Laundry Team Leader

We are recruiting for a Laundry Team Leader who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
The Laundry team leader will be the first point of contact which will require high visibility to all service users and the staff/teams that they lead. The post holders main duties will be to assist the Laundry Management team in the day to day operational managing of the Laundry & Linen Services function, whilst maintaining a high quality of Service to MFT and its external clients., Your primary responsibility/duty is to lead all aspects of the daily operations of the Laundry & Linen Services, by providing an excellent customer focused service, ensuring that the tasks/duties are completed in a professional and timely fashion.
Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.

Working for our organisation
Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of the Best of Care by the Best of People providing excellent care, every time?
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision is achieved for our patients.
As a key partner in the healthcare of our local population, we are keen to deliver this as an outcome of our Trust-wide strategy - Patient First. Using an Operational Excellence approach to align our priorities and operational management structures, we are just over a year and half into our Patient First deployment. We are looking for creative, skilled people to join our Transformation Team and further support us on this journey.
Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our BEST values underpin Patient First and are at the core of the care we give to our patients, the support we offer to our staff and our overall leadership approach:
B - Bold
E - Every person counts
S - Sharing and open
T - Together
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust., To be responsible for ensuring that staff are trained in the correct use of all laundry processing equipment and that all bedding and linen is processed in accordance with its requirements and in line with relevant legislation and HTM 01-04.
To lead the Laundry staff, to include but not exclusive: appraisals, attendance, booking of bank staff, sickness / absence records through the use of the Trust Policies, SOPs and databases.
To assist in maintaining adequate staffing levels by co-ordinating and producing staff duties/rosters, ensuring that any staff absence is covered.
To monitor the staff performance, ensuring laundering standards are maintained.