Facilities Supervisor

Manchester Royal Eye Hospital; Manchester; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job description

NHS AfC: Band 3

Main area Domestic Grade NHS AfC: Band 3 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Flexible working

37.5 hours per week (Possible Alternate Weekends various start/finish times including early morning)

Job ref 349-COR-7043327*

Site Trafford General Hospital Town Manchester Salary £24,071 - £25,674 per annum, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 17/04/2025 23:59

Job Overview

You will be responsible for the first line management of the Domestic team within the department. You will ensure high quality services in a cost-effective manner, implementing best practice solutions to support continuous service improvement models: monitoring service provision; ensuring a prompt effective response to any service failures; ensuring a high quality environment is maintained for our patients, staff and visitors.

To oversee the day-to-day activity in the domestic department, ensuring that the service is delivered according to the service specification.

Allocation of existing staff and resources to ensure smooth running of the service.

Main duties of the job

A position has now become available for a Domestic Supervisor, Band 3 at Trafford Hospital Division working as part of the Estates and Facilities Team.

The job entails working within a very busy department where no day is ever the same. If you are an organised, self-motivated, pro-active, problem-solving individual then this is the post perfect for you. You will be responsible for the efficient day-to-day operation of the Domestic Service Team for the Trafford Division in liaison with the wider Clinical Teams.

The post holder must have supervisory experience with Domestic service and desirable would be experience of working within the Facilities services within the NHS.

The post is full time and does involve working weekends and a 4-week rotational shift pattern including early mornings and late shifts.

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at [e-mail].

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Educated up level 2 standard in literacy and numeracy

Desirable criteria

• Have experience of working within the NHS

Skills

Essential criteria

• Able to complete quality control documentation accurately and to a schedule.
• Providing advice, instruction or training to groups where the subject matter is straightforward
• Able to plan staff deployment, including managing rotas and allocating leave, ensuring continuous cover, within budget restraints.
• The ability to deal with complaints in line with Trust procedure.

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Able to communicate well through emails and via phone with all stakeholders, members of the public and staff
• Have a good knowledge of computers and able to send and receive emails
• Good understanding of Microsoft Office, Excel and Word
• Able to use Tablet and phone for various audits and job taking

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• Facilities Supervisor TWA - JD (PDF, 224.4KB)
• Supervisor Person Spec (PDF, 264.6KB)
• Functional requirements form v8 (PDF, 920.2KB)
• Candidate Essential Guide Non Medical (PDF, 1.3MB)

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name Kelly Whittle

Job title Deputy Facilities Manager

Email address [e-mail]

Telephone number 0161 746 2776