Domestic Supervisor

Integrated Care System; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

The Integrated Care System is seeking a Domestic Supervisor to lead and organise the domestic team at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The role involves ensuring robust training, compliance with health and safety standards, staff allocations, and maintaining cleaning standards across healthcare settings. Candidates should have NVQ Level 3 qualifications and relevant supervisory experience in a healthcare environment, possessing strong skills in data input, numeracy, and teamwork. This position aims to facilitate high-quality service delivery and staff performance.

Qualifications

• Prepared to study for NVQ level 3 in leadership.
• Ability and willingness to undertake further training as necessary.

Responsibilities

• To provide direct supervision and organisation of the domestic team.
• To ensure all staff are working to Trust policies and are trained in operating methods.
• Ensuring the rotas are covered and liaising with management for service continuity.
• Training staff in basic job skills under the direction of Management.

Skills

Basic data inputting

Basic numeracy and literacy skills

Ability to work as part of a team

Education

NVQ Level 3 in leadership (or equivalent)

Job description

Go back Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Domestic Supervisor

The closing date is 29 July 2025

To provide direct supervision and organisation of the domestic team. To arrange cover for absences and unforeseen instances and facilitate any adjustment of work schedules in light of daily requirements to meet service needs to obtain acceptable standards of cleaning.

To ensure all staff in the team are working to Trust polices and are correctly instructed and trained in the use of operating methods, equipment and techniques required to provide a safe environmentResponsible for the day to day domestic service within a specified shift time and allocated zone.

Main duties of the job

Ensuring the rotas are covered. Allocation of work to Domestic assistants. Liaise with management to ensure there is a continuation of service in the event of major staff shortages. Priorities urgent requests. Authorise overtime within the allocated budget.

Training of staff in basic job skills under the direction of Management.

Training of health and safety, including cascade training and the monthly toolbox training. Ensuring that the staff are complaint with the mandatory training including COSHH. Making arrangements for staff to attend training.

Tool box training. Ensure that staff are trained in the Toolbox training. Record the information on the appropriate documents on the computer. Get involved with the development of tool box training sheets.

Carry out staff appraisals.

Cooperates on matters of health and safety and ensures that all staff comply with current Health and safety practices.

Ensuring all staff carry out their duties to the required standard as determined by Management. Identify and resolve staff performance problems. Highlight issues with management.

About us

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.

The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.

The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.

To hear more about our achievements click here https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/media/13089/1606-annual-report-booklet_final.pdf

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Job responsibilities

Ensuring the rotas are covered. Allocation of work to Domestic assistants. Liaise with management to ensure there is a continuation of service in the event of major staff shortages. Priorities urgent requests. Authorise overtime within the allocated budget.

Training of staff in basic job skills under the direction of Management.

Training of health and safety, including cascade training and the monthly toolbox training. Ensuring that the staff are complaint with the mandatory training including COSHH. Making arrangements for staff to attend training.

Tool box training. Ensure that staff are trained in the Toolbox training. Record the information on the appropriate documents on the computer. Get involved with the development of tool box training sheets.

Carry out staff appraisals.

Cooperates on matters of health and safety and ensures that all staff comply with current Health and safety practices.

Ensuring all staff carry out their duties to the required standard as determined by Management. Identify and resolve staff performance problems. Highlight issues with management.

Under the direction of management, authority to give informal disciplinary warnings.

Report any issues with staff that do not comply with Aintree values.

Maintaining Trust standards of hygiene at all times, including personal cleanliness, working practices.

Handling customer complaints in conjunction with Management. Completing all the relevant documentation.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 3 in leadership (or equivalent)

Experience

• Previous cleaning experience at a supervisory level
• Previous experience of cleaning
• Previous cleaning experience at a supervisory level within a healthcare environment
• Previous experience of cleaning within a healthcare environment

Knowledge

• An understanding of C.O.S.H.H. regulations
• Health and safety basic knowledge
• An understanding of the operating of cleaning machinery

Skills

• Basic data inputting either manually or using a computer/tablet
• Basic numeracy and literacy skills
• Ability to work as part of a team

Other

• Prepared to study for NVQ level 3 in leadership
• Ability and willingness to undertake further training as necessary

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust