Responsibilities
- To work as a fully integrated member of the multi-disciplinary team in providing a safe and appropriate environment for patients and families.
- To maintain an excellent standard of cleanliness and tidiness within the department environment, to ensure Infection Control cleaning is maintained, in partnership with the Facilities Team.
- Terminal Cleaning of Medical equipment and Incubators and cots.
- To ensure efficient organisation and provision of food and beverages for patients, if working in an area where patients eat and drink. Maintaining and documenting Refrigerator temperatures for medicine and specimen samples
- To maintain stores and adequate stock levels of consumables, by completing the orders in a timely manner.
- To support under direction, the ward activity to enable patient flow and capacity.
- To work as part of the department team to ensure that an excellent standard of cleanliness and tidiness is maintained. This includes clinical areas, all medical equipment and additional equipment appropriate to the clinical place of work and as included in the ward cleaning schedules and room cleaning job plan.
- To ensure that the patient bed spaces/rooms/theatre are cleaned daily and kept clean and tidy to ensure a safe environment, working with the nursing/midwifery staff, child/young person and family. This includes cleaning of bed spaces and rooms in between patients.
- To ensure that all empty bed spaces are set up and ready for use at all times.
About the Trust
Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.
Birmingham Children’s Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.
Birmingham Women’s Hospital is one of two dedicated women’s hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.
Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.
Contact
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Precious Nyagumbo Job title: Head of Nursing Email address: p.nyagumbo@nhs.net
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