Linen Services Assistant

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Main area Linen services Grade NHS AfC:
Band 2 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday) Job  

Site Ormskirk Hospital Town Ormskirk Salary £24,465 Per Annum Salary period Yearly Closing 29/01/2026 23:59 Interview date 06/02/2026

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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Linen Services Assistant to join our team.

A Linen Services Assistant at Ormskirk Hospital ensures wards and departments have a constant supply of clean linen and uniforms by delivering, sorting, and restocking supplies, while also managing uniform services like measuring and ordering for staff, and maintaining stock records, all to support patient care and hospital efficiency.

• Provide a customer focused service.
• To ensure wards and departments receive clean, laundered linen in quantities appropriate to the demands of their service.
• To adhere to safe working practices in all aspects of hygiene management.
• To adhere to safe working practices in all aspects of risk management and security.
• To ensure the patient environment is maintained to a high standard.
• To undertake mandatory training in infection control and comply with all Trust Infection Control policies relevant to the post particularly with regards to the hand hygiene policy.
• To ensure compliance to all Trust Risk Management, Research Governance and Infection Control Policies and Procedures and abide by the Standards for Better Health.
• Take responsibility for managing own health and well-being.

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.

We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.

Our Services:

Acute Care

Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.

Primary Care

Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.

Community Services

Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.

Specialist Regional Services

We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

Achievements:

• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme

KEY DUTIES

• To participate in the sorting, production and finishing of clean linen and dispatch to wards and departments and external contracts.
• To liaise directly…