Bank Cleanliness Standards Auditor - Band 2
Job overview
Join our friendly team of Cleanliness Standards Auditors at the Royal United Hospital in Bath.
Your role will include daily audits of all areas of the hospital, feeding your results back to our Cleaning team and other important stakeholders.
You'll provide a vital service, helping to ensure that high standards of hospital cleanliness are maintained, improving patient safety.
Main duties of the job
The Cleanliness Standards Auditor monitors the performance of cleanliness standards in all areas of the hospital; this is based on National Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness 2021 (NSHC 2021) and under the direction of the Audit Manager. They’ll support the Audit Manager with quality assurance, improvement processes, and strengthen stakeholder relationships.
In line with the NSHC 2021, the monitoring of cleaning standards will include cleaning responsibilities within the Cleaning Services, Nursing Teams and Estates Teams.
The role may also include the monitoring of catering food hygiene standards will include retail catering cleaning responsibilities, in line with our ISO 9001:2015 Quality Manual.
The role requires excellent communication skills, basic computer literacy, being comfortable with learning how to use the audit software, and able to adapt workload to unplanned changes.
Working for our organisation
At the RUH we’re proud to put people at the heart of what we do, working together as one team to make a difference for our patients, each other, and our community. No matter what your role is, we value everyone’s contribution in supporting the exceptional, person-centred care we pride ourselves on.
We are committed to creating a compassionate and inclusive environment. This can be seen in our growing community of staff networks – celebrating successes and creating opportunities to listen and learn. We value our differences, champion kindness and civility, and truly believe that diversity makes us stronger.
A culture of learning, developing and innovating is the thread that runs throughout our whole organisation. We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential.
We value staff wellbeing, with a well-established programme of support. We believe in a holistic approach spanning all aspects of living a healthy life, including physical, emotional, spiritual and financial wellbeing. We’ve even got a pool!
We are committed to supporting you and hope you want to join our team. In the meantime, find out more aboutliving and working the beautiful historic city of Bath, learn about our extensive package of staff benefits, and read about how we’re providing healthcare fit for the future with the landmark Dyson Cancer Centre and our passion for research.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please find attached detailed to the vacancy a person specification and job description for further information.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- General education to GCSE level or equivalent
- Cleaning standards qualification BICS or NVQ Level 2 Food Hygiene Certificate
Knowledge
Essential criteria- Competently use computers, Office software (Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook), Teams
- Previous healthcare experience in cleaning management
- Experience of auditing/monitoring standards
- Experience of using C4C (cloud-based) system, or electronic cleaning audit tool