Healthcare Cleaning Supervisor
Contract: Healthcare
Location: Coventry, CV2 2DX (University Hospital Coventry)
Hours: 37.5 hours per week on a weekly rotating shift pattern, working 5 days over 7, including every other weekend
Contract Type: Permanent
We are seeking an experienced Healthcare Cleaning Supervisor to oversee cleaning operations within a busy acute hospital environment at Coventry Hospital.
Job Description
This is a hands-on supervisory role, responsible for managing teams, maintaining high standards of cleanliness, and ensuring full compliance with healthcare and Trust requirements.
This position is ideal for an experienced cleaning or domestic supervisor with strong people management skills who is looking to progress their career within healthcare facilities management.
The successful candidate will be happy working on a rotating shift pattern.
Shift Times:
- 07:00-15:00
- 08:00-16:00
- 09:00-17:00
- 10:00-18:00
Key Responsibilities
- Supervise domestic services across 5-6 hospital wards, managing approximately 15 frontline cleaning staff
- Ensure delivery of an effective and efficient cleaning service in line with Trust and departmental standards
- Allocate workloads, manage rotas, and update work schedules to meet service demands
- Carry out quality control audits and inspections in conjunction with ward and departmental managers
- Manage escalations and respond professionally to clinical and non-clinical stakeholders
- Support recruitment, induction, training, appraisals, sickness absence, and performance management
- Identify stock requirements, raise requisitions, and support trials of new cleaning materials and equipment
Professional and Personal Competencies/Qualifications
- Proven supervisory experience within a cleaning or domestic services environment
- Experience within healthcare, education, or similarly regulated environments is desirable
- Strong people management and customer-facing skills
- Basic computer literacy (rotas, audits, and paperwork)
- Good understanding of cleaning standards, compliance, and health & safety requirements
- Professional, approachable, and confident communication style
If you have the experience and qualifications required for this role and want to be part of a dynamic team, we’d love to hear from you!
The Company
ISS is a world-leading workplace and facility management company, connecting people and places to make the world work better. Working with customers day by day, side by side, we understand every aspect of the user experience.
Through a unique combination of intelligent solutions, high standards and people who care, to help our customers achieve their purpose, whether it’s hospitals healing patients, businesses producing the next great innovation, or airports bringing passengers home to their families. ISS is committed to doing business the right way, taking its corporate responsibility very seriously. Our passion is people.
We offer you a challenging and exciting career in an organisation with people at its heart. In ISS, everyone has the opportunity to develop, grow and make a difference. #Becomewhoyouwant, #Bepartofsomethingbigger,
#aplacetobeyou,
#facilitiesmanagement
ISS is proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer.
ISS welcomes all applicants regardless of age, disability, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race (which includes race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin and caste), religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation or educational background.
We are proud to be a Gold Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) award holder and a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, recognising our commitment to supporting veterans, reservists, and military families. Through our Joint Forces Programme, we provide mentoring and support to members of the Armed Forces community and their spouses as they transition into civilian careers.
We are a Disability Confident Committed (Level 2) employer, proudly supporting and promoting inclusive hiring practices in line with the UK government’s Disability Confident scheme.
Our passion for inclusivity and diversity makes ISS a more creative, productive and happy place to work.
If you have any further queries regarding this role, please contact the Resourcing Team by emailing [email protected]
If you are interested in learning about other opportunities at ISS, please join our Talent community by clicking on the following link: TalentPlace
To find out more about what we do - https://www.uk.issworld.com/
Work Location: In person
