Domestic Supervisor in Liverpool

Main area Domestic Grade Band 3 Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 20 hours per week (Monday - Friday 4pm - 8pm) Job ref 287-CEF-514-24

Employer Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Broadgreen Hospital Town Liverpool Salary £24,625 - £25,674 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 29/07/2025 23:59

Domestic Supervisor

Band 3

Job overview

To provide direct supervision and organisation of the domestic team. To arrange cover for absences and unforeseen instances and facilitate any adjustment of work schedules in light of daily requirements to meet service needs to obtain acceptable standards of cleaning.

To ensure all staff in the team are working to Trust polices and are correctly instructed and trained in the use of operating methods, equipment and techniques required to provide a safe environment
Responsible for the day to day domestic service within a specified shift time and allocated zone.

Main duties of the job

Ensuring the rotas are covered. Allocation of work to Domestic assistants. Liaise with management to ensure there is a continuation of service in the event of major staff shortages. Priorities urgent requests. Authorise overtime within the allocated budget.

Training of staff in basic job skills under the direction of Management.

Training of health and safety, including cascade training and the monthly toolbox training. Ensuring that the staff are complaint with the mandatory training including COSHH. Making arrangements for staff to attend training.

Tool box training. Ensure that staff are trained in the Toolbox training. Record the information on the appropriate documents on the computer. Get involved with the development of tool box training sheets.

Carry out staff appraisals.

Cooperates on matters of health and safety and ensures that all staff comply with current Health and safety practices.

Ensuring all staff carry out their duties to the required standard as determined by Management. Identify and resolve staff performance problems. Highlight issues with management.

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.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Ensuring the rotas are covered. Allocation of work to Domestic assistants. Liaise with management to ensure there is a continuation of service in the event of major staff shortages. Priorities urgent requests. Authorise overtime within the allocated budget.

Training of staff in basic job skills under the direction of Management.

Training of health and safety, including cascade training and the monthly toolbox training. Ensuring that the staff are complaint with the mandatory training including COSHH. Making arrangements for staff to attend training.

Tool box training. Ensure that staff are trained in the Toolbox training. Record the information on the appropriate documents on the computer. Get involved with the development of tool box training sheets.

Carry out staff appraisals.

Cooperates on matters of health and safety and ensures that all staff comply with current Health and safety practices.

Ensuring all staff carry out their duties to the required standard as determined by Management. Identify and resolve staff performance problems. Highlight issues with management.

Under the direction of management, authority to give informal disciplinary warnings.

Report any issues with staff that do not comply with Aintree values.

Maintaining Trust standards of hygiene at all times, including personal cleanliness, working practices.

Handling customer complaints in conjunction with Management. Completing all the relevant documentation.

Person specification

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 3 in leadership (or equivalent)

Experience

• Previous cleaning experience at a supervisory level
• Previous experience of cleaning
• Previous cleaning experience at a supervisory level within a healthcare environment
• Previous experience of cleaning within a healthcare environment

Knowledge

• An understanding of C.O.S.H.H. regulations
• Health and safety basic knowledge
• An understanding of the operating of cleaning machinery

Skills

• Basic data inputting either manually or using a computer/tablet
• Basic numeracy and literacy skills
• Ability to work as part of a team

Other

• Prepared to study for NVQ level 3 in leadership
• Ability and willingness to undertake further training as necessary

Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.

Posts advertised to ‘internal staff’ are open to employees of hospitals within University Hospitals of Liverpool Group and you should confirm your employment within your application form.

Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria.

Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

Candidatesapplying for the role of Healthcare Assistant on the staff bank should note that due to the nature of the role, workers must be aged 18 or above when commencing in post. Applicants are therefore welcome from those aged over 18 or within 3 months’ of their 18 th birthday.

The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.

The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.

Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £23 (standard disclosure) or £43 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment. DBS applications submitted from 2nd December will be subject to the new DBS fee of £26.50 (standard) and £54.50 (Enhanced).

From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years.

Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults’ policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures.

Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation.

All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action.

As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.

If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on 0151 706 4666 at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post.

Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.

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.