About this role
Job summary Package Description: As a Soft Services General Assistant, youll be part of our valued team at St Martin's Hospital in Bath You will feel valued as a Soft Services General Assistant within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: A salary of £25,500 FTE with access to a group pension Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location Job Introduction As a Soft Services General Assistant, you will work closely with the Facilities Soft Services Team Leader and other Facilities Colleagues within the friendly and supportive Soft Services Team to provide domestic and catering services within a hospital environment.
Main duties of the job As a Soft Services General Assistant, youll be part of our valued team at St Martin's Hospital in Bath. You will feel valued within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including a salary of £25,500 FTE, group pension, access to wages as you earn them, and mental and physical wellbeing support. The role involves providing domestic and catering services within a hospital environment and is primarily based between Paulton Memorial Hospital and St Martins Community Hospital, thus requiring a valid UK driving license. You will play an important role in cleaning, catering, and portering, following NHS Cleaning Standards, and undertaking stock control and goods transportation using a company van. Unfortunately, sponsorship is not offered. Applicants must be willing to undertake NVQ Level 3 Food Hygiene if not already qualified and hold a clean driving license. The position supports the future of HCRG Care Group and its initiative of changing lives by transforming health and care services.
About us HCRG Care Group, established in 2006, is one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services. Working with health and care commissioners, the group aims to transform services with a focus on improving experience, efficiency, and outcomes. HCRG delivers adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology, MSK services, adult social care, and wellbeing services. Supporting communities across England, it helps more than half a million people each year. With core values of caring, thinking, and doing, HCRG is committed to equal opportunities and encourages applications from diverse backgrounds. It is a Disability Confident Committed company focusing on inclusivity by providing facilities, work environment adjustments, and technical solutions. HCRG ensures safeguarding and protecting the children, young people, and vulnerable adults it serves and has policies and procedures promoting safer working practices as part of its recruitment process.
Job description Job responsibilities Package Description:
Package Description
As a Soft Services General Assistant, youll be part of our valued team atSt Martin's Hospitalin Bath
You will feel valued as a Soft Services General Assistant within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
A salary of £25,500 FTE with access to a group pension Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission Free tea, coffee and milk at your base locationJob Introduction
As a Soft Services General Assistant, you will work closely with the Facilities Soft Services Team Leader and other Facilities Colleagues within the friendly and supportive Soft Services Team to provide domestic and catering services within a hospital environment.
This role is varied and dynamic offering a variety of activities to support and enable the delivery of HCRG Care Group Community Services.
This role is primarily based between Paulton Memorial Hospital and St Martins Community Hospital so being able and willing to travel across sites is essential for this role.
A valid UK driving licence is an essential requirement for this role due to the requirement to drive a company van.
Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship at this time.
A full list of responsibilities can be found in the attached job description.
Main Responsibilities
The Soft Services General Assistant will play an important role in the future of HCRG Care Group and the Soft Services Team for delivering all aspects of Soft Services. This will include, but may not be limited to; cleaning, catering and portering
The cleaning element of the role will include:
Day to day cleaning of a variety of areas, such as, staff and public amenities, offices, meeting and training spaces, clinical outpatient areas and clinical inpatients areas as per cleaning schedules that enable us to be compliant with NHS Cleaning Standard. Ad hoc and periodic cleaning as per NHS Cleaning Standards such as high level cleans, carpet cleaning, rotary wash, external jet washing of pathways, bins and fleet vehicles Reactive cleaning such as Deep Cleans, spills and leaksThe catering element of the role will include:
Ward Kitchen food and drink service Catering block (St Martins) food preparation and managementThe Portering element of the role will include:
Stock control Goods in services Ward Clean downs Transportation between sites of equipment and supplies, using company van
The Ideal Candidate
Range of work procedures and practices, base level of theoretical knowledge plus experience relevant to the post - essential Facilities in house training program to be completed within agreed time scale essential It is essential that the applicant be willing to undertake NVQ Level 3 Food Hygiene, if not already qualified in order to fulfil this role to undertake duties in the catering block. Current full clean driving license and use of a car during working hours.
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes.We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services.Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team.Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As youd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
Finally, we need to let you know that the company youll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job well need to process and hold information about you.If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Range of work procedures and practices, base level of theoretical knowledge plus experience relevant to the post is essential. Facilities in-house training program completion within an agreed time scale is essential. Willingness to undertake NVQ Level 3 Food Hygiene if not already qualified is required, and a current full clean driving license along with the use of a car during working hours is essential for this role.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details Employer name HCRG Care Group
Address HCRG Care Group
Bath
BA2 5RP
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/ (Opens in a new tab)