Head Housekeeper - Marlborough House

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

About

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible.

Key details

Location

Site: Marlborough House
Address: Standing Way
Town: Milton Keynes
Postcode: MK6 5LD
Major / Minor Region: Oxfordshire

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Salary

Salary: £24,071 - £25,674 plus an RSU allowance of £1,446 per annum | pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (Band 3)

Specialty

Main area

Estates and Facilities

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do.

Job overview

We're recruiting for a Head Housekeeper to join our team at Marlborough House in Milton Keynes to oversee management and performance of the directly employed soft FM cleaning and porter staff.

Marlborough House is a male only medium secure 28 bedded unit situated on the Milton Keynes General Hospital site.

You'll be working in conjunction with nursing staff to maintain a clean and safe environment. The service is responsible for maintaining patient rooms, public areas, back of house areas such as linen room and laundry areas, according to the organisation's policies and procedures at a level that meets or exceeds National Cleanliness standards.

If you have good experience in housekeeping and want to make a difference to NHS services, we would love to hear from you!

This role includes an RSU allowance of £1,446 per annum on top of your salary

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• Manage porters and cleaners and ensure that all service standards are met and maintained
• Carry out a localised induction with all new staff members
• Conduct managed staff
• Responsible for authorising annual leave and recording and managing sickness levels
• Ensure all staff mandatory and task specific training is completed in liaison with Facilities co-ordinator
• Support line manager with rotas and cleaning schedules
• Responsible for managing stock levels for cleaning consumables, linen and food stock levels and highlighting shortages to line manager to order

Please refer to the job description attached for a comprehensive list of duties

Working for our organisation

Oxford Health is a great place to work. At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount
• Pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (waiting lists may apply)
• Staff networking and support groups

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.

• All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
• Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
• We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
• Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
• We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Housekeeper experience

Desirable criteria

• Food hygiene knowledge

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• COSHH

Desirable criteria

• Working with chemicals

Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Jane Grimshaw
Job title: Facilities Support Manager
Email address: [email protected]
Telephone number: 07810 223813

At Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust we want to employ people not just with experience, but with the aptitude and motivation to succeed and whose values resonate with our own. Therefore, if you don’t meet all the requirements of the role and are unsure about applying but are excited about the opportunity, please do get in touch. We will be happy to discuss the requirements in more detail ahead of making a written application.