Domestic Supervisor | Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Wrightington, Wigan & Leigh NHS Foundation Trust; Wigan; Sur place; GBP 24 000 - 30 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Pension & Life Assurance

Annual leave 27–33 days

Maternity/Paternity/Adoption leave

Training & eLearning resources

Health & wellbeing support

Career progression within NHS Estates

NHS Discount schemes

Résumé du poste

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting for a Domestic Supervisor to join the Domestic Services team at Royal Albert Edward Hospital. The role is 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 06:00–14:00, with a flexible approach to cover other shift patterns as required.

The successful candidate will supervise daily domestic operations, support the team, and ensure high standards of cleanliness and patient care in line with NHS guidelines.

Qualifications

• The post holder should have a flexible approach to working hours.
• Experience in domestic services supervision is desirable.
• The post involves covering a variety of shift patterns as required by the service.

Responsabilités

• Supervise the Domestic Services team on a daily basis.
• Provide support to the domestic team and ensure training needs are met.
• Organise staff annual leave and maintain rotas.
• Ensure adherence to government standards and NHS policies.
• Liaise with wards, departments and accommodation where required.
• Carry out monitoring of cleaning standards and equipment usage.

Description du poste

Domestic Supervisor | Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Company: Wrightington, Wigan & Leigh NHS Foundation Trust

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

The post will be working 37.5 hours per week , Monday to Friday (06.00 - 14.00)

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 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 read the person specification and in your application (Supporting information section) please describe how do you meet these criteria for the role.

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

PLEASE NOTE 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.
• To adopt a flexible approach.
• Organise staff annual leave.
• Be prepared to offer any training support needed.
• To continue to help everyone to maintain government standards.

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 opportunities within Estates & Facilities and the NHS.
• NHS Discount schemes to access hundreds of discounts and savings from everything to High Street Stores to restaurants, family holidays and more.

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.

• People at the Heart
• Listen and Involve
• Kind and Respectful

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. We are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.

At WWL we value the benefits a rich and diverse workforce brings to our community and therefore welcome applications from all sections of society.

• 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.

This advert closes on Tuesday 3 Nov 2026