Domestic Assistant

Overview

Hotel Services are offering exciting opportunities to work within a vibrant and busy department. We pride ourselves on the service we deliver, ensuring that the required standards are achieved in line with Infection Control and the National Standards. We are looking for motivated people who have the ability to work as both part of a team and individually and who will be willing to work flexibly in accordance with the needs of the department.

• Monday - Friday
• Monday - Friday
• Monday - Friday
• Thursday - Friday

• Interview Date: 10th and 11th February 2026
• Full & Part Time Hours/Week
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.

Please specify in the supporting information what shift you may be interested in.

NO AGENCIES PLEASE

• As a valued member of the Hotel Services team you will provide a clean and safe environment for our patients, visitors and staff.
• To ensure the highest possible standard of cleanliness is achieved and complying with the National Standards of Cleanliness, and the local Infection Control Policy within given areas to minimise the risk of cross infection for staff, patients and members of the public within Trust premises.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:

• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Freeman Hospital
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Cramlington Manor Walks
• Urgent treatment centres
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service

These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.

We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under  Documents to download  or  Supporting documents .

For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit:
Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

• Date posted: 21 January 2026
• Pay scheme:
  Agenda for change
• Band:
  Band 2
• Salary: £24,465 a year pro rata
• Contract:
  
  Permanent
• Working pattern:
  Full-time, Part-time
• Reference number: DR
• Job locations:
  Freeman Hospital

• Job responsibilities:
  
  To perform cleaning and other associated tasks in any ward, department, operating theatre, laboratory, corridor, catering area, office or residential accommodation as required and shall include all or any of the under mentioned tasks, which may include working as a team member.

Job description details are provided within the job posting.

• Knowledge – Essential:
  Literate - basic education
• Desirable:
  Understanding of infection control in relation to cleanliness;
  Understanding of Health and Safety;
  Knowledge of COSHH

• Skills – Essential:
  Good communication skills, must be able to communicate with other members of Trust staff;
  Good writing skills
• Desirable:
  Previous use of cleaning machines and chemicals

• Experience – Desirable:
  Previous Domestic experience

• Qualifications – Desirable: NVQ / City and Guilds Qualifications

Disclosure and Barring Service Check:
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and a submission for Disclosure to be made to the DBS to check for any previous criminal convictions.

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Freeman Hospital
317 01 Freeman Hospital
NE7 7DN

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