Porter / Cleaner - Abingdon Community Hospital

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.

We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you’re excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.

We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.

Good luck and we hope to hear from you.

Job overview

This is an opportunity for a hard working and caring individual to join a highly motivated, dedicated team of Porters and Housekeeping Team at Abingdon Community Hospital.

We're looking for reliable, flexible, and good team players who possess good interpersonal and communication skills with previous experience of moving and handling.

If you have a proven track record of being able to deliver a high-quality portering and cleaning service this could be the role for you and we want to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

You will be providing a high-quality porter and cleaning service. The aim of this role is to ensure a clean and safe environment for patients and staff. Duties include:

• Receive and check food deliveries, checking delivery temperature and reporting discrepancies to head housekeeper following food hygiene regulations
• Deliver meals to and from the kitchen onto the ward areas.
• Be available for the movement of patients within the Hospital complex, as required.
• Collection of pharmacy boxes and pathological specimens. (Special arrangements apply on Saturdays and Bank Holidays)
• Collection of dirty linen. Distribution of clean linen at weekends and holidays.
• Collection of refuse and other waste, ensuring that any waste bins in outside public areas are regularly emptied.
• Keeping stores and medical gas compound clean and tidy and kept secure at all times, reviewing medical gas trolleys and delivery medical gas to the relevant departments on

request.

Please refer to the job description attached for a comprehensive list of duties

Working for our organisation

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible

Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”

At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Competitive pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This is a full time role (37.5 hours per week) working on a two week rolling rota to include every other weekend. The shift pattern is as follows:

Week 1- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday working 7am-3pm.

Week 2- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday working 7am-3pm.

Please refer to the job description and guidance notes attached for further information on this role

Person specification

Education

• Ability to pass Numeracy & Literacy test
• Educated to GCSE Level

• Knowledge of Basic Health & Safety Regulations

Experience

• Experience of moving & handling activities
• Basic Cleaning Skills
• Some knowledge of cleaning chemical/materials

• Previous experience as porter/cleaner
• Experience in food handling

Skills

• Ability to work on own or as part of a team
• Good communication skills
• Good Organisational skills

• Basic Computer skills
• All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
• Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
• Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
• We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
• We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
• Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
• Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing