Housekeeping Team Lead / HOD

Nuffield Health; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Nuffield Health Glasgow Hospital is seeking a Housekeeping Head of Department to supervise and support the cleaning team, ensuring the highest cleanliness and service standards for patients, staff and visitors.

You will manage rotas, stock control, and workload prioritisation, with hands-on duties and strong IT skills for records and reporting. This is a permanent, full-time role at Glasgow’s leading private hospital.

Qualifications

• SVQ/NVQ Level 2 in Housekeeping or equivalent.
• Experience in supervisory and management of housekeeping or domestic services in a hospital or healthcare setting.
• Self-motivated with strong organisational skills.
• Commercial awareness and understanding of service efficiency.
• Confident using data systems and computer applications.
• Ability to carry out manual handling tasks with frequent, moderate physical effort.
• Proven ability to lead, motivate, and support staff effectively.
• Willing to work multi-shift including unsociable weekends as required.

Responsibilities

• Ensure safe, compliant cleaning practices and meet service deadlines.
• Monitor and maintain stock levels, ensuring resources are available.
• Oversee rota planning, scheduling, stock control, audits and training records.
• Serve as primary contact for issues in work areas or equipment; report to management.
• Maintain a safe environment complying with health and safety regs and audits.
• Provide daily supervision, inductions, and staff development.

Skills

Leadership

Organizational skills

Communication

Data systems

Education

SVQ/NVQ Level 2 in Housekeeping

Tools

Data systems

Job description

Housekeeping Team Lead / HOD Glasgow Hospital | Cleaning | Permanent Contract | Full Time Up to £28,887 per annum depending on experience 37.5 hours per week

At Nuffield Health the UKs largest healthcare charity, everything we give our patients, members and customers would not be possible without you. Your passion, your warmth, your drive to make a difference. Whether it’s driving connected health, helping the nation, transforming experiences, or building the career you want – we give you the support to do it all. Join our journey. It starts with you.

Keeping our hospitals clean is a big priority for us. At Nuffield Health, we believe a clean and safe environment is essential to delivering outstanding care. We’re looking for a Housekeeping Head of Department to supervise and support our cleaning team, ensuring the highest standards of cleanliness and service for our patients, staff, and visitors.

Bringing strong communication and leadership skills, you’ll manage rotas, oversee stock control, and prioritise workloads effectively. With good IT and customer service skills, as well as an eye for detail, you’ll also play a hands‑on role in daily housekeeping duties, helping to create a welcoming and safe environment.

Housekeeping Head of Department – Key Responsibilities

• Ensure all cleaning products and equipment are used safely and effectively, adhering to health and safety procedures while meeting service deadlines.
• Monitor and maintain stock levels, ensuring the team has the necessary resources to deliver consistently high standards.
• Oversee core administrative duties, including rota planning, scheduling, stock control, audits, and maintaining accurate training records.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for reporting and resolving issues related to work areas or equipment, working closely with management to implement effective solutions and manage complaints.
• Maintain a safe, hygienic environment by ensuring full compliance with health and safety regulations and audit requirements.
• Provide daily supervision to the housekeeping team, including task scheduling, inductions, staff development and training, and managing leave and absences.
• Ensure all work is completed efficiently, to a high standard, and in accordance with infection prevention policies and established procedures.
• Reporting to the Facilities Manager

Housekeeping Head of Department – Essential Requirements

• SVQ/NVQ Level 2 in Housekeeping or an equivalent qualification.
• Experience in a supervisory & management of housekeeping or domestic services role within a hospital or healthcare setting.
• Self‑motivated with strong organisational skills.
• Commercial awareness and an understanding of service efficiency.
• Confident using data systems and computer applications.
• Ability to carry out manual handling tasks involving frequent, moderate physical effort throughout each shift.
• Proven ability to lead, motivate, and support staff effectively.
• Required to support multi shift structure, including unsociable and weekends as the business requires.

Helping you feel good.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind.

At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.

Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as:

• free gym membership
• health assessments
• retail discounts
• pension options

Nuffield Health Glasgow Hospital Located in the heart of the West End of Glasgow; you will be working at one of Scotland’s leading private hospitals.

This year, we embarked on phase three of our multi-million-pound refurbishment, adding state of the art equipment like our Mako robotic arm for orthopaedic surgery and a new ambulatory theatre.

We have a special focus in the areas of orthopaedics, spinal surgery, ophthalmology, weight loss surgery and cosmetic treatment.

Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today.

Nuffield Health, is the UK’s largest healthcare charity. For over 60 years, we’ve been working to make the UK fitter, healthier, happier and stronger. All for the public benefit. We do this through our family of 31 award‑winning hospitals, 113 fitness and wellbeing centres, healthcare clinics and over a 100 workplace wellbeing services. As a charity, we reinvest all our income into our services, into pioneering improvements in care, and most importantly into our social impact programmes, which are designed to support people who would not normally be able to afford or access our services.

Its all part of our mission to give everyone the care they need and to build a healthier nation.