The facilities department employ a variety of support staff to help maintain a clean, safe and welcoming environment. As a Facilities Management Assistant you will provide a range of tasks which will primarily involve catering, food preparation duties. You will be required to prepare and serve meals within our in-patient area. The role will also involve the cleaning of clinical and non-clinical areas. The role of the Facilities Management Assistant (FMA) remains an integral part of our service delivery, carrying out a range of facilities tasks and ensuring that catering and cleaning standards are achieved and maintained.
Base: Mossley Hill Hospital, Park Drive, Liverpool, L18 8BU
This is an exciting opportunity to be involved in the opening of a new Mersey Care Hospital, working with other teams to ensure the safety of new introduced services users to the Hospital and keeping the Hospital up to standard.
Applications are invited from hard working, self-motivated individuals who are able to work on their own initiative and also as part of a team. You must have a flexible approach to your workload, be able to work to deadlines and have high standards of quality in your work.
You will need to demonstrate an understanding of the need to deal with service users and staff in a helpful and supportive manner. You must have good communication skills, a positive attitude and an understanding of health and safety in relation to safe working practices.
Previous experience of hospital catering and cleaning duties and specifically a catering provision within a mental health environment would be an advantage, however, training will be provided. You will be expected to have or acquire an appropriate Food Hygiene certificate and must have basic computer skills.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Ellis Jones Job title: Assistant Site Manager Email address:
[email protected] Telephone number: 07741614324
