Clinical Cleaning Lead

Are you an experienced cleaning leader with a passion for maintaining the highest standards of healthcare cleanliness and infection prevention? We're seeking a dedicated Clinical Cleaning Lead to oversee the delivery of cleaning services at Catterick Integrated Care Centre. Leading a team of cleaning professionals, you'll play a critical role in creating a safe, hygienic, and welcoming environment for patients, visitors and healthcare staff while ensuring full compliance with NHS cleanliness standards. About you: You are a hands-on leader who leads by example and takes pride in maintaining exceptional standards. You have experience managing teams within a healthcare, clinical or NHS setting and understand the vital role that cleanliness and infection prevention play in supporting patient care. Organised, proactive and solution-focused, you're confident managing rotas, responding to changing priorities and developing team members to achieve their best. Why join us?

• Free parking on-site
• Fantastic benefits: Access to our Employee Benefits app with online GP, Employee Assistance Scheme, and hundreds of discounts.
• Company benefits: Life assurance, pension contributions, generous holiday entitlement (with the option to buy more).
• Career growth: We LOVE to promote from within! Plus, great training and apprenticeship opportunities to keep your learning journey going.

What you'll do:

As the Clinical Cleaning Lead, you'll provide visible, hands‑on leadership across the cleaning operation, ensuring services are delivered safely, efficiently and in full compliance with NHS cleanliness and infection control standards.

• Leading, motivating, and supporting the cleaning team daily.
• Managing staff rotas, annual leave, sickness cover, and resource allocation to ensure operational requirements are consistently met.
• Conducting regular cleanliness audits across clinical, public, and administrative areas.
• Maintaining compliance records, audit documentation, and cleaning schedules.
• Ensuring all cleaning activities are carried out in accordance with NHS standards, COSHH regulations and infection prevention protocols.
• Supporting the onboarding, training, and development of team members.
• Delivering daily briefings and fostering a positive, high-performing team culture.
• Managing cleaning consumables, PPE, and equipment stock levels.
• Working closely with clinical teams to support specialist cleaning and decontamination requirements.
• Promoting a strong culture of health, safety, and continuous improvement throughout the service. We're keen to hear from candidates who can bring strong leadership skills, operational expertise and a genuine commitment to excellence.

Essential

• Previous experience in a Cleaning Supervisor, Team Leader, or similar management role.
• Experience working within a healthcare, clinical or NHS environment.
• Strong understanding of infection prevention and control procedures.
• Experience managing staff rotas, attendance, and team performance.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Good IT skills, including the use of Microsoft Office applications.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise and adapt to changing operational demands.

Desirable

• Recognised qualification in healthcare cleaning, infection control or health and safety, such as:
• BICSc qualification
• NVQ Level 3 in Health & Safety, Cleaning Services, or equivalent
• Experience using digital auditing and workforce scheduling systems.