Domestic Supervisor

Based in the RVI, the post holder will provide supervisory support to all domestic and linen room staff. The post holder will be responsible for providing supervisory cover to the hotel services domestic team, to be responsible for the supervision of cleaning methods and frequencies in designated areas of the hospital, ensuring that the required standards are achieved in line with Infection Control and national standards. The post holder will also be responsible for carrying out audits, and ensuring any further actions required are undertaken.
To Supervise domestic assistants, linen room assistants and linen room porters as well as train on specific machinery, correct cleaning methods and ensure mandatory training is kept up to date.
Carry out appraisals within a timely manner and help to action any further development plans.
Flexibility in the role is a must due to business demands, as this role is to cover holidays and sickness over all shifts. This will include dayshift, evening shift and nightshift over seven days a week on a roster basis., + To be responsible for the supervision of cleaning methods and frequencies in a designated area of the hospital, ensuring that the required standards are achieved.
+ To supervise the domestic assistants, linen room assistants and linen room porters to ensure that their duties are carried out safely and using correct procedures and materials at frequencies laid down in the specification of work.
+ Also the training of domestics to use machinery and the correct methods of cleaning.
+ To ensure timely completion of PLB/appraisals for domestic staff.
+ To ensure all mandatory training is completed on time.
+ To adhere to the civility charter and display good practice.
Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month's pay.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Important note on completion of reference section of Application Form
All references from current and previous employers will be sought and must cover a minimum of 3 years employment. Therefore, when completing the reference section of your application form, please give the address, telephone number and work email address of each of your current/previous line managers that cover 3 years employment. Failure to complete this section may result in your application not being processed.
Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month's pay.
Candidates who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail. You should check your SPAM folders as well as your inbox. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date you should assume your application has been unsuccessful.

We are looking for a dynamic, motivated, passionate individual to join our team.
We are a multi disciplinary team with over 400 staff and we pride ourselves in achieving the highest standards of cleaning through out the Hospital by working in line with National standards.
We are looking for motivated individuals to join our team within Hotel Services, so if you hold or are working towards an NVQ level 3 or Equivalent qualification this role this maybe for you.
The ideal candidates will be able to demonstrate excellent communication, time management skills and be able to motivate large staffing groups.
Being able to work as part of a team and also on your own initiative, flexibility to business needs is paramount to this role.

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We're also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients 'contacts' each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people's race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team., Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We're also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 2 million patients 'contacts' each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people's race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.