Job Description

To support and deliver a full Patient Environment cleaning service. Delivering an enhanced patient experience and support the Trust in providing a cohesive, cost effective, efficient and fully compliant Environmental Cleanliness service.

To maintain the standards set out in the National Clearing Standards and improving compliance with the Patient Led Assessments of the Care Environment. To be able to work on your own initiative with the support and guidance of the Housekeeper Coordinator(s).

• Ensure a clean environment for patient care in accordance with Trust Local policies, health and safety requirements, NHS National Specification of Cleaning Standards, Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH), and Patient Led Assessments of the Care Environment (PLACE), audits.
• Adhere to Infection Prevention & Control principles specifically ‘Hand Hygiene’ and ‘Bare below the Elbow’.
• Adhere to the Trust’s Uniform Appearance Code/ Policy at all times maintaining a high standard of appearance and personal hygiene at all times.

Duties Include, but are not limited to:

• Vacuum cleaning
• Damp mopping of floors
• Damp dusting of furniture/fittings
• Cleaning of mirrors and internal glass
• Sanitary ware for example, baths, showers, sinks, toilets, washing of tiled surfaces and paintwork
• High dusting of walls and ceilings (to shoulder height)
• High level cleaning, above shoulder height to be undertaken by ‘Housekeeping enhanced clean team’
• Floor maintenance
• Changing of all curtains
• Provide focused cleaning practices (Hydrochloride based products and solutions) when presented with an infected area (Barrier rooms and Bays)
• Assist the enhanced clean team with deep clean/terminal cleans when necessary (in-patient areas)
• During outbreaks of infections i.e. diarrhoea and vomiting, Clostridium Difficile, Norovirus etc.