Senior Housekeeper

• To liaise with the cleaning contractor/in-house housekeeping services/Monitoring Officers to ensure that cleaning standards on the Wards meet the agreed specification and any unsatisfactory areas are rectified • To work effectively with the cleaning and catering staff as well as their supervisors to ensure that standards and policies are met. • To liaise with the nursing and housekeeping team regarding the patients day, ensuring that work is planned in the most appropriate way to provide a prioritised patient focused and seamless servi • To ensure, in conjunction with the ward co-ordinator, that patients are provided with appropriate beverages at regular intervals throughout the day. To make and serve beverages to relatives as instructed by the nursing staff and to ensure that patients have the necessary access to beverages throughout their stay in hospit • To ensure that all patients have completed menu cards, giving assistance where necessary, and ensuring appropriate selections are made dependent on the patients dietary requiremen Ensure that the menus are returned to the catering department by the required time. • To ensure, in conjunction with the catering department that patient meals are served in a presentable and timely manner and that appropriate cutlery and condiments are supplied, as well as ensuring supplements are given to the patients/stored appropriately. • Assist with feeding dependent patients (following training and assessment of competence) and document accordingly. • To ensure that at the end of every meal and beverage service all cutlery, crockery and condiments are removed from the patient area and correctly stored, disposed of, or returned to the main k To ensure that all meal tables and eating areas are suitably prepared for mealtimes and to make sure they are wiped clean at the end of each meal. To offer assistance to patients before and after meals to cleanse their hands. • To ensure patients have an appropriate supply of drinking water and a clean g • To physically ensure that patients can reach their food and assist patients as necessary e.g. removing lids and cutting up food where requir • To maintain patient privacy, dignity and confidentiality at all tim Job description Job responsibilities • To liaise with the cleaning contractor/in-house housekeeping services/Monitoring Officers to ensure that cleaning standards on the Wards meet the agreed specification and any unsatisfactory areas are rectified • To work effectively with the cleaning and catering staff as well as their supervisors to ensure that standards and policies are met. • To liaise with the nursing and housekeeping team regarding the patients day, ensuring that work is planned in the most appropriate way to provide a prioritised patient focused and seamless servi • To ensure, in conjunction with the ward co-ordinator, that patients are provided with appropriate beverages at regular intervals throughout the day. To make and serve beverages to relatives as instructed by the nursing staff and to ensure that patients have the necessary access to beverages throughout their stay in hospit • To ensure that all patients have completed menu cards, giving assistance where necessary, and ensuring appropriate selections are made dependent on the patients dietary requiremen Ensure that the menus are returned to the catering department by the required time. • To ensure, in conjunction with the catering department that patient meals are served in a presentable and timely manner and that appropriate cutlery and condiments are supplied, as well as ensuring supplements are given to the patients/stored appropriately. • Assist with feeding dependent patients (following training and assessment of competence) and document accordingly. • To ensure that at the end of every meal and beverage service all cutlery, crockery and condiments are removed from the patient area and correctly stored, disposed of, or returned to the main k To ensure that all meal tables and eating areas are suitably prepared for mealtimes and to make sure they are wiped clean at the end of each meal. To offer assistance to patients before and after meals to cleanse their hands. • To ensure patients have an appropriate supply of drinking water and a clean g • To physically ensure that patients can reach their food and assist patients as necessary e.g. removing lids and cutting up food where requir • To maintain patient privacy, dignity and confidentiality at all tim