Main area: Domestic Services
Grade Band: 4
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 31.5 hours per week (various)
Job ref: 287-CEF-508-24
Employer: Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Aintree site
Town: Aintree
Salary: £26,530 - £29,114 per annum, pro rata (Annex 21 conditions will apply)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 30/01/2025 23:59
Apprentice Assistant Domestic Manager - Aintree Site
Band 4
Job overview
As an Apprentice Assistant Domestic Manager, you will be working towards an apprenticeship qualification for the role within the domestic services department, managing a very large team including supervisors and domestic assistants.
You will monitor cleaning standards, ensuring adherence to infection control policies and procedures as well as health and safety policies. You will also be responsible for conducting mandatory training.
The post is 31.5 hours per week and will include weekend work.
Main duties of the job
Liverpool University Hospitals are seeking to recruit an Assistant Domestic Manager for their Aintree site.
As the Assistant Domestic Manager, you will be responsible for managing morning, afternoon, and weekend domestic services to ensure that cleaning is delivered to the Trust's required standards.
You will manage a supervisory team and have daily contact with key stakeholders such as infection control and ward managers.
Cleaning management experience is an essential element for this role, and experience within a healthcare environment would be beneficial.
Strong people skills are required for this role.
Working for our organisation
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital, and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside, as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. To allocate tasks and responsibilities to the domestic supervisory team and take the necessary steps to ensure the specified service is provided.
2. To liaise daily with Ward Managers and be proactive in resolving difficulties in order to build and maintain good working relationships.
3. Attend meetings as requested with Control of Infection, Matrons, and Site management as required to assist in effective communications with both managers and service users.
4. Carry out regular Supervisor 1-1 meetings to assist in effective two-way communication and to communicate the Trust’s aims and objectives to Supervisors to then cascade to Domestic staff.
5. Control staffing worked hours, organizing workloads fairly and ensuring that labour hours are kept within the master rota.
6. Ensure Health and Safety compliance including conducting investigations into any accidents and the development and documentation of Risk Assessments.
7. To ensure that all machinery is safely maintained via the completion of an annual portable appliance test.
8. Development of local work schedules highlighting and monitoring general working practices and providing comprehensive and easily understood written instructions.
9. To assist the Domestic Services Manager with the day-to-day management of external contracts.
10. To be flexible in their working hours to carry out duties to sustain operational demands.
11. To ensure that all staff mandatory training is completed as per the required compliance.
12. To ensure that all areas are appropriately staffed in accordance with the master rota to ensure the required level of service is delivered.
13. At the direction of the Domestic Services Manager to undertake a range of projects involving multidisciplinary teams to critically evaluate new methods of working and initiatives directed by the Trust.
14. Any other reasonable request as may be required.
Person specification
Qualifications
* HND or equivalent in relevant area
* Supervisory or management qualification or equivalent
Experience
* Experience of domestic services management
* Experience of working as a cleaning operative within a non-healthcare environment
* Experience of domestic services management within a healthcare environment
* Experience of working as a Domestic Cleaning Assistant within a healthcare environment
Knowledge
* Technical knowledge of Domestic cleaning
* Financial management and budget control
* Health & Safety
* C.O.S.H.H
* Infection control
Skills
* Good written and verbal communication
* Excellent IT skills and the ability to use IT to generate management information
* Time Management
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Application numbers
This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.
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