Job overview

The community inpatients service is based across four hospital locations in Cambridgeshire: Brookfields Hospital in Cambridge, Princess of Wales in Ely,  North Cambridgeshire Hospital in Wisbech and ICU based at City Care Centre, Peterborough. These four units provide rehabilitation to patients after prolonged periods of care in acute hospitals or whilst recovering from physical injuries.

The multidisciplinary rehabilitation team delivers programmes of care to help people recover from their injuries, whilst helping them prepare to return to normal living, or make a smooth transition to long term, palliative or residential care.

This vacancy will be based at Cambridge Rehab Unit, Brookfields Hospital

Main duties of the job

The Housekeeping Assistant’s role is to assist the ward team to provide a high standard of care to the patient, through maintaining a clean, tidy and safe environment and providing for patients’ eating and drinking needs. 

The postholder will:

• Order diets using patients care plan
• Prepare vacant beds for new arrivals
• Clean and tidy patients lockers & tables.
• Assist in removing used clinical waste bags according to infection control policy.

Working for our organisation

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead fulfilling lives. 

Our clinical teams deliver a wide range of NHS services across inpatient, primary care and community settings, including children’s, adult and older people’s mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, and research and development.

To achieve our goals, we recruit high calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from all sections of the community, particularly underrepresented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities. 

All appointments for new employees to CPFT are subject to the successful completion of a probationary period.  

Please note we reserve the right to close adverts early should we receive sufficient applications. 

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all roles. If you apply for a post that does not attract sponsorship, your application will be withdrawn from the process. 

For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at https://www.cpft.nhs.uk