Job summary
- Main area
- Housekeeping
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Any 5 out of 7 days)
- Job ref
- 153-CO04204-B
- Employer
- University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Bournemouth Hospital
- Town
- Bournemouth
- Salary
- £26,530 - £29,114 pa/pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Housekeeping Team Manager
Band 4
As University Hospitals Dorset we are a three site acute trust with ‘university hospital’ status through our partnership with Bournemouth University, working with an annual budget of £730m.
We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff. Our ambitious £250m estates programme is well on the way to delivering state-of-the-art facilities over the next two years to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the populations we serve.
In an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with over seven miles of sandy beaches you’ll find inspirational opportunities to achieve your perfect work/life balance. With the New Forest and the Purbecks on our doorstep, we’re also less than three hours from London by road or train. The thriving towns of Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch give way to idyllic villages and unspoilt landscapes just minutes from our hospitals.
We believe that having a diverse workforce, and allowing people to be themselves, is essential in ensuring we offer an inclusive, welcoming and productive place to work.
We especially welcome applications from minority groups in the community who may be underrepresented in our workforce.
At UHD our active staff network groups are the Women's Network, Black Asian Minority Ethnic Group (BAME), Pride Network, European (EU), Pro Ability Staff Network, and the Armed Forces Support Group.
As a Trust we are proudly signed up to the Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant guaranteed interview schemes.
Job overview
We are looking for Housekeeping Team Managers to join #TeamUHD
Our team of Housekeeping Managers work as a team to support the Housekeeping Service across the Royal Bournemouth Hospital site. This is an exciting time at RBH with our maternity services having just moved onto the site in our new BEACH building with further changes to come as we become the major emergency hospital for East Dorset.
Our Housekeeping team ensure that the hospital is kept clean providing a safe and pleasant environment to our patients, visitors and staff. Our Housekeeping Team Managers each have a specialist area they are responsible for (quality, recruitment and training, equipment and consumable, rostering and waste) and act as ‘duty manager’ to ensure the team are allocated to the most appropriate locations to provide a safe and effective service.
Full training for the role is provided, with specific training for the specialist area. Leadership and management courses are also available.
We are a large team and experience in managing or supervising a large team would be an advantage.
Kindly note that, previous applicants won't be able to apply again and UHD won't be providing sponsorship for this vacancy
Base Location: Royal Bournemouth Hospital
Interview date: to be confirmed
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert
Working for our organisation
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.
This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have about this at interview.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Leadership & Management – level 3 or Healthcare Support Services – Level 3 diploma
- IOSHH or equivalent trained to identify and manage risks and investigate
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience of work allocation, problem solving and considering different ways of resolving issues
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of “Revised Healthcare Cleaning” Manual and “Cleaning Specifications” as per the National Standard of Healthcare Cleanliness
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
- Mark Poole
- Job title
- Housekeeping manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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