Employer: Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Workplace building, Torbay Hospital
Town: Torquay
Salary: £24,071 - £25,674 Pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 30/01/2025 23:59
Band 3
Job Overview
Reporting to our Deputy Cleaning Operations Manager, this is 1 of 3 posts providing service cover from 06:00 hours – 22:00 hours, 7 days a week on a rota basis.
Our Cleaning Team Leader supports the day-to-day management of approximately 129 WTE Healthcare Cleaning staff and is vital to maintaining our Trust’s Cleaning and Infection Control policies, ensuring a clean and safe environment for patients, staff, and visitors.
Main Duties of the Job
1. Be visible on the “shop floor”; supporting Cleaning Operations staff, carrying out visual inspections of cleaning standards, ensuring cleaning tasks and cleaning sign-off sheets are undertaken and completed in line with the required cleaning standards.
2. Under the direction of our Deputy Cleaning Manager, support the delivery of the highest standard of cleaning services to patients, staff, and visitors.
3. Play a key role in implementing the proposed new cleaning operations service model to ensure high-quality cleaning services are delivered to the NHS National Standards of Cleanliness and to our Trust’s Cleaning and Infection Control policies.
Working for Our Organisation
As an integrated care organisation, our Trust’s purpose is to provide safe, high-quality health and social care at the right time, in the right place to support the people of Torbay and South Devon to live their lives to the full.
The Workplace Teams underpin the provision of clinical services, employing approximately 600 staff, delivering support services across all sites within our Trust. We need all Workplace staff to own and live our organisational values:
* Working together for people
* Commitment to quality care
* Compassion
* Improving lives
* Everyone counts
* Respect and dignity
Person Specification
Criteria
* Basic education to GCSE level including English and Maths qualifications.
* Experience of working to deadlines and multi-tasking is essential.
* Experience of supervising and motivating teams.
* NVQ3 Supervisory Management / ILM3 or equivalent qualification.
You will be joining the organisation at an exciting time. As the first fully integrated care organisation in England, we are working to improve the way we deliver safe, high-quality health and social care. We have a positive and vibrant working atmosphere, and we are proud of our investment in our staff both in terms of developing potential career skills and valuing people.
If you provide support to a family member or friend with health or care needs, we aim to be a Carer-friendly employer. We have a ‘Staff Carers’ policy which includes flexible working where possible and a Carer’s Passport scheme that links you into support and discounts.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
* We reserve the right to close vacancies early if we receive a high volume of applications. Please apply promptly.
* Please read the job description and tailor your application to reflect the role.
* Correspondence will be via Trac, text, and email. Please check your email and Trac account regularly.
* Applicants with no previous NHS experience will ordinarily be appointed to the minimum of the band.
* If you have not received an invitation to interview within 28 days of the closing date, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.
* It is your responsibility to assist us in the timely receipt of appropriate references.
The Trust is committed to preventing discrimination, valuing diversity, and achieving equality of opportunity. No person (staff, patient, or public) will receive less favourable treatment on the grounds of the nine protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. If you require support you can obtain this from our Equality Business Forum which has representatives from all protected groups.
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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