Domestic Services Team Leader | Mersey and West Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Domestic Services Team Leader | Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Employer:

St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Location:

Southport, PR8 6PN

Pay:

Contract Type:

Permanent

Hours:

Disability Confident:

Yes

Closing Date:

25/03/2026

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Domestic Services Team Leader to join our established Estates and Facilities Team here at Southport Hospital A Domestic Team Leader at Southport Hospital oversees a team of domestic assistants to ensure high standards of cleanliness, hygiene, and safety are maintained throughout the facility.

They are responsible for implementing infection control procedures, managing cleaning schedules (including deep cleaning), ensuring compliance with health and safety standards, and managing stock levels. 24 hour per week, various late shifts including weekend on a two week rota.

• To provide a customer focused service
• To organise, develop and improve the Domestic Service throughout the trust
• Responsible for the efficient management of all domestic services
• Responsible for ensuring compliance with all legislation relating to risk management
• To take lead role to ensure the National Specification of Cleanliness are met
• Liaise with the infection control team to help eradicate the risk of HCAI’s Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.

We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.

Our Services:
Acute Care Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.

Primary Care Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.

Community Services Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire.

Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients.

We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.

Specialist Regional Services We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

Achievements:

Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018

Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)

National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme Financial Management

Responsible for ensuring economical uses of all the trusts resources.

Maintain and monitor domestic stock levels to meet the demands of the service.

Distribute, maintain economic and effective use of chemicals and products.

On a weekly basis order cleaning products and equipment via the SBS on-line system.

The completion of SVL’s as appropriate.

Arrange cover for staff shortages within the constraints pf the budget as required.

Human Resources Management

Arrangement of Duty Rotas and immediate response to request for isolation room and deep cleans.

Monitor staff attendance and requirements for additional hours/bank staff.

Dissemination of information to staff e.g. team brief, new work procedures.

Responsible for ensuring total compliance with all trust policies.

To attend training course as required and participate in annual refresher sessions in accordance with the personal development programme.

Conduct personal development reviews within own team using the KSF online.

Conduct job counselling when required.

Take staff through the disciplinary procedure when appropriate.

Manage the sickness / absence process inline with the trust policy.

Training & Development

Involvement in the recruitment, selection and personal development reviews of staff.

To carry out the role of NVQ assessor ensuring candidates achieve their qualification.

To annually train and update staff on the departmental operational and health…