Housekeeper | East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust


Company:	East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
Salary:	£25,272 pro rata
Hours:	Part-time
Location:	Blackburn, BB2 3HH
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	12 Nov 2026
Closing date:	12 Dec 2026

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Summary

A vacancy has arisen for a highly motivated colleague to join our friendly team in Outpatients at RBTH

We are looking for a Housekeeper to work alongside clinical colleagues maintaining the environment and ensuring best possible patient experience

The post directly involves a wide range of duties including maintaining the department environment, ensuring a high standard of departmental cleanliness, stock control and nutritional related duties.

General Outpatients is a busy department open Monday to Friday facilitating a wide variety of clinics.

The Housekeeper role will be worked over 5 days from 7am -11am

• Maintain privacy and dignity for all patients at all times.

• To play a key role in ensuring the Department environment is well maintained and clean.

• To work with estates services and ward team to ensure all fixtures and fitting are in order.

• To communicate well with patients and families.

• To support Department staff in project work and new developments.

• Ensuring that the Department is of a high standard of cleanliness in all areas, and give assistance when appropriate.

• Ensuring ward cleaning checklists are meaningfully completed and report any concerns to Department Sister.

• Cleaning of equipment and organisation of Department kitchen

• Reporting any faults with fixtures and fittings and maintaining accurate logs of jobs reported. Escalate to Department sister or Lead Sister any delays by estates.

• Implement Infection Control principles, ensuring Department environment is compliant with infection control policy.

• Preparation of clinic areas

• Participate in the auditing of the Department environment including Couch audits and report any concerns.

• Ensure Department linen is adequately stored in accordance with Trust policy

• General tidiness of all Department areas and encouragement to team members.

• Ordering of Department provisions via computer ensuring that all stocks delivered to the ward are appropriately stored.

• To support Department manager to ensure storage areas are organised in accordance with productive ward and lean working principles.

This advert closes on Thursday 26 Nov 2026

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