Site Supervisor

Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust; Canterbury; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health trust in England seeks a Site Supervisor responsible for managing housekeeping staff and ensuring high standards of maintenance and communication. Duties include overseeing audits, managing queries, and supporting staff. Candidates should have prior supervisory experience, knowledge of COSHH, and strong communication skills. This position is crucial for maintaining the quality of mental health services across Kent and Medway.

Qualifications

• Experience of COSHH.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Previous Supervisory Experience minimum 2 years.

Responsibilities

• Line Manage House keeping staff, including training, sickness, annual leave and cover.
• Point of contact for any site management requests, including showing contractors.
• Attend and rectify audit requests.
• Able to visit and navigate around all multi-floored sites.

Job description

The expectation of the role is that you would be out and about on the in-patient site, completing audits, checking stock levels and monitoring performance. As a Site Supervisor you will be expected to effectively line manage staff on a daily basis, you will assist with the co-ordinating of staff around the site when and in the event of staff sickness, training etc.

You will also be required to maintain stocks and utilise the system for the replenishment of stocks.

You will be expected to use the trust Maps system which is for the recording of hours and annual leave for the team of staff you manage.

You will be expected to answer the telephone and emails within the site management team office to assist the whole site with any queries.

Main duties of the job

• Line Manage House keeping staff, including training requirements, sickness, annual leave and cover, recruitment, wellbeing
• Point of contact for any site management request. including showing external contractors around the site.
• Attend and rectify audit request
• Meeting Service Managers Acutely unwell patients and Family Members Site will vary between in-patient Out-patient and Office areas
• Able to visit and navigate around all multi-floored sites
• Occasionally assist with cleaning duties when necessary
• Support all staff under your remit both emotionally and respectfully.
• Maintain confidentiality around staff sensitivities

About us

We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway. Our teams support adults with a wide range of mental health needs. Because we cover the whole county and both hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the 1.8 million people of Kent and Medway. Rated 'Good' by the CQC, we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 in the community each year.

Our vision is simple: We are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It's why we're passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. And everything we do is guided by our values caring, inclusive, curious and confident.

Join us - if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that's doing well together.

Check out our Canterbury site

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description for the full details on the responsibilities and person specification

Maintain excellent working relationships with the below provided list which is not exhaustive:

House Keeping Staff Trust Facilities Team Estates and Capitol |Planning Team Fire Team Service Managers General Managers, Matrons, Service Leads. External Contractors Finance and Procurement colleagues

Person Specification

Training, Qualifications and Registration

• English and Maths Level 4
• NVQ Cleaning

Experience

• Experience of COSHH
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Previous Supervisory Experience minimum 2 years

Knowledge & Skills

• Ability to demonstrate as a self motivator and work on own initiative
• Knowledge of the National Cleaning Standards
• Deal appropriately with service users, staff and the general public
• Monitoring of staff

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.