Fleet Ancillary Mobile Premise Cleaner - Keighley - NHS

Job overview

Yorkshire Ambulance Services, Ancillary Services Team, are offering an opportunity for a 37.5 hours per week, Mobile Premise Cleaner, working out of our Keighley Ambulance Station

• Monday - Friday
• 07:00 - 15:00

Allocated Bank Holiday working is required.

Please ensure you read and understand the attached job description before completing your application. Completion of the Supporting Information section within your application is essential and should include all relevant experience, knowledge to match the Person Specification within the Job Description.

Main duties of the job

Duties will include:

• To undertake cleaning, , and other associated tasks to meet the high standards of cleanliness
• To ensure that all activities are performed in line with the Trust Cleaning Protocols, procedures, and specific daily work schedules. Achieving and maintaining all required standards of cleanliness across the organization. Our cleaning schedules include entrances and foyers, public and staff washrooms/toilets, kitchens, canteens/restaurant’s, gym's, shower rooms, training rooms, corridors, stairs, landings, lifts, offices, contact centres, storerooms, dirty utility rooms, crew rooms, external areas, and other associated areas.
• To ensure adequate stocks of cleaning materials are maintained and to record all daily activities. This will include urgent spillage cleaning and deep cleaning where identified.

Working for our organisation

Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) NHS Trust geographically covers nearly 6,000 square miles of varied terrain, from isolated moors and dales to urban areas, coastline and inner cities.

We serve a population of over five million people across Yorkshire and the Humber and strive to ensure that patients receive the right response to their care needs as quickly as possible, wherever they live.

We employ more than 7,100 staff, who together with over 1,300 volunteers, enable us to provide a vital 24-hour, seven-days-a-week, emergency and healthcare service.

Our ambition is to be an employer of choice, and we are continuously working across our partnership to improve our collective offer to staff in areas like health and wellbeing, benefits and flexible working incl. hybrid working.

• Flexible working including part-time hours, job shares and flexible hours, agile working (role dependant)
• 27 days annual leave, increasing to 33 with service.
• Contributory Pension.
• NHS Discounts including shops, restaurants, gyms etc.
• salary sacrifice schemes.
• Dedicated employee assistance and counselling service.
• Opportunities for research participation, career progression and ongoing development.
• Well respected, committed and supported staff networks for our workforce.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification, for a full breakdown of duties and requirements within this role

A flexible and can-do attitude towards ad-hoc changes in scheduled work, and any potential alternative location support cover within your shift is required. As short notice changers can occur, due to the required site support needs and the nature of the Emergency Services health care provision.

Can you work alone to effectively plan essential given tasks to ensure overall completion, within limited time restraints and communicate effectively with senior staff?

When completing this application, please ensure you read the person specification and ensure you identify how you meet these specifications within your application.

Successful candidate will be required to undertake a basic 12–15-minute Physical capability assessment.

Person specification

Experience & work achievements

• Previous workplace premise cleaning experience

Personal attributes

• Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team
• Willingness to undertake role specific training including NVQ 2 Cleaning & Support Services or agreed equivalent.
• Flexibility to work out of hours and bank holidays as and when identified to meet service and development/training requirements
• Current Full driving License which is valid in the UK

Knowledge & education

• Good literacy and numerical skills in order to complete daily worksheets and reports.
• Basic IT Skills including use of keyboard, hand held data devices and telephones.
• Awareness of Workplace Health and Safety, COSHH, Risk Assessments and IP&C preferably associated to standard procedures and practices within the cleaning services sector