FM Supervisor

Eput; Ivy Chimneys; Remote; GBP 25,000 - 27,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Season Ticket Loans

Training facilities

Annual leave buy/sell

Bank shifts

Salary sacrifice schemes

Job summary

EPUT seeks a Band 3 Facilities Manager at St Margaret's Hospital, Epping. 37.5 hours per week, part-time varied hours, permanent contract.

Salary £24,937 - £26,598 per annum pro rata (£12.75-£13.60 per hour). You will co-supervise FM services (cleaning, window cleaning, catering, portering, goods receiving, linen, laundry and grounds) and support FM Assistants, ensuring high cleanliness and regulatory compliance in Food Safety and Health and Safety.

Responsibilities

• Co-supervise FM services across site(s) and be the customer point of contact for FM issues.
• Maintain high cleanliness standards and ensure goods, food service and wards receive timely support.
• Ensure compliance with Food Safety and Health & Safety legislation.

Job description

Main area Facilities Grade Band 3 Contract Permanent Hours 37.5 hours per week (Part-time Varied Hours) Job ref 364-B-584

Site St Margaret's Hospital Town Epping Salary £25,760 - £27,476 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 10/11/2026 23:59

Please be aware that, due to current allocation constraints, Certificates of Sponsorship (CoS) are being prioritised for registered roles at this time.

Our Trust cares for more than 100,000 patients at any one time across our community health, mental health and learning disability services across Essex and parts of Bedfordshire and Suffolk.

We want you to be part of our journey of transformation, where our patients and their families are at the heart of everything we do and to achieve our vision to be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care.

You’ll be part of a Trust where you will be supported to be your authentic self and be the best you can be, where we will help you to grow, develop and thrive.

The Trust is recognised by the University of Essex and is a top provider of apprenticeships for people looking to be an assistant practitioner, senior health care support worker (CAP). Our trailblazing CAP apprenticeship won a national HSJ Award.

We are also recognised as a Veteran Aware Trust and holder of gold accreditation from the Ministry of Defence Employment Recognition Scheme. Our services are highlighted as an exemplar of good practice, producing the best care for more than 3.500 armed forces veterans in the past seven years.

We have been shortlisted and won national awards. We are an inclusive organisation and Level 3 Disability Confident Leader Trust.

We are constantly innovating and looking for new ways to deliver care, such as using technology to enhance patient care and working with partners to launch new services such as the Basildon Mental Health Urgent Care Department, virtual hospitals and falls response cars.

Join us and you'll do the best work of your life – and make a difference to other people’s lives. What we do together, matters.

Job overview

Band 3 - £24,937 - £26,598 per annum pro rata (£12.75 to £13.60 per hour)

This post will include Unsocial Hours Payments as follows:

Saturday - Time plus 35% of the salary

37.5 hours per week - See below for rota

Monday to Friday - 12:30 - 20:00

Saturday - 14:00 - 19:00 (every 2nd week)

St Margaret's Hospital, Epping

Please note you must have right to work in the UK to apply for this position.

Due to current Home Office Guidelines, we are unable to sponsor this job role.

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for the day to day co-supervision of the FM services in an agreed location(s) and will be the customers’ point of contact for any FM related issues. The FM services comprise of the cleaning, window cleaning, and the catering, portering and goods receiving services, linen and laundry management as well as grounds and gardens maintenance (where applicable). You will be responsible for supporting the management of all the FM Assistants providing the FM services. This will include:

Ensuring that all areas of the site are maintained at an excellent level of cleanliness; goods delivered to site are received, checked and distributed appropriately; food service in both the dining room (where available) and to the wards is delivered appropriately and in a timely fashion;

Ensuring compliance with legislation relating to both Food Safety and Health and Safety;

Ensuring a high standard of customer service; Providing FM support and advice as required. You should also be aware that you may be required to undertake FM duties as a member of the FM team, i.e. cleaning and food preparation duties. You must be aware that your role will require patient contact. You will be working as part of the Estates & Facilities Management Team and are expected to have a flexible approach to your role.

Working for our organisation

EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;

• Season Ticket Loans
• Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
• Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
• The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work

Join our Staff bank

What is Staff Bank?

Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non‑clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings. Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times.

All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish.

If you are joining our Trust in a fixed term role, please indicate on your New Starter Paperwork that you wish to join our staff bank.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Domestic Service including Rapid Response (CAT)
To ensure that the ward(s) / areas you are assigned to are cleaned in accordance with the

Work Schedule for those ward(s) / areas.
This will include vacuuming floors; sweeping, scrubbing and mopping floors; high and low dusting; wiping over and polishing (where applicable) both vertical and horizontal surfaces, mirrors, chairs*, bed frames*, bins, sani-bins; cleaning toilets, sinks, baths and showers; cleaning cookers, regeneration ovens, fridges, holding fridges, microwaves and others items in the kitchens; defrosting fridges on a regular basis; restocking consumables such as toilet tissue, handtowels, soap; descaling taps; and bins and replacing bin liners.
(* Providing they have not been soiled with body fluids)
To work with your supervisor and other interested parties when the work schedule for the area you are assigned to is reviewed. This is to ensure that the Work Schedule for that area is manageable and appropriate.
To ensure that you inform your supervisor if there are any problems for example, with floor coverings, surfaces etc which will have a detrimental effect on your ability to clean those areas properly.
To ensure that whilst you carry out your duties you only use the correct colour coded mops, cloths, buckets etc that have assigned to those areas and that these items are properly cleaned and stored or disposed of at the ends of your shift. You are doing this to prevent cross infection in the area you are working in.
To ensure that all the cleaning materials and disposables you use (ie floor cleaner, handtowels) are used economically. It will be your responsibility to report to your supervisor if you find the quality of the products you are using deteriorates in any way, or if substitute products are delivered to your ward. You must ensure that only chemicals provided by the Trust area used and that these are used appropriately and in the way you were trained to use them.
To use any machinery /equipment (ie vacuum cleaners, dishwashers, regeneration ovens) in such a way that you will not either endanger yourself or any other person in the area in which you are working. This will include: reporting any faults or broken equipment to your supervisor