# Housekeeper

**Company**: Fairbrook Medical Centre
**Location**: Borehamwood
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Job type**: part-time
**Salary**: £12.71
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Housekeeper to join our team at Fairbrook Medical Centre, a busy GP surgery in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire. The successful candidate will play a vital role in managing and supporting the day-to-day running of our clinical services. You will be responsible for ensuring that all clinical areas have the appropriate stock needed to run clinics, that ordering is efficient, cost-effective, and timely, and rotated to ensure patient safety at all times.

**Main Duties:**

- Ordering all medical stock for use in clinics

- Ensuring stock ordered has arrived, is in correct working order, and rotating existing stock to ensure patient safety

- Keeping accurate records of orders placed and received

- Regular emergency equipment checks under the direction of the Lead Nurse

- Management of procurement services to ensure efficient and effective balancing of budgets

- Stocking and tidying all clinical areas

- Maintaining calibration and PAT testing service and records yearly

- Management of Equipment loaning service to patients

- Assisting with Health promotion campaigns within the surgery under supervision from Nursing staff

- Liaising with local authorities to provide campaign resources and supplies to help promote public health

**About Us:** We are situated in a busy and well-connected area of Hertfordshire on the North London border with good bus, train, and road links. We are a busy and diverse practice with over 40 clinical and non-clinical staff offering a wide range of General practice services. We are an accredited active practice, as well as an accredited Veteran-friendly practice, and our reviews are consistently good. We are CQC-rated as Good at our most recent inspection and are part of the Herts 5 Primary care Network.

**Person Specification:**

- Experience: Desirable - working in Primary care or similar healthcare environment

- Additional skills: Essential - Good interpersonal skills, ability to work in a team, reliable, motivated to learn

- Qualifications: Essential - Working knowledge of Word, Excel, and proficient in general IT skills, organisational skills, attention to detail, problem-solving skills, ability to prioritise tasks when faced with multiple demands, ability to show initiative

- Desirable: Some knowledge of medical terminology or previous experience in General practice

**Benefits:**

- Salary: £12.71 per hour

- Permanent contract

- Part-time working pattern

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## Skills

### Required
- interpersonal skills
- team work
- organisational skills
- attention to detail
- problem-solving skills
- prioritisation
- initiative
- Word
- Excel
- IT skills

### Nice to have
- medical terminology
- previous experience in General practice

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