or less experienced members in the team
- Enthusiastic Approach
- Multi skilled – flexible
- Pleasant & cheerful
Knowledge – Desirable
- Understand COSHH regulations
- Experience of working in a hospital environment
- Knowledge of industrial equipment
- Experience of working with students and locum agency staffing to provide accommodation services
Skills – Essential
- Experience within a professional cleaning role
- Ability to be polite and considerate even under pressure in a busy environment
- Ability to prioritise tasks
Skills – Desirable
- Experience in cleaning within a healthcare environment
- Proven customer services skills
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
Torbay Hospital, Lowes Bridge, Torquay, TQ2 7AA
Website: https://www.torbayandsouthdevon.nhs.uk
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