Housekeeping Team Leader

​Housekeeping Team Leader

Nuffield Health Tees Hospital | Housekeeper | Permanent | Full Time |

Up to £25,760.00 per annum, depending on experience

37.5 hours per week

Please note, shift pattern to be discussed but evening and weekend work will be required on a rota basis.

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. We are looking for a Housekeeping Team Leader who will help us to create a clean, safe and pleasant environment for patients by cleaning and preparing a range of areas, utilising the latest equipment, products and supported by a first-class training programme. You will take pride in your work and undertake a variety of general responsibilities ranging from room cleaning, waste removal, linen collection and deep cleaning.

As a Housekeeping Team Leader, you will:

• To guarantee that cleaning products are used effectively, with instructions and health and safety procedures being followed at all times.

• To monitor and maintain stock levels for the team, ordering stock when required as advised by team and individual awareness

• To act as the point of contact for the reporting of problems within the work areas or equipment and liaising with the management team to advise

• To ensure Health and Safety and hygiene requirements within the area of responsibility are met

• To handle complaints within area of responsibility, either dealing with them directly or escalating as appropriate

• To liaise with other departments to ensure all service requirements are met

• To receive and check goods against purchase orders/delivery notes and deal with issues as they arise

• To deputise for line manager during periods of absence.

• To manage the laundry supply and service to site

• To carry out regular cleaning audits monitoring performance and assessing cleanliness of the environment

• To ensure adherence to Health & Safety, COSHH and Infection Control policies, reporting all incidents accidents or defaults to line manager

• To take specific responsibility for Environmental cleanliness including the implementation of infection prevention policies and procedures, the implementation of audit programmes designed to measure the adherence to policies and evaluate the local effectiveness of infection prevention systems, and to attend local Infection Prevention Team and Committee meetings, reporting audit findings and action plans.

• Working alongside the housekeeping team, the housekeeping team leader will be expected to clean and prepare areas for which you are responsible following the required policies and procedures.

• The role holder will be expected to perform any other cleaning duties that may reasonably be asked of them, including holiday and sickness cover and emergency Adhoc cleans.

• Providing day to day supervision of the team of housekeepers, including: Work scheduling/rotas, Induction, development and training, keeping individual staff records relating to annual leave and sickness absence

• Ensuring work is carried out to deadlines and within agreed working practices and procedures

• Carrying out regular one to one meetings with all team members

• Ensuring that the housekeeping team are aware of responsibilities and duties be to carried out on a daily basis and monitor as appropriate

• Co-ordinating and undertaking all domestic activities required to deliver a good service

• Assisting with the recruitment and/or training of staff

• Providing team members with opportunities to contribute to the planning and organisation of their work, supporting them and giving clear, sensitive and appropriate

• feedback to help improve and develop

• Developing and explaining plans and tasks, so that team members are fully aware of what is expected of them and are able to carry this out effectively

• Ensuring that planned resources are available for people to use at the time they need them

• Addresses poor performance constructively and appropriately

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. From financial and emotional wellbeing support to an online GP, gym membership and private healthcare. At Nuffield Health, we’ll take care of what’s important to you.

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

Applications will be considered as they are received, and interviews will be arranged accordingly. We reserve the right to close adverts early, for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications. Therefore, please apply early to ensure you are considered for the post.

It starts with you.