Domestic Supervisor

Wrightington Wigan & Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Wigan; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 27,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent Pension & Life Assurance

Annual leave 27 to 33 days

Salary sacrifice schemes

Job summary

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting for a Domestic Supervisor at Royal Albert Edward Hospital. The post is 20 hours per week, Monday to Friday from 08:30 to 12:30, within the Domestic Services team.

The role requires a flexible approach to hours and the ability to cover various shifts as needed. The successful candidate will supervise daily domestic tasks, organise staff rotas, and help ensure compliance with national cleaning standards.

Qualifications

• Fully trained to National Cleaning Standards.
• Experience in infection control protocols.
• Supervisory experience in a Domestic or equivalent role.

Responsibilities

• Allocate and organise day-to-day work tasks and staff rotas.
• Security of buildings.
• Monitor performance against work schedules.
• Train and assess staff in equipment use and COSHH.
• Allocation of cleaning materials and equipment.

Skills

IT skills

Cleaning equipment

Supervisory experience

Education

C.I.L.B City and Guilds NVQ L1/L2

Health & Safety qualification

Job description

Wrightington Wigan & Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Domestic Supervisor

The closing date is 04 November 2026

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust are currently recruiting for aDomestic Supervisor role within our Domestic team at Royal Albert Edward Hospital.

The post will be working 20 hours per week , Monday to Friday (08.30 - 12.30)

The post holder should have a flexible approach to working hours and be able to cover a variety of shift patterns as the service requires.

Please read the person specification and in your application (Supporting information section) please describe how do you meet these criteria for the role.Please be advised, applications are scored against the person specification, detailed in the job advert.

Candidates with highest scores will be invited to the interviews.

Please note this vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if a sufficient number of suitable applications are received.

This role is not eligible for sponsorship.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be responsible for the daily supervision of the Domestic Services, completing all supervisory duties.

• To work as part of a supervisory team.
• To provide support to our domestic team.
• Organise staff annual leave.
• Be prepared to offer any training support needed.
• To continue to help everyone to maintain government standards.

About us

Choose Well - Choose WWL

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals, NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that 'happy staff, makes for happy patients'. We have a recognised track record in staff engagement, and living our values.

WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. With this in mind we are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.

Good basic salary plus an attractive package of benefits which include:

Excellent Pension & Life Assurance Package (over 20% employer contribution)

Excellent annual leave entitlements 27 to 33 days per annum dependent upon service.

Paid occupational maternity, paternity, and adoption leave dependent upon service.

Training opportunities and eLearning resources.

Health and wellbeing support.

Career Progression opportunitieswithin Estates & Facilities and the NHS.

Access to salary sacrifice schemes for items such as lease vehicles and buy a bike schemes.

NHS Discount schemes to access hundreds of discounts and savings from everything to High Street Stores to restaurants, family holidays and more.

Long Service Awards.

Job responsibilities

• Allocate & organise day-to-day work tasks and activities, adjust staff rotas for unplanned absences and release of staff for training.
• Security of buildings.
• Monitoring of performance of duties as laid down in work schedules
• Performance of duties in accordance with approved methods, frequencies and standards.
• Training & assessment of staff in the use of equipment machinery, COSHH and cleaning materials as directed.
• Allocation of cleaning materials and equipment.
• Make spot checks on wards and Departments to check on cleaning standards.
• Monitor the compliance of the uniform policy.
• Attend relevant training courses as directed.
• Completion of Datix reporting system.
• Adopt a flexible approach when undertaking duties as part of a team, including colleagues and other staff, working towards the highest possible standards of patient care.
• Hospital site key holder, key allocation of, user of alarm systems
• Audit cleaning standards to National Standards and Quality assurance procedures on wards and Departments, take corrective action when necessary.
• Liaises with wards, departments and accommodation.
• Handles complaints and takes preliminary action to resolve.
• Take action as necessary on reported accidents at work and defects with machinery and buildings. Carry out initial investigations into accidents at work.
• Implement policies and make recommendations to improve or change work practices for own area.
• Assist with Interview & selection of staff in compliance with the HR Recruitment policy.
• Training & assessing in conjunction with the Domestic Services Training protocols.

Person Specification

Additional

• Able to work unsociable hours.
• Speak English to an appropriate standard relevant to their role, i.e. with confidence and accuracy, using correct sentence structures and vocabulary, and without hesitation
• Flexibility to provide cover for colleagues.
• The ability to work flexibly in accordance with service needs.

Knowledge

• Full knowledge of domestic cleaning protocols
• Knowledge of hygiene, health & safety, COSHH regulations
• Knowledge of staff supervision
• Understanding of rota management and annual leave
• Knowledge of the Hospital site and departments within it
• Knowledge of Trust policies

Skills

• Safe operation and use of a variety of cleaning equipment
• To be able to use IT packages including Teams, Outlook, Excel and Word

Experience

• Fully trained to National Cleaning Standards
• Conversant with protocols in relation to infection control
• Previous supervisory experience
• Bioquell Q10 - HPV

Qualifications

• C.I.L.B City and Guilds N.V.Q Level 1&2 or equivalent qualification
• Ability to demonstrate supervisory experience in a Domestic or equivalent role.
• Health & Safety qualification Team Leader/Supervisory qualification or equivalent

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.

Employer name

Wrightington Wigan & Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Albert Edward Infirmary, Wigan Lane, Wigan, WN1 2NN

£25,760 to £27,476 a yearper annum, pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time,Part-time,Job share,Flexible working

Reference number

302-26-8249585E

Job locations

Royal Albert Edward Infirmary, Wigan Lane, Wigan, WN1 2NN