Domestic Assistant

Job summary

Domestic staff provide a clean and safe environment for our patients, staff and visitors and help to reduce the spread of Health Care Acquired Infections. This role will involve general cleaning in both clinical and non-clinical areas.

Duties will include:

• High dusting walls, ceilings, curtains rails, doors
• Damp dusting furniture, fittings, ledges and paintwork
• Vacuuming floors daily
• Deep Cleaning of areas and equipment
• Serving patient beverages

We provide enhanced hours for Saturdays and Sundays as well as enhanced pay for bank holidays. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers a wide range of support for health and wellbeing services to support you in the workplace.

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites:
Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.

Date posted: 22 January 2026

Pay scheme:
Agenda for Change

Band:
Band 2

Salary: £24,465 a year per annum pro rata

Contract:

Permanent

Working pattern:
Full-time

Reference number: 251-CORP
7454-DA

Job locations:
Winchester, Romsey Road, Winchester SO22 5DG

For further information about this role please see the Job Description document attached. If you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Training & Qualifications

Essential

• Good general education at GCSE level or equivalent

Desirable

• Customer care training

Experience & Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of manual handling and health and safety regulations

Desirable

• Experience of working in a healthcare environment

Skills & Ability

Essential

• Ability to communicate effectively with patients, ward staff and Domestic team.

Desirable

• Ability to work well as part of a team.

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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name:
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address:
Winchester, Romsey Road, Winchester SO22 5DG