Water Hygiene Technician at Cleveland Clinic in Victoria, AU

Our vision is to be the best place for healthcare anywhere and the best place to work in healthcare.

We believe that every life deserves world class healthcare.

Job Summary

Salary: £27,000 - £29,500 (depending on experience) Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm (on-site only)

Location: 33 Grosvenor Place, London SW1X 7HY but some travel to other sites required: 24 Portland Place, W1B 1LU and 55 Moorgate, EC2R 6BH

Contract: Permanent

What are we looking for?

The Water Hygiene Assistant is responsible for supporting the operational delivery and is expected to be familiar with all aspects of Water safety within CCL (Cleveland Clinic London) operations. In general, your responsibilities will be to ensure water safety, labour and infrastructure are in place to ensure correct, safe and efficient function of critical and non-critical healthcare water services to achieve Compliant services for CCL.

You will support the Estates & Facilities Leadership team with proactive management of water safety. The role requires you to be a key contact in the event of any operational water safety issues on a day to day basis and must be able to react in a methodical and controlled manner, implementing the agreed escalation procedures as required and keeping the WSG (Water Safety Group) Estates & Facilities management & caregivers, fully briefed.

You will be required to communicate to caregivers on all aspects relating to water safety. You will report to the Technical Services Manager, and on a day-to-day basis to the Estates & Facilities Monitoring Specialist & Team.

What makes us different?

Cleveland Clinic London offers a brand-new high-acuity environment with the very latest equipment, where caregivers are encouraged to grow their expertise across multiple specialties, and in collaboration with expert clinicians. Our Mission, ‘Caring for life, researching for health, and educating those who serve’, assures our unwavering commitment to professional development.

What will your duties include?

• Contributing to the effective control of legionella & Pseudomonas and compliance with legislation, by performing routine maintenance to water systems across the CCL Estates portfolio.
• Understanding the post's responsibility to meeting legislation and compliance requirements regarding communication and escalation procedures.
• Providing support to the Estates & Facilities team by undertaking water flushing and maintenance works.
• Providing and maintaining a high quality of work to uphold the Cleveland Clinic London reputation and safeguard caregivers, patients and visitors.
• Accurate recording of data and immediate escalation of non-compliance/defects.
• Liaising with caregivers to perform all works effectively.
• Organising their daily workload to complete the tasks in the given priorities, whilst meeting all quality standards, service level agreements and compliance requirements.
• Actively role-modelling the behaviours that reflect the values of CCL.
• Ensure the provision of healthy and safe working conditions and that health and safety policy and process is effectively implemented across CCL.
• Working with the team to ensure the collaborative development of water safety, effective team working, and support to caregivers.
• Review appropriate control systems to ensure statutory, mandatory and policy commitments are met.
• Delivery of a customer focus within all areas of water safety activities and ensure that effective relationships are maintained with key stakeholders and caregivers.
• Produce regular reports to demonstrate the service delivery.
• Act as Competent Person (CP) in relation to specific maintenance responsibilities to; Water Safety.
• To understand and comply with the relevant health and safety policies and standards, risk assessments and methods required to prevent hazards to themselves, other occupants of these premises, or to the public.
• The routine checks of plant and equipment and undertaking allocated planned preventative maintenance (PPM) assessments.
• Flushing of water outlets throughout the estate, contacting each site to arrange attendance.
• Identifying outlets that are not regularly used that require flushing and flushing them to comply with legionella guidelines.
• Reactive works linked to flushing activity based on the current daily needs of CCL.
• Updating information via maintenance software and necessary records, including signing the site logbook accurately and evidentially.
• Assisting in the general tidiness & cleanliness of the CCL Estates environment.
• Other duties as assigned.

What we need from you?

• Cleveland Clinic London is a new-build Hospital and therefore experience working in new- clinical properties is desirable
• Experience in Water safety is desirable
• Previously held CP positions in a health care environment is essential
• Experience of CAFM System is desirable
• Computer literacy with Microsoft Word, Excel and Microsoft Office or equivalent is desirable

What we can offer you?​​​​​​​

As a private hospital with no shareholders, we reinvest all profits back into our organisation. This allows us to provide meaningful, tailored support and development opportunities for our caregivers - alongside a range of benefits, including:

• 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• Double-matched salary exchange pension – contribute 5% and we’ll contribute 10%
• Private Medical & Dental Insurance
• Life Assurance
• Season Ticket Loan & Cycle to Work schemes
• Workplace Nursery Scheme
• Wellbeing Hub with mental health, coaching and EAP support
• Earned Wage Access - get early access to part of your pay when needed
• Access to discounts on food, retail, and more

Who we are?

Cleveland Clinic is one of the leading providers of specialised medical care in the world, providing clinical excellence and superior patient outcomes for almost 6 million patient visits per year across more than 200 locations. We employ over 80,000 caregivers worldwide and continue to drive innovation in healthcare.

With over 100 years of history, our “Patients First” philosophy is at the heart of everything that we do.

If you would like to know more, please email recruitment@ccf.org. ‎ Applicant shortlisting and interviews may take place whilst the advert is live, so it may close sooner than expected - please submit your application as soon as possible. Due to the volume of applications, we are not always able to provide individual feedback.

Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check

This role may be subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order (as amended) and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

“Let’s deliver World Class care together!”

As an equal opportunities employer, we aspire to work together to promote a more inclusive work environment, which represents our commitment to celebrate diversity.

CCL is committed to applying its Equal Employment Opportunity/Workforce Diversity and Inclusion Policy at all stages of recruitment and privileging. Shortlisting, interviewing and selection will always be carried out without regard to any Protected Characteristics. When aware of the need to do so and when required, CCL will make reasonable adjustments to its arrangements for interviews and to conditions of employment/engagement for disabled applicants to ensure, so far as practicable, that they do not place such applicants at a substantial disadvantage in comparison to non-disabled applicants.