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Job Summary
We are seeking a motivated individual to undertake a Supervisory/AUDITOR role within our Hotel Services Team in Royal Albert Edward Infirmary.
Working 15 hours per week. Working rota: Monday - Friday, 10.30 - 13.30, flexible.
The role will involve conducting regular audits of sites, primarily through the use of electronic data collection systems. This role will suit someone with a keen eye for detail and an ability to support our team members in delivering an excellent cleaning service.
The post holder should have a flexible approach to working hours and be able to cover a variety of shift patterns as the service requires.
(This vacancy is open to all internal and external candidates. NHS Employees should ideally secure their manager's agreement for a secondment arrangement ideally prior to applying, as this will be a condition of any offer made. This vacancy is advertised on a fixed term basis, it has been established to provide cover for an employee on secondment and will end on 3rd August 2025 or when the substantive postholder returns. While this post is advertised on a fixed term/secondment basis, there is the potential that this post may become permanent in the future.)
Main duties of the job:
* Liaising with domestic and estates supervisors on urgent work.
* Reporting on audit outcomes.
* Contacting Matrons and Ward Managers/senior Sisters/Charge Nurses and positively dealing with feedback.
* Working as part of a supervisory and auditor team.
* Adopting a flexible approach.
* Offering any training support needed.
* Helping everyone to maintain government standards.
About us
Choose Well - Choose WWL
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that 'happy staff makes for happy patients'. We have a recognised track record in staff engagement and living our values 'the WWL Way'.
WWL is committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. With this in mind, we are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.
Good basic salary plus an attractive package of benefits which include:
* Excellent Pension & Life Assurance Package (over 20% employer contribution)
* Excellent annual leave entitlements 27 to 33 days per annum dependent upon service.
* Paid occupational maternity, paternity, and adoption leave dependent upon service.
* Training opportunities and eLearning resources.
* Health and wellbeing support.
* Career Progression opportunities within Estates & Facilities and the NHS.
* Access to salary sacrifice schemes for items such as lease vehicles and buy a bike schemes.
* NHS Discount schemes to access hundreds of discounts and savings from everything to High Street Stores to restaurants, family holidays, and more.
* Long Service Awards.
Date posted: 11 February 2025
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 3
Salary: £24,071 to £25,674 a year per annum, pro rata
Contract: Fixed term
Duration: 6 months
Working pattern: Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number: 302-25-6953247E
Job locations:
Royal Albert Edward Infirmary
Wigan Lane
Wigan
WN1 2NN
Job Description
Job responsibilities:
* Allocate & organise day-to-day work tasks and activities, adjust staff rotas for unplanned absences and release of staff for training.
* Security of buildings.
* Monitoring of performance of duties as laid down in work schedules.
* Performance of duties in accordance with approved methods, frequencies, and standards.
* Training & assessment of staff in the use of equipment machinery, COSHH, and cleaning materials as directed.
* Allocation of cleaning materials and equipment.
* Make spot checks on wards and Departments to check on cleaning standards.
* Monitor compliance with the uniform policy.
* Attend relevant training courses as directed.
* Completion of Datix reporting system.
* Adopt a flexible approach when undertaking duties as part of a team, including colleagues and other staff, working towards the highest possible standards of patient care.
* Hospital site key holder, key allocation of, user of alarm systems.
* Audit cleaning standards to National Standards and Quality assurance procedures on wards and Departments, taking corrective action when necessary.
* Liaise with wards, departments, and accommodation.
* Handle complaints and take preliminary action to resolve.
* Take action as necessary on reported accidents at work and defects with machinery and buildings. Carry out initial investigations into accidents at work.
* Implement policies and make recommendations to improve or change work practices for own area.
* Assist with Interview & selection of staff in compliance with the HR Recruitment policy.
* Training & assessing in conjunction with the Domestic Services Training protocols.
Please be advised, applications are scored against the person specification, detailed in the job advert. Candidates with highest scores will be invited to the interviews.
Please read the person specification and in your application (Supporting information section) please describe how you meet these criteria for the role.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential:
* C.I.L.B City and Guilds N.V.Q Level 1&2 or equivalent qualification.
* Ability to demonstrate supervisory experience in a Domestic or equivalent role.
Desirable:
* Health & Safety qualification.
* Team Leader/Supervisory qualification or equivalent.
Experience Essential:
* Understanding of the National Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness.
* Conversant with protocols in relation to infection control.
* Previous cleaning/domestic experience.
Desirable:
* Previous supervisory/auditor experience.
* Bioquell Q10 - HPV.
* Decontamination Knowledge.
Skills Essential:
* Safe operation and use of a variety of cleaning equipment.
* Key board skills.
Desirable:
* To be able to use IT packages including Teams, Outlook, Excel and Word.
Knowledge Essential:
* Full knowledge of domestic cleaning protocols.
* Knowledge of hygiene, health & safety, COSHH regulations.
* Knowledge of staff supervision.
* Understanding of rota management and annual leave.
Desirable:
* Knowledge of the Hospital site and departments within it.
* Knowledge of Trust/NHS policies.
Additional Essential:
* Speak English to an appropriate standard relevant to their role, i.e. with confidence and accuracy, using correct sentence structures and vocabulary, and without hesitation.
* Flexibility to provide cover for colleagues.
* The ability to work flexibly in accordance with service needs.
Desirable:
* Able to work unsociable hours.
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.
Employer details:
Employer name: Wrightington Wigan & Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Royal Albert Edward Infirmary
Wigan Lane
Wigan
WN1 2NN
Employer's website: http://www.wwl.nhs.uk/
Seniority level
* Entry level
Employment type
* Part-time
Job function
* Accounting/Auditing and Finance
* Industries: Hospitals and Health Care
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