Laundry Assistant

The West of Scotland Laundry are looking for a Laundry Assistant to work the dayshift

• hours would be Mon-Thur 07.00- 15.15/30 Fri 07.00 - 14.00/30.

The Purpose of the job is to fully support the objectives of the West of Scotland Laundry (WoSL) to provide a cost-effective and efficient, quality linen service to the WoSL Consortium ( NHS Lanarkshire, Ayrshire & Arran, Dumfries & Galloway and State Hospital) - to ensure all required items are processed and delivered “on time” and to the highest quality standards, whilst ensuring the health, safety and wellbeing of all staff is paramount throughout.

KNOWLEDGE, TRAINING AND/OR EXPERIENCE REQUIRED TO DO THE JOB

• Knowledge of laundry services and related procedures
• Required to undertake on the job training and induction (this will generally take 4-6 weeks, depending on hours/days worked ), to achieve full competency across a range of duties
• Working knowledge Health & Safety including participation in risk assessing individual tasks
• Required to undertake on the job training and induction e.g. infection control in the laundry
• Undertake NHS Lanarkshire compulsory training
• Undertake mandatory Health Care Support Workers (HCSW) Standards
• Working knowledge of basic information technology
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to audit
• Ability to work with others as part of a multi disciplinary team
• Ability to carry out assigned tasks effectively in a busy environment

‘In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.

• Care experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential children’s setting/secure unit.’
• Whilst this advertisement may be for a specific post(s) in a particular location, applicants who are shortlisted for interview may be considered for similar vacancies in alternative locations._ NHS Lanarkshire Recruitment Website

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