The Facilities Supervisor is a member of the LPT Estates and Facilities team. The postholder will support the Facilities Co-ordinator in the delivery of high-quality soft facilities services and be responsible for managing the effective and efficient delivery of local site services and facilities on a day to day basis.
The postholder will assist the Facilities Co-ordinator in the day to day running of the multi-skilled Facilities Department, ensuring effective utilisation of resources.
The postholder will report to the Facilities Co-ordinator and will be responsible for ensuring all services are delivered in accordance with National Standards and on occasions will be expected to deputise for the Facilities Co-ordinator.
The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that services delivered are compliant and that patients and visitors are treated in a safe and appropriate environment and staff have the ability to effectively deliver the required care.
The postholder will be enthusiastic and highly motivated with good communication, organisational skills and analytical approaches to problem solving. You will have the ability to promote the Facilities department and present a customer focused service and to develop, learn and apply new skills and keep up to date with technological progression.
The postholder will be expected to work a variety of shifts patterns covering weekends and bank holidays
Please note in cases where a high volume of applications are received for a post, the closing date may be brought forward. Therefore, applicants are advised to submit their completed application form as early as possible.
Previous applicants need not apply.
To source and order goods or services in line with best practice and procedure. To undertake stock control, monitoring progress of orders, dealing with discrepancies and maintaining records of all purchases to ensure that invoice scan be reconciled
Produce food and cleaning consumable orders to ensure maintain adequate stock levels
Responsible for raising requisitions (using Saffron), receipting of goods in relation to goods received and inspecting deliveries to ensure they match order and invoice criteria. Receiving and signing for deliveries and processing invoices.
Responsible for leadership and guidance of the Facilities staff, often supervising multiple roles and promoting an environment of operational excellence serving the frontline connection between excellent customer service to our patients and customers and employee engagement
To ensure staff adhere to the Trust colour coding system to prevent cross infection.
To ensure staff preparing meal for and regeneration of patient meals at ward level adhering to Trust Food Safety Management policies and procedures at all times
Ensure that all equipment and materials are kept clean and in a good state of repair, reporting defects immediately using agreed system and ensuring that they are available to use in the quickest time possible
Implement deep cleaning when necessary including use of hydrogen peroxide decontamination machines, steam cleaning, carpet cleaning, changing curtains etc.
Ensure vacuuming, dusting, cleaning of surfaces, mopping of floors and cleaning of beds are in line with service agreements
Benefits
Competitive salary including payments for unsocial hours, Saturday and Sunday enhanced pay.
Free car parking.
Paid induction& training.
Pension scheme.
27 days paid holiday plus BH.
Access to Blue Light and health service discounts.
We are recruiting across various sites and some roles will be mobile therefore may not suitable for public transport but if you live within Leicester one of the sites may be within your community.
We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.
About Us
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.
We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.
Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents.
We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.
For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).
All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.
For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.
Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.