Job summary
- Main area
- Facilities
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Fixed term: 18 months (secondments will be considered)
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 391-RFL-6161760-A
- Employer
- Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Free Hospital
- Town
- Hampstead
- Salary
- £30,279 - £33,116 per annum, including HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Band 4 Domestic Team Leader
NHS AfC: Band 4
Our trust has around 10,000 staff serving 1.6 million patients. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital and more than 30 services in the community. This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.
Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.
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Job overview
Ensuring the delivery of a high quality patient centred cleaning service. The quality and effective of the services will be measured in accordance with the Trusts facilities management key performance indicators and Core standards. The areas of responsibility will be for cleaning of all Patient, staff and visitors areas in the Hospital and this includes grounds cleaning. The post holder will be expected to rotate the work in each area on a daily basis. The duty team leader will be responsible for the domestic service at weekends and bank holidays .The post holder will be responsible for a very large staff group and will be actively involved in all staff policies and procedures. The post holder will be guided by standard operating procedures, with the domestic manager available for reference
Main duties of the job
- Audit the performance of the domestic operatives
- Domestic department bleep holder, the nature of the requests will be unpredictable
- Verifies Clocking time reports and other relevant time and attendance records and authorises for payment
- Manage the authorisations for annual leave and other unplanned staff absence to ensure the roster operates with minimum use of bank staff.
- Actively monitor sickness and absence of domestic operatives and implement the Trusts policy for sickness management in conjunction with the domestic manager, this will involve sick reviews
- The recruitment and selection of domestics
- Action and complete all relevant and operational cleaning requests
- Ensure sufficient stock is requested, ordered, delivered and maintained for the domestic staff
- Identify domestic operatives mandatory training needs are fully satisfied and undertake training of domestic staff in cleaning duties, floor care, COSHH and basic Health & Safety
- To complete the induction and training of all new staff
- Planning costed duty rosters and allocating work. All weekly rotas must be with in the agreed weekly budget and monitored
- Responsible for the KSF development review process and appraising staff
Working for our organisation
This role is part of the wider Facilities Directorate whereby all Services are delivered by the In House Team; Portering, Catering, Security and Cleaning. There are a total of 7 Domestic Team Leaders working across the 7 days to provide a robust cleaning service to our clinical colleagues and the wider Hospital.
The Team Leaders manage a diverse group of approximately 190 domestics who work on the wards delivering a domestic/cleaning service for our patients
Infection Control plays a vital part of the Domestics function and as such the Team Leaders have a close working relationship with our Infection Control collegues
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description for full details. However in summary the Domestic Team Leaders are vital in Managing Domestic staff who provide a cleaning service to wards, clinics, offices and public areas. This service operates on a 24 hour basis through 7 days a week.
The Team Leader reports directly to the Domestic Services Manager and the service is delivered as part of the Facilities team but works very closely with both the Nursing Directorate and the Infection Control Team
Person specification
Essential
Essential criteria
- educational & professional qualifications
- Experience
- Skills & aptitudes
- Personal Qualities & attributes
- Flexible working approach
Desirable criteria
- Skills and aptitudes
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Margaret Harris
- Job title
- Domestic Services Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02077940500
- Additional information
Steven Packer
02078302390
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Recruitment Support
Open Monday to Friday
08:30 am to 17:30pm
- Telephone
- 01629 702338
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