Domestic Supervisor - Part Time

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Crewe; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 31,000; Full time

Job summary

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust seeks a supervisor to lead the domestic team, arrange cover for absences, and ensure schedules align with daily requirements for safe, high-quality cleaning. You will oversee staff training, toolbox sessions, and performance, ensuring compliance with safety standards across Broadgreen site.

The role covers rostering, coordination with management, and maintaining service continuity during shortages, with a focus on continuous improvement in

Qualifications

• Supervise and organise the domestic team.
• Train staff in basic skills and mandatory training.
• Ensure health and safety practices are followed.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day domestic service within a shift and zone.
• Allocate work to Domestic Assistants and cover absences.
• Maintain rotas and service continuity during staff shortages.
• Conduct staff appraisals and address performance issues.
• Ensure toolbox and COSHH training is completed and recorded.
• Liaise with management to maintain service quality and respond to urgent requests.

Skills

Staff supervision

Training staff

Health & safety

Scheduling rotas

Budget overtime authorization

Job description

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.

To manage both staff and the service across the Broadgreen site, and be point of contact in dealing with issues raised.

Ensuring all audits are completed within timescales and are in line with NSoC., 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 and manage staff performance.

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.

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.