New Year, new career!
Housekeeper Recruitment Day
We’re looking for new recruits to join our Royal Bournemouth Hospital Housekeeping Department.
As part of our Housekeeping Team you will be working closely with colleagues at #TeamUHD to keep our hospital clean, safe and infection free.
If you would like to know more about kick-starting your career in a healthcare setting, then sign up for our recruitment day on 18 January 2025. Click here to register your interest.
Come along for a hospital tour, chat to colleagues already working in the department and find out more about working in our hospital.
We will be offering interviews with our friendly team on the day, and you could be walking away with a job offer to join our #TeamUHD family.
We have opportunities across the Royal Bournemouth Hospital's wards and departments, as well as in our BEACH Building opening in early 2025.
We are open 24 hours a day 7 days a week so can offer shifts across weekdays, weekends, nights, and bank holidays. We have vacancies for part time contracts starting at 16 hours right through to full time of 37.5 hours.
Prefer to work ‘as and when’? There are bank positions available too!
You can compete our expression of interest. Support to complete an application will be available on the day.
Date: Saturday 18 January 2025
Time: 9am - 3pm
Location: Education Centre, Royal Bournemouth Hospital
Main duties of the job
- To clean rooms – bedded areas, kitchens, offices, wards and departments, to include infected areas (infection control driven terminal cleans and barrier cleans).
- To clean furniture, fixtures and fittings.
- To clean toilets and washrooms and replenish the supplies – soap/toilet rolls/hand towels/hand gels.
- Clean floors – damp mopping/dry mopping/vacuuming and using scrubber driers.
- Clean glass/mirrors.
- To empty bins and remove clinical and household waste including cardboard.
- Spot clean walls, doors, floors and partitions.
- Remove soiled linen – change curtains.
- Maintain good hand hygiene at all times to avoid cross contamination
Some of our staff benefits
- Excellent paid training and induction
- 35 days leave (including eight bank holidays), rising to 37 days after five years and 41 days after 10 years.
- Excellent maternity and sick pay packages
- NHS Pension Scheme
- NHS discount schemes including the ‘Blue Light Card’
- Cycle to Work Scheme
If you have any queries please email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call us on 0300 019 4426.
What to expect on the day
- An interview with members of the team.
- If successful a conditional of offer of employment.
- All required pre-employment checks, including ID and DBS (click here to see the acceptable forms of ID you will need to bring with you on the day).
- Vaccinations if required. If you cannot give proof of an MMR, you will need two vaccinations prior to commencing employment. These must be four weeks apart.
- Tour of the new BEACH Building
If you have any queries please email Mandy Weldon at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
