Facilities Services Assistant; Team Leader

This Facilities Services Assistant (Team Leader) post sits in the Facilities Services Team within the Community Hospitals of Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. The work is hospital cleaning on the wards, covering bays, side rooms, sanitary areas and patient equipment, with terminal cleans and waste handling under infection control rules. Alongside cleaning, the post holder gives informal shift leadership and acts as point of contact in the Supervisor's absence, with no line management, on a rotating 34-hour pattern that includes weekends.

Preference goes to staff with Priority and At Risk status, including NHS At Risk staff across Devon.

• General environmental cleaning on wards, including all sanitary areas such as toilets, bathrooms, showers and sluice rooms
• Daily and weekly cleaning of patient equipment
• Daily cleaning of bays, side rooms, nurses' station and designated areas to the daily work schedule
• Cleaning to the National Specification for Cleanliness in the NHS (2021), PAS 5748, and Trust cleaning and patient equipment policies
• Terminal cleaning of bed spaces and side rooms as required
• Replenishing alcohol gel dispensers and hand hygiene supplies, including aprons, gloves, paper towels and soap
• Replenishing hand towels, toilet paper and hand soap to maintain infection control standards
• Emptying, cleaning and relining waste bins, and securing and compacting waste for disposal under clinical and non-clinical waste regulations
• Cleaning internal glass and mirrors to the daily work schedule
• Vacuuming carpets and static and damp mopping hard floors
• Cleaning and drying WCs, wash hand basins, baths, showers, sinks and sluices
• Informal leadership, day-to-day operational support and guidance to colleagues during the shift, and point of contact in the Supervisor's absence

• Funding for a care certificate, degree or leadership qualifications
• Days off to study, CPD or rotational placements
• Flexible working schemes and family friendly policies
• 27 days paid annual leave plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days
• Occupational health services including counselling and wellbeing activities
• Staff discounts, including Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts
• Salary sacrifice options including an onsite nursery at Exeter, car lease and cycle to work schemes
• NHS Pension scheme