House Keeper

The job involves serving all meals, ensuring hand hygiene to patients has been completed and to offer and serve drinks to patients.

Following meal times you will keep nursing staff updated about patients dietary intake and complete food diaries. Also assist pts with meals and liase with pts families

The role also involves keeping the kitchen clean according to trust guidelines and stock control of kitchen supplies.

The role includes providing assistance as requested to patients and other staff working in the department.

At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding hospital and health services to half a million people. Established on 1st October 2019, the Trust is creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout north Cumbria and beyond. We're responsible for delivering over 70 services across 15 main locations and we employ more than 6,500 members of staff.

Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of 'safe, high quality care every time'.

As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.

Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. There is an expectation for all staff to support this by familiarising yourself with the Trust's sustainability initiatives such as waste and recycling, going paperless, videoconferencing, sustainable transport and others.

We encourage you to think about what you can do as an individual and within your team to contribute in to embedding carbon reduction into the everyday running of our organisation.

Qualifications

Essential: - oGood standard of general education; - oFood safety/hygiene certificate

Desirable: - oNVQ 1 in hotel services/food service or equivalent or equivalent experience

Knowledge and Experience

Essential: - oBasic food hygiene; - oInfection prevention; - oConfidentiality.; - oPrevious experience of working in a customer service/caring environment

Skills and Aptitudes

Desirable: - IT skills

Other Requirements

Essential: - oWilling to undertake work related training and development