Housekeeping Assistant (Day)

Job Description:

Housekeeping Assistant (Day)

Canary Wharf, E14 5NY

Permanent

Salary: £24,734 a year

Full time: 37.5 hours a week

We make health happen.

The Canary Wharf Centre at 50 Bank Street is a purpose-built Specialist Diagnostics & Dental Centre opening in May 2026. It will feature state-of-the-art diagnostic facilities, including MRI and CT scanning, X-ray and mammography, enabling high-quality care in a modern environment designed to support clinical excellence.

The centre will provide a wide range of services, including secondary care for orthopaedics, pain and spinal, dental and maxillofacial, breast and gynaecology, dermatology, and ear, nose and throat, with the ability to perform procedures onsite. It will also offer cardiology, urology, ophthalmology and neurology, alongside primary care services such as health assessments, private GP appointments, women’s health plans, physiotherapy and dental care.

This development is part of our ambition to grow our business and transform the healthcare markets we operate in, offering customers greater choice and better access to services. Most patients will benefit from end-to-end care under one roof, with onward referrals within the Bupa network when needed. By delivering more connected care, we aim to make healthcare simpler and more joined up for our customers.

Role Overview

To support the Housekeeping Manager and the Centre Manager in delivering an exceptionally high standard of cleanliness, hygiene, and presentation throughout the Centre clinical and non‑clinical areas, ensuring a safe, welcoming, and premium environment aligned with the expectations of a high‑end healthcare facility.

Role Responsibilities and Duties:

• Maintain impeccable cleanliness across all assigned centre areas, including clinical corridors, treatment spaces, sanitary facilities, and public areas, following infection‑control protocols.
• Perform detailed damp‑dusting of high and low surfaces, ensuring equipment, fixtures, and touch points meet hygiene standards.
• Clean and disinfect all sanitary areas as per agreed cleaning schedules.
• Support deep‑clean programmes in clinical areas when required.
• Uphold the premium hospitality standards expected in a high‑end private clinic, ensuring all public and clinical spaces are immaculately presented, calm, and welcoming.
• Respond promptly and professionally to requests from clinical and service teams to ensure smooth centre operations.
• Safely collect, segregate, and dispose of general waste and clinical waste, following infection‑control and safety procedures.
• Maintain hospital floors to a premium standard, using buffing, scrubbing, and other specialist machines safely and effectively.
• Clean and care for housekeeping equipment, ensuring machines remain in excellent working order.
• Immediately report defects or hazards to the Housekeeping Manager and/or to Centre Manager.
• Comply with Health & Safety, Data Protection, and confidentiality regulations at all times
• Demonstrate reliability, flexibility, excellent timekeeping, and a proactive approach to assigned tasks as well as a  polite, articulate, and respectful communication with patients, visitors, and staff at all times.

Key Skills / Experience needed for this role:

• Must possess cleaning experience
• Reliable
• Assertive, articulate & polite
• Flexible
• Team player
• Must be able to communicate in English
• Good timekeeping
• Work collaboratively with colleagues

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

• Equivalent to 25 days holiday per year, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
• Annual performance-based bonus
• Support with travel costs via a season ticket loan or cycle2work
• Various other benefits and online discounts

Why Bupa?

We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve.  That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

At Bupa we strive to ensure all our of customers, patients and staff are safe.  All employees have a duty to ensure that safeguarding children, young people and adults at risk is prioritised and acted on appropriately

Time Type:

Full time

Job Area:

Locations:

Canary Wharf