Housekeeping Team Leader
Plymouth Hospital | Cleaning | Permanent | Full time |
Competitive Salary - depending on skills and experience.
37.5 hours per week (Flexible : Days, Evenings, Weekends)
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 it’s 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. We’re looking for an experienced Housekeeping Team Leader 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, you’ll manage rotas, oversee stock control, and prioritise workloads effectively. With good IT and customer service skills, as well as an eye for detail, you’ll also play a hands-on role in daily housekeeping duties, helping to create a welcoming and safe environment.
As a Housekeeping Team Leader, you will:
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Lead and manage the housekeeping team on a day-to-day basis, ensuring high standards of cleanliness and service delivery
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Plan and coordinate staff rotas to meet operational needs effectively
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Take responsibility for recruitment, onboarding, and induction of new team members
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Support team development through training, coaching, regular communication, and team meetings
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Monitor performance through appraisals, and manage attendance, annual leave, and absence
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Ensure cleaning products and equipment are used safely and effectively, in line with health and safety procedures and service deadlines
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Maintain appropriate stock levels, ensuring the team has the resources required to perform their duties
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Oversee key administrative tasks, including rota management, stock control, audits, and maintaining accurate training records
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Act as the main point of contact for issues relating to work areas or equipment, resolving concerns and liaising with management where required, including handling complaints
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Promote and maintain a safe, clean, and hygienic environment, ensuring full compliance with health and safety and infection prevention policies
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Ensure all work is completed efficiently, consistently meeting quality standards and agreed procedures
Helping you feel good.
We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve 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 what’s important to you.
Nuffield Health Plymouth Hospital.
The Nuffield Health Plymouth Hospital is situated next to the Nuffield Health Devonshire Gym, in Derriford, Plymouth and we have been part of the Plymouth community since 1971. We have 3 main theatres – 2 laminar flow and 1 digital, a fully JAG accredited endoscopy suite, a 35-bedded ward with one 4 bedded bay and one 2 bedded bay. Our outpatients department has 12 consulting rooms with a dedicated ophthalmology suite and ENT service.
Our Diagnostic imaging department responsibilities consists of plain film studies for our inpatients, out patients and external referrals, theatre lists, general and MSK ultrasound clinics and fluoroscopy. We have a mobile CT service several times a month and Mobile MRI service several times a week. This service is currently managed by a third party but as Head of Department you would have overall responsibility for this service. We have three main theatres and a minor ops theatre. Two of the main theatres have laminar flow and the majority of the orthopaedic and spinal surgery is carried out in these. Our outpatients department has 12 consulting rooms.
We carry out treatment under a range of specialities including Orthopaedics, Plastic Surgery and Neurosurgery. We recently were rated in the top 50 hospitals in the country for our total hip replacement patient outcomes.
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