Housekeeping Supervisor - Band 3

• Please see attached document for hours to be worked

Supporting the delivery of Housekeeping to corporate and ward areas and, where applicable, Linen Services, to the Trust, and leading the Housekeeping team in delivering high quality services to all areas; supporting the delivery of service modernisation and National Initiatives.

Assisting in establishing Hotel Services as having day-to-day "ownership" of the Hospital environment for the Facilities Division.

The post of the Housekeeping Section leader is to Support the delivery of Housekeeping and, where applicable, Linen Services, to the Trust, ensuring that hospital Clinics, Departments and Corridor areas are maintained to the highest standards of hygiene, environmental cleanliness and appearance and leading the Housekeeping team in delivering high quality services to all areas; supporting the delivery of service modernisation and National Initiatives.

We require a Supervisor with ability to use your own initiative and a positive sense of, and approach towards customer care. Flexibility towards the work so as to meet changing needs and priorities at all times is required. You should be of smart appearance and demonstrate good communication skills.

In the application form "Supporting Information" section please identify what skills you already have and the skills you feel are transferable to this role, also details of the qualities/attributes you feel will be beneficial to the post.

Grantham and District Hospital serves the communities of Grantham and the local area. It provides ambulatory paediatric and accident and emergency services.

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has been granted teaching hospital status, after demonstrating evidence to significant teaching commitment. From now on it will be known as United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) have come together in a Group arrangement, with the goal of improving the care provided to patients across the county.

This will not constitute a formal merger of the two organisations, but will bring the Trusts together under a single Board and Executive Leadership Team, with the goal of improving the care that is provided to patients both in the community and in hospitals across Lincolnshire. Both Trusts will retain their separate statutory names and legal obligations.

The Group will be known as Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG).

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• oGCSE grade C or equivalent in Maths and English
• oComputer literacy to RSA level 2 or equivalent
• oHealth and Safety qualification
• oNVQ Level 2 in Customer Care.

• oPrevious NHS experience or experience of working in a high level customer service environment.
• oPrevious Supervisory experience
• oPrevious NHS experience or experience of working in a high level customer service environment.
• oBe able to demonstrate previous experience of training of staff
• oLiteracy, numeracy and comprehension skills sufficient to complete timesheets and monitoring documents, calculate costs of orders, produce memos and short reports, complete Annual Appraisal documentation.
• oAble to demonstrate ability to take the lead role of supervising part of an inter-disciplinary team.
• oAble to demonstrate the ability to work to deadlines and complete tasks according to objectives and to motivate others to do the same.
• oAble to demonstrate the ability to use initiative to resolve problems and to prioritise own workload and that of others.
• oAble to demonstrate a high standard of interpersonal skills and the ability to deal with people from all sections of society.
• oAwareness and Knowledge of the dignity in care agenda
• oAbility to evidence/demonstrate key values and behaviours in line with the Trust framework
• oCoaching skills

• oAble to demonstrate a flexible approach to changes in workload/duties/priorities and to motivate others to adopt the same approach.
• oAble to demonstrate the ability to react quickly and sensitively to a wide range of differing needs.
• oAble to demonstrate previous experience of office systems.
• oAble to demonstrate eagerness to embrace change.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Group Deputy Head of Facilities management