Facilities Management Assistant | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

The facilities department employ a variety of support staff to help maintain a clean, safe and welcoming environment. As a Facilities Management Assistant you will provide a range of tasks which will primarily involve catering, food preparation duties. You will be required to prepare and serve meals within our in-patient area. The role will also involve the cleaning of clinical and non-clinical areas. The role of the Facilities Management Assistant (FMA) remains an integral part of our service delivery, carrying out a range of facilities tasks and ensuring that catering and cleaning standards are achieved and maintained.

Base: Mossley Hill Hospital, Park Drive, Liverpool, L18 8BU

This is an exciting chance to be involved in the opening of a new Mersey Care Hospital, working with other teams to ensure the safety of new introduced services users to the Hospital and keeping the Hospital up to standard.

Please note there are multiple hours available 15hrs and 27.5hr contracts.

5 days over 7 day rolling rota - 1:30pm -7pm - 27.5 hours per week

4pm- 7pm 15hrs Monday - Friday

You will need to demonstrate an understanding of the need to deal with service users and staff in a helpful and supportive manner. You must have good communication skills, a positive attitude and an understanding of health and safety in relation to safe working practices.

Previous experience of hospital catering and cleaning duties and specifically a catering provision within a mental health environment would be an advantage, however, training will be provided. You will be expected to have or acquire an appropriate Food Hygiene certificate and must have basic computer skills.





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.

To work as members of a team, carrying out facilities tasks as allocated and prioritised.

Facilities tasks may include all or a combination of the following:

Cleaning of clinical/ward areas, inclusive of toilets;

Basic food preparation;

Fridge and food temperature monitoring;





To assist colleagues and their line manager, carry out the tasks assigned to the team or individual and to support the minimisation of overtime and sickness costs to the Trust and also minimise the waste of resources, through operating the required reporting, management or information systems.

To undertake all mandatory training as required by Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust and ensure that all required training is kept up to date.

To take part in performance management and Personal Achievement and Contribution Evaluations (PACE).

To comply with all relevant policies and procedures (including, but not limited to, health & safety, security, manual handling and food safety). As work may be carried out in a wide variety of locations, adherence to site-specific security procedures is of paramount importance.

To take responsibility for the completion of all duties in a safe and productive manner, and to maintain regular contact with their line manager.

To stand in for other FMA's as required.

To liaise with all relevant parties in a friendly and helpful way as is required to ensure the achievement of all duties and responsibilities.

Internal Contacts

Contact with staff of all disciplines and at all levels in the course of day-to-day domestic and catering duties.

External Contacts

Contact with visitors to the Trust, and with a variety of maintenance and other contractors working on site.

Service Users

Contact with patients. This may be daily within inpatient areas for extended periods of time, or infrequently in outpatient areas. This contact may include communication with service users with severe and enduring mental health problems, who

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