st georges nhs trust • SW17 0QT

Housekeeper - Cardiac and Neuro Theatres | St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

About this role

Band 2 Housekeeper - Cardiac and Neuro Theatres, St George's University Hospitals Foundation NHS Trust.

We are seeking a motivated, hands‑on individual with experience of working with people within a healthcare setting, who can demonstrate the following qualities:

  • Excellent communication and organisational skills
  • Ability to work effectively as part of a team and use own initiative
  • Willingness to learn, develop and grow within the role

The Housekeeper role is essential in supporting clinical staff to maintain a clean, safe, well‑organised and comfortable environment for patients, service users, staff and visitors, while ensuring consistently high standards of infection prevention and control.

The Housekeeper acts as the first point of contact for domestic staff and is responsible for managing sterile kits, ensuring that all daily, weekly and monthly housekeeping checks are completed. The role also includes effective stock management, including ordering, receiving and storing supplies. Working closely with the nursing team, the Housekeeper will support the cleaning and restocking of clinical rooms and trolleys and will liaise with other Trust departments, including Procurement , Linen and Catering.

With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.

Their main site, St George’s Hospital in Tooting – one of the country’s principal teaching hospitals – is shared with St George’s, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George’s Hospital also hosts the St George’s, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.

As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.

St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.

The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.

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This advert closes on Tuesday 26 May 2026

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