Housekeeper - Theatres
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Prescot, L35 5DRView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£25,272
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
2 November 2026
13 days leftJob description
Full or Part time working over 6 days a week Mon - Sat The post holder may be involved in all aspects of indirect patient care under direct supervisio...
- To work as part of the multi-disciplinary team undertaking household support tasks
- To accept responsibility for specifically delegated functions within theatres which the Team Leader feels are appropriate for untrained staff to undertake.
- To ensure the health and Safety of patients and staff are considered at all times
- To ensure that privacy and confidentiality of patients is paramount and is not compromised.
- To be aware and assist with maintaining stock levels in theatres for clinical and non-clinical items
- Ensure that theatre supplies are appropriately stored and that stocks are at the levels set by the materials management tea
- All stock is to be checked against delivery note and put away when brought from logistics on a weekly/daily basis and ensure correct correspondence with purchase invoices and report any discrepancies
- To ensure stock is rotated according to their expiry dates. To ensure the theatre department including non-clinical areas are clean and tidy at all times.
- To maintain staff changing room.
- To ensure the scrubs holding area is clean and tidy at all times.
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
- Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
- Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
- National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme.
Qualifications
Essential: - Educated to GCSE Level or equivalent, in English and Maths
Desirable: - Food/Hygiene Certificate
Knowledge
Essential: - Experience working within a Health Care setting
Skills
Essential: - Ability to work autonomously and as part of a multi-disciplinary Team; - Ability to use own initiative; - Effective communication skills; - Computer literate
Other
Essential: - Flexible approach to working
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Provenance
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First seen
19 October 2026
Last checked
20 October 2026
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