Housekeeping Team Lead HOD

Housekeeping Team Lead / HOD

Glasgow Hospital Cleaning Permanent Contract Full Time

Up to 27000 per annum depending on experience

37.5 hours per week

At Nuffield Health the UKs largest healthcare charity everything we give our patients members and customers would not be possible without you. Your passion your warmth your drive to make a difference. Whether its driving connected health helping the nation transforming experiences or building the career you want we give you the support to do it all. Join our journey. It starts with you.

Keeping our hospitals clean is a big priority for us. At Nuffield Health we believe a clean and safe environment is essential to delivering outstanding care. Were looking for a Housekeeping Head of Department to supervise and support our cleaning team ensuring the highest standards of cleanliness and service for our patients staff and visitors. Bringing strong communication and leadership skills youll manage rotas oversee stock control and prioritise workloads effectively. With good IT and customer service skills as well as an eye for detail youll also play a hands-on role in daily housekeeping duties helping to create a welcoming and safe environment.

Housekeeping Head of Department Key Responsibilities

• Ensure all cleaning products and equipment are used safely and effectively adhering to health and safety procedures while meeting service deadlines.

• Monitor and maintain stock levels ensuring the team has the necessary resources to deliver consistently high standards.

• Oversee core administrative duties including rota planning scheduling stock control audits and maintaining accurate training records.

• Serve as the primary point of contact for reporting and resolving issues related to work areas or equipment working closely with management to implement effective solutions and manage complaints.

• Maintain a safe hygienic environment by ensuring full compliance with health and safety regulations and audit requirements.

• Provide daily supervision to the housekeeping team including task scheduling inductions staff development and training and managing leave and absences.

• Ensure all work is completed efficiently to a high standard and in accordance with infection prevention policies and established procedures.

• Reporting to the Facilities Manager

Housekeeping Head of Department Essential Requirements

• SVQ/NVQ Level 2 in Housekeeping or an equivalent qualification.

• Experience in a supervisory & management of housekeeping or domestic services role within a hospital or healthcare setting.

• Selfmotivated with strong organisational skills.

• Commercial awareness and an understanding of service efficiency.

• Confident using data systems and computer applications.

• Ability to carry out manual handling tasks involving frequent moderate physical effort throughout each shift.

• Proven ability to lead motivate and support staff effectively.

• Required to support multi shift structure including unsociable and weekends as the business requires.

Helping you feel good.

We want you to love coming to work feeling healthy happy and valued. Thats why weve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here you can choose from a range of fitness lifestyle health and fitness wellbeing rewards such as free gym membership health assessments retail discounts and pension options. At Nuffield Health we take care of whats important to you.

Nuffield Health Glasgow Hospital

Located in the heart of the West End of Glasgow; you will be working at one of Scotlands leading private hospitals. This year we embarked on phase three of our multi-million-pound refurbishment adding state of the art equipment like our Mako robotic arm for orthopaedic surgery and a new ambulatory theatre. We have a special focus in the areas of orthopaedics spinal surgery ophthalmology weight loss surgery and cosmetic treatment.

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