Role Overview
Hours – 37.5 per week. The Domestic Services Manager is responsible for ensuring cleaning services that cover the Trust site, community locations and contracted services provide timely, efficient and effective cleaning in line with National Standards of Cleanliness 2021. The post holder will also ensure cleaning and laundry services comply with CQC, national guidance and legislation.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with other Facilities teams, the wider clinical and non-clinical areas and Infection Prevention teams to provide safe, effective and reactive services.
- Manage the development and delivery of cost‑effective and efficient Domestic Services within the Hospital and Community locations.
- Ensure Domestic Services conform to the National Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness and monitoring bodies such as PLACE (Patient Led Assessment of the Care Environment).
- Provide specialist advice on cleaning methods regarding changes in legislation, statutory regulations, working practices and infection control.
- Effectively manage, develop and support the Deputy Manager, Supervisors and domestic and laundry staff.
- Ensure managers and supervisors are motivated, appropriately trained and developed to deliver a professional approach and empowered with responsibility to manage their teams.
- Ensure responsibilities are well defined for all managed staff.
- Maintain optimum staffing levels across services using innovative technology where available to accurately assess capacity and demand.
- Manage and advise on all staff rotas and annual leave requests, ensuring all absences are recorded.
Organizational Information
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust serves a community of 250,000 people across Tameside & Glossop. We provide a range of services both within the hospital and across our community for both adults and children. Our vision is to improve health outcomes for our population and influence wider determinants of health through collaboration with our health & care partners.
Values & Behaviours
- Compassion
- Accountability
- Respect
- Excellence
Diversity and Inclusion
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian & minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ & Disabled people.
Benefits
Flexible working, 27-33 days annual leave plus bank holidays, sick pay, NHS Pension Scheme, free eye tests and health checks, gym discount, free bicycle loan scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, support with stress, bereavement, relationships, finance, and more.
Contact
- Name: Andrew Hope – Job title: Facilities Manager – Email: facilities@tgh.nhs.uk – Telephone: 0161 922 6638
- Email enquiries: Facilities@tgh.nhs.uk
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