Deputy Facilities Manager

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust; Tewkesbury; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider seeks to hire a Facilities Manager responsible for day-to-day management of services across several sites in Tewkesbury. This role involves managing front of house services and a cleaning team while coordinating staff training and adherence to health and safety regulations. The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong leadership and compliance skills in a supportive healthcare environment. This position offers significant opportunities for professional growth within a well-regarded organization.

Qualifications

• Experience in staff training and development.
• Knowledge of Health & Safety regulations.
• Ability to coordinate staff schedules.

Responsibilities

• Manage facilities responsibilities across multiple sites.
• Coordinate training for staff and ensure adherence to protocols.
• Conduct facilities audits and monitor performance of contracts.

Skills

Staff management

Health & Safety compliance

First Aid training

Tools

Paxton Net 2 system

Trust electronic roster system

Job description

Overview

This is an opportunity to join our Facilities team, in a post with responsibility for the day to day running of services for all sites within the Corporate locality.

The Corporate locality includes a number of buildings (currently 11 sites) including Trust HQ, staff offices and outpatient community buildings across Gloucestershire Health and Care (Physical and Mental Health Services).

Facilities responsibilities at each site will vary but could include catering, cleaning, laundry, fleet, porters and corporate functions including reception and front of house services.

You will manage front of house Reception services at Edward Jenner Court, Rikenel and Southgate Moorings (currently 5 staff) and our Corporate Cleaning contract and the Rikenel (in house) Cleaning team (currently 7 staff).

Responsibilities

Plan and co‑coordinate the management of staff within the Locality, including:

• Responsible for ensuring all staff are trained and adhere to departmental procedures, safe methods of working and risk assessments.
• Undertake all tasks in the recruitment and selection of staff, personnel record keeping, periodic induction, appraisal, training and development to ensure that they can perform their duties effectively and safely.
• Responsible for the use of the Trust electronic roster system for the management of staff rotas and the correct recording of absence.
• Be responsible for ensuring adherence to Health & Safety regulations including Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH), Moving & Handling and Infection Control to ensure a safe environment in accordance with Trust policies and procedures.
• Undertake First Aid and Fire Warden training; deal with testing of Fire Alarms and necessary fire drills (where site appropriate).
• To be responsible for the user administration of the Paxton Net 2 system. This includes issuing fobs to new starters, ensuring correct access rights and privileges are given, providing training to token administrators and solving errors with fobs (where site appropriate).
• Responsible for undertaking facilities surveys and audits at all sites within the locality.
• Responsible for the monitoring of the performance of locality contracts and suppliers.

About

We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust.

The annual NHS Staff Survey gives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust. The 2023 survey had just over 2800 colleagues providing their views (58.5%). It was great to see from the results that:

• 89.7% believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users;
• 73.3% would recommend the organisation as a place to work;
• 82.4% agree that care of patients and service users is the organisations priority;
• 76.7% would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative.

Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West. However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC a Great Place to Work.

For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Louise Thompson
Job title: Facilities Manager
Email address: [e-mail]
Telephone number: 03004214596