Part-time Housekeeper - Witney Community Hospital, Oxford

Witney, England, United Kingdom

5/12/2025

We are recruiting for a part-time Housekeeper to join our friendly, enthusiastic and dedicated team at Witney Community Hospital.

This role enhances the patient experience by providing a high-quality cleaning and catering service. You'll be ensuring a clean, safe environment is maintained and provide catering provisions for clients, for which in-house training will be provided.

The role involves shift working including lates, earlies, weekends, and bank holidays over a rolling rota, whereby weekend and banks holidays are paid at an enhanced rate.

If you're a team player with a proven track record of being able to deliver a high-quality cleaning service, this could be the role for you, and we want to hear from you!

• Cleaning and maintaining the patient rooms, public areas, back of house areas such as linen room and laundry areas, according to Trust policy and procedures at a level that meets or exceeds National Cleanliness standards.
• Plan own work in-line with the daily cleaning routines and cleaning tasks as per rota.
• Carry out terminal and enhanced cleans as per local procedures
• Participate in cleaning audits as necessary
• Handle and remove waste in line with segregation processes and procedures
• Unpack and stack all linen and laundry.
• Regenerate cook/chill meals recording the temperatures of food at stages defined as appropriate within the relevant wards.
  
  

Please refer to the job description attached for a comprehensive list of duties

Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the “candidate guide to making an application” and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.

As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”

Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”

At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Competitive pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
  
  

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Marie Dunstan Job title: Facilities Manager Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 01865 902763

At Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust we want to employ people not just with experience, but with the aptitude and motivation to succeed and whose values resonate with our own.

Therefore, if you don’t meet all the requirements of the role and are unsure about applying but are excited about the opportunity, please do get in touch. We will be happy to discuss the requirements in more detail ahead of making a written application.