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Band 3 Senior Housekeeper

The Emergency Department and Emergency Assessment Unit at The John Radcliffe Hospital currently has a vacancy for a senior housekeeper.

The successful applicant will be proactive, used to working with the public in a fast-paced environment, with excellent communication and organisational skills. The successful applicant will work with our well-established housekeeping team to ensure the efficient working of both departments. We are looking to recruit a motivated individual who can use their initiative and is able to work unsupervised.

We would ideally require working morning shifts on Thursdays and Fridays.

To work as an integral part of the Emergency Medicine team ensuring a high-quality service to patients and to provide a service that ensures that the patients’ needs are satisfied and requirements are met

To assist the Emergency Medicine team to ensure that the appropriate and effective delivery of facilities services in order to properly maintain the patient environment

To supervise an effective waste segregation and disposal service ensuring compliance with all relevant procedures and legislation

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.

The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital , Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH You Tube channel .

Many of our recruitment programmes use Value Based Interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significant difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families. For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached.

Please do not hesitate to contact us for any informal visit or if you have any questions prior to applying.