Facilities Operatives - Caerphilly

We are seeking motivated and reliable Facilities Operatives to join our Facilities team across Caerphilly within Aneurin Bevan University Health Board.

This is a varied and essential support role, helping to ensure our hospitals run safely, efficiently and compassionately. You will work flexibly across a range of facilities functions, including domestic cleaning, catering services, and hospital portering, with full training provided.

You will be a key part of a large multidisciplinary team delivering high-quality services to patients, visitors and staff, while upholding the Health Board's values, dignity, and infection prevention standards.

You will be expected to work flexibly across services and cover a 7 day rota, including weekends and bank holidays.

Why work for us?

• Play a vital role in supporting patient care and hospital services
• Full training and development opportunities provided
• NHS pension scheme and staff benefits
• A supportive, inclusive working environment

Unsocial Hours Enhancements

In addition to basic salary, the following Agenda for Change unsocial hours enhancements apply:

• Night (8.00pm 6.00am): Time + 41%
• All day Sunday (and Public Holidays): Time + 83%

These enhancements apply where shifts are worked within the stated periods and can increase take home pay.

Main duties of the job

Depending on service need, your duties will include some or all of the following:

Domestic Services

• Delivering high standards of cleaning across patient and non patient areas
• Working to agreed cleaning schedules and outcome based standards
• Carrying out routine, specialist, discharge and rapid response cleaning
• Safely using cleaning equipment, machinery and approved chemicals

Catering

• Prepare basic food items (e.g., sandwiches, salads, beverages)
• Pick and pack regeneration food trollies
• Monitor and record all food temperatures
• Maintain excellent standards of food hygiene, cleanliness and infection control, following policies and procedures
• Carry out cleaning duties in kitchens, ward pantries and service areas
• Support retail catering services, including till operation and customer service
• Maintaining stock levels and safe storage of provisions, equipment and materials
• Working closely with clinical teams and Facilities colleagues

Transportation

• Transporting patients including sensitive transfers
• Transportation of goods, specimens, blood products, equipment and linen across hospital sites

Waste Management

• Waste management collection and environmental duties, including litter collection
• Receipt and distributing goods

Other Duties

• Treating patients, visitors and staff with courtesy, dignity and respect

About us

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.

We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.

Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world class healthcare service fit for the future.

Job responsibilities

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Person Specification Skills

• Ability to follow instructions and procedures
• Strong customer care and communication skills
• Flexible to the needs of the service and able to work as part of a team
• Willingness to undertake mandatory training (e.g., food hygiene, infection control)
• Ability to undertake manual handling requirements of the role
• Ability to remain effective under pressure
• Self motivated and enthusiastic
• Ability to work under pressure
• Able to cope with the movement of the deceased

Qualifications

• Basic general education
• Literate and numerate
• Experience in healthcare, facilities, cleaning, catering or hospitality
• NVQ / BIFM Level 2 or willingness to work towards
• Previous NHS experience

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.