Facilities Management Assistant

Transformationunitgm; Sefton; On-site; GBP 40,000 - GBP 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A public health organization in Sefton is seeking a Facilities Management Assistant to join their team. This role involves delivering high-quality cleaning and portering within acute mental health wards, ensuring compliance with National Cleaning Standards and CQC regulations. The position is part-time, working 30 hours per week from Tuesday to Friday. Applicants should have experience in cleansing or catering tasks and an awareness of NHS operations. A CIEH Foundation Certificate in Food Hygiene is required. Offering a supportive working environment focused on teamwork and staff development.

Qualifications

• Experience in cleansing or catering tasks.
• Experience working in an NHS environment.
• Ability to carry out manual tasks.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality cleaning and portering services.
• Ensure compliance with National Cleaning Standards.
• Work flexible hours from Tuesday to Friday.

Skills

Good interpersonal and communication skills

Flexible

Team collaboration

Education

CIEH Foundation Certificate in Food Hygiene

Job description

Main area Facilities Grade Band 2 Contract Permanent: 30 Hours per week - Tuesday to Friday - 8am until 4pm Hours Part time - 30 hours per week (Tuesday to Friday 08:00 to 16:00) Job ref 350-TWS7772877

Employer Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Hartley Hospital Town Southport Salary £24,465 pro rata per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 19/02/2026 23:59 Interview date 09/03/2026

Facilities Management Assistant (Domestic/Cleaner)

Band 2

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.

We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Facilities Department for an enthusiastic individual to join our team at Hartley Hospital working within the acute mental health wards and environment as a Facilities Management Assistant (Domestic/cleaner).

Main duties of the job

The postholder will deliver a high-quality cleaning, portering, catering and housekeeping service based on acute mental health wards and departments, ensuring compliance with National Cleaning Standards, PLACE requirements, and CQC regulations.

Shift Pattern: Tuesday to Friday (8am - 4pm) 30 hours per week

This post is subject to a standard Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check.

Working for our organisation

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We are looking to appoint someone with the following skills and qualities and experience in a similar role would be beneficial however full training will be given to the right candidate.

NHS experience and training in safety, health and catering or cleaning tasks.

CIEH Foundation Certificate in Food Hygiene, or equivalent.

Experience of working in a similar role (cleaning or catering).

Experience of working in the NHS. Experience of dealing with people.

Accountability

Responsive to service users

Engaging leadership style

Transparency and honesty & Discrete

Able to function as a member of a team and support the management objectives of the department and Trust.

Able to deal with requests from service users, managers and staff in a friendly and helpful way.

Flexible.

Good interpersonal and communication skills.

Able to work both independently and as part of a team.

Able to carry out manual tasks.

Person specification

Skills

• Able to function as a member of a team and support the management objectives of the department and trust
• Able to deal with requests form service users, managers and staff in a friendly and helpful way
• Flexible
• Good interpersonal and communication skills
• Able to work both independently and as part of a team
• Able to carry out manual tasks
• Able to maintain accurate records.

Values

• Accountability
• Responsive to service users
• Engaging leadership style
• Transparency and honesty
• Change oriented

Qualifications

• NHS experience and training in safety, health and catering,or cleaning tasks.
• CIEH Foundation Certificate in Food Hygiene, or equivalent.

KNOWLEDGE/EXPERIENCE

• Experience of working in a similar role (cleaning or catering)
• Experience of working in the NHS
• Experience of dealing with people
• Knowledge of the National Standards of Cleanliness and NHS Colour Coding.
• Experience of working in a multi-skilled environment.

Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs not NHS Jobs.

Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.

Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email [e-mail] to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.

We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role and work in Children’s & Young People services to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or [e-mail] ) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.

Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form.

Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 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.