Domestic Supervisor
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Job summary
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting for a Domestic Supervisor in the Royal Albert Edward Hospital site, 20 hours per week, Monday to Friday 08:30–12:30. The post requires flexible hours to cover various shifts and is NHS Band 3.
The role includes supervising the domestic team, organising work patterns, and ensuring cleaning standards meet national quality benchmarks. Applications emphasize meeting the person specification and potential for progression within Estates
Qualifications
- Experience supervising a domestic/cleaning team.
- Knowledge of infection control protocols.
- Trained to National Cleaning Standards.
- Ability to manage rosters and annual leave.
- Proven IT skills (Teams/Outlook/Excel/Word).
Responsibilities
- Supervise the Domestic Services team and daily operations.
- Organise day-to-day tasks and staff rotas.
- Monitor cleaning standards and hygiene compliance.
- Provide training and assess staff performance.
- Support CCTV of duties and audits as required.
Skills
Education
Job description
Main area Estates and Facilties Grade NHS AfC: Band 3 Contract Permanent: Monday to Friday Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Flexible working
Employer Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Royal Albert Edward Infirmary, Wigan Lane, Wigan, WN1 2NN Town Wigan Salary £25,760 - £27,476 per annum, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 04/11/2026 08:00 Interview date 23/11/2026
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.
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.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- Safe operation and use of a variety of cleaning equipment
- To be able to use IT packages including Teams, Outlook, Excel and Word
- Fully trained to National Cleaning Standards
- Conversant with protocols in relation to infection control
- Previous supervisory experience
- Bioquell Q10 – HPV
- 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
The Trust reserves the right to close adverts earlier than the stated closing date if there is a high volume of applications.
We endeavour to inform all applicants of the outcome of their application by email or SMS text message.
Applications are assessed against the person specification. We strongly encourage you to use the supporting information section to demonstrate how you meet the essential and desirable criteria, providing clear examples where possible.
WWL is part of the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. We recognise continuous or ‘unbroken’ service from any Greater Manchester Local Authority, NHS organisation, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service or the Greater Manchester Combined Authority. This ensures access to our service-related benefits.
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.
Address Buckingham Row
Brick Kiln Lane
Wigan
WN1 1XX
Telephone 07786529393
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