# Bank Housekeeper

**Company**: Spire Portsmouth Hospital
**Location**: Havant, Hampshire
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Job type**: part-time
**Category**: Facilities & Maintenance
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Spire Portsmouth Hospital is looking for a Housekeeper to carry out housekeeping duties throughout the hospital, on a flexible working basis.

The successful candidate will complete cleaning schedules ensuring rooms are ready to the correct layout. As a Bank Housekeeper, you will mainly cover shifts for sickness and annual leave.

**Responsibilities:**

- Maintain high standards of cleanliness throughout the hospital in line with the housekeeping and infection control policy

- Complete cleaning schedules related to the shift, ensuring rooms are ready for immediate occupation and public areas are clean

- Keep in close contact with the Senior Housekeeper and report any concerns regarding housekeeping issues immediately

- Work in close liaison with clinical staff, understanding the special needs of the hospital on a day-to-day basis

- Responsible for day-to-day maintenance of equipment provided, checking for faults and supply shortages, and reporting them to the line manager

- Ensure compliance with all Health and Safety at Work regulations, including COSHH

- Work with guidance on moving and handling, as identified in corporate and local policy and discussed at Mandatory training sessions

- Maintain quality assurance and patient confidentiality at all times

**Requirements:**

- Experience in a customer-facing environment

- Previous housekeeping experience is desirable but not essential

- Experience working unsupervised and on own initiative, prioritising tasks

- A positive and flexible approach to customer service

- Good communication skills

**Hours:** 0 hours ad-hoc shifts. Must be available for a mixture of Mon-Fri 7am-3pm or 2pm-10pm; Sat and Sun 7am-3pm or 11am-7pm

**Benefits:**

- Bank colleagues are paid weekly

- Competitive rates for bank colleagues working on a flexible basis

- Free onsite car park, saving an average of £50 per month

- Access to Spire Healthcare pension

- Access to Blue Light Card discounts

- Free uniform

- Free DBS

- Full induction, including mandatory training updates

- Opportunities for further training and progression into permanent posts

## Skills

### Required
- customer service
- communication skills
- housekeeping

### Nice to have
- previous housekeeping experience

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