Patient Environment Services Supervisor

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust; Barrow-in-Furness; Presencial; GBP 19.000 - 27.000; A tiempo parcial

Descripción de la vacante

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a part-time supervisor for Portering, Domestic Cleaning and Site Services at Furness General Hospital in Barrow-in-Furness. You will supervise a team, provide training and attend to administration and rotas, ensuring high standards of patient environment services across facilities.

The role requires relevant supervisory experience, COSHH and health & safety qualifications, and the ability to coordinate weekend shifts while delivering excellent

Formación

• NVQ 2 or equivalent or BICS in cleaning sciences (Cleaning)
• Award in Risk Assessment
• Gas safety awareness certificate
• Certificate in Health and Safety; leadership experience
• Relevant supervisory experience
• Experience with IT-based systems

Responsabilidades

• Provide supervision, support, training and development to Patient Environment Service Assistants
• Carry out administration duties in line with departmental procedures and Trust policies
• Conduct own team appraisals and return-to-work sickness meetings
• Prioritise workload and location of staff to ensure a quality, efficient service
• Arrange duty rotas and holidays; cover sickness within budget constraints
• Ensure correct usage of approved cleaning materials per manufacturer specifications and COSHH data sheets
• Review and audit work to ensure schedules and policies are followed

Conocimientos

Team leadership

IT systems experience

Team working

Educación

NVQ2 or equivalent (Cleaning sciences)

COSHH certificate

Award in Risk Assessment

Gas safety awareness

Health and Safety certificate

Descripción del empleo

The post holder will supervise a team of staff in providing a quality and efficient comprehensive portering, domestic cleaning and site services at our Furness General Hospital site in line with the National Cleaning Standards, department Standing Operational Procedures and Trust Policies. To ensure a high standard of Patient Environmental Site services are delivered across a range of facilities services. To provide excellent customer service to our patients, colleagues and members of the public at all times. Communicate effectively and in a timely manner with a range of hospital staff, the public, patients and colleagues across the Trust. This position is part time and includes shifts including weekends.Main duties of the job Providing supervision, support, training and development to Patient Environment Service Assistants. Carry out administration duties in line with the job role, departmental procedures and Trust policies. Carry out own team appraisals and return to work sickness meetings and review meetings as required. Prioritise work load and location of staff in order to provide a quality and efficient service. Arrangement of duty rotas to suit the needs of the service, planning and allocating holiday requests. Covering sickness and working within financial constraints of the department set by management following approval and under the guidance of line management. Ensuring correct usage of approved cleaning materials to the manufacturer's specification and COSSH data sheets. To review, audit and ensure that work is carried out by the service staff in accordance with work schedules, in line with the national cleanliness standard and Trust operational policies.

Qualifications

• Relevant related NVQ 2 or equivalent experience or (British Institute Cleaning Science) BICS qualification in cleaning sciences, Certificate in COSHH
• Award in Risk Assessment
• Gas safety awareness certificate
• Certificate in Health and Safety, Demonstrate a period of leading a team within a busy Environment. Team Working.
• Relevant Supervisory Experience
• Experience working with computers IT based systems

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of Cleaning in a large setting or health care establishment
• Knowledge of acute hospital environment
• Knowledge of customer care
• Knowledge of medical gas handling, Ability to deal with information sensitively and confidentially
• Deal with a diverse range of people face to face
• Able to demonstrate leadership skills
• Ability to deal with internal and external communication using both verbal and written material
• Team Building skills
• Able to demonstrate problem solving methods
• Able to demonstrate and address manual handling assessments

Desirable criteria

• Able to assess and communicate risks within their area of responsibility
• Able to communicate within a team and provide diverse feedback to colleagues and line managers, Ability to travel between the Trust sites as required.
• To demonstrate flexibility in approach to work patterns

Collaboration and Service Environment

Deal with day to day work loads Lancashire and South Cumbria Provider Collaborative (OneLsc) The five provider NHS trusts in Lancashire and South Cumbria are working together as partners, delivering joint priorities to improve health and healthcare. Together, we aim to drive up quality by sharing skills and best practice, pooling our resources and standardising the way we work to reduce variation and duplication. We want to ensure patients have equal access to the same high-quality care wherever they live. We also want our colleagues to have the same high-quality experience wherever they work. One Lancashire and South Cumbria (One LSC) and University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay has a firm commitment to strengthening the diversity of our workforce, and therefore welcome and encourage applications from likeminded people who can support our ambition to become effortlessly inclusive. We are particularly keen to hear from protected groups - including BAME, LGBT+ and people with a disability., We operate from three main hospitals-Furness General Hospital (FGH) in Barrow, the Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI), and Westmorland General Hospital (WGH) in Kendal, as well as a number of community healthcare premises including Millom Hospital and GP Practice, Queen Victoria Hospital in Morecambe, and Ulverston Community Health Centre. FGH and the RLI have a range of General Hospital services, with full Emergency Departments, Critical/Coronary Care units and various Consultant-led services. WGH provides a range of General Hospital services, together with an Urgent Treatment Centre, that can help with a range of non-life threatening conditions such as broken bones and minor illnesses. All three main hospitals provide a range of planned care including outpatients, diagnostics, therapies, day case and inpatient surgery. In addition, a range of local outreach services and diagnostics are provided from community facilities across Morecambe Bay.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

The Trust is an equal opportunities employer, committed to improving the working lives of our staff and operates a 'Zero Tolerance' policy to aggression, violence, bullying and harassment. In addition, our aim is to help protect children and vulnerable adults by providing a first-class service to the recruitment of people into positions of trust. We aim to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from everyone irrespective of ethnic origin, gender, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, disability or social background. We especially welcome applications from members of our black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities, as we have identified that ELHT has an under-representation of BAME employees. Appointments will be made on merit.

Pay and benefits

• Please note that the salary advertised is for full time hours. If this post is less than 37.5 hours per week, the salary will be pro-rata. For posts on Agenda for Change pay-scales, new entrants to the NHS will normally commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.

Disclosure and Barring Scheme (DBS) If the role you are applying for is identified as either controlled or regulated activity as defined in in the Safeguarding vulnerable Groups Act (2006) any offer of employment is provisional upon a satisfactory DBS check being obtained. The healthcare sector is exempted from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. In line with other NHS organisations in the North West Region, the Trust is now passing the charge for undertaking a DBS check on to candidates in the event they are successfully appointed into the post for which they have applied. Candidates can choose whether to pay this over 1-3 months as a deduction from the monthly salary. However, if you are applying for a post as a BANK worker, the payment must be made in full at the time of employment checks. By applying for this vacancy you are agreeing to this undertaking in the event you are successfully appointed. The cost for an Enhanced DBS, is £45.90 and for a Basic & Standard, this is £24.90 this cost includes a £4.90 admin fee.