# Cleaning Supervisor **Company**: Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust **Location**: Carshalton **Work arrangement**: onsite **Job type**: part-time **Salary**: £15.66 to £16.54 an hour **Category**: Facilities & Maintenance **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9343-26-0854?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_4818cfa4-b0b ## Description To provide effective day-to-day supervision of the cleaning service, ensuring that a safe, high-quality and responsive service is consistently delivered across the organisation's community premises. The postholder will lead, support and motivate cleaning staff, coordinate daily workloads and monitor standards to ensure compliance with the National Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness, infection prevention and control requirements, Trust procedures and health and safety legislation. The role is a vital part of maintaining a safe healthcare environment for patients, visitors and colleagues. The postholder will act as a key point of contact for cleaning staff, clinical colleagues and service users, responding professionally to operational issues and ensuring appropriate action is taken. **Main duties of the job:** - Provide visible day-to-day leadership and supervision to cleaning staff across designated areas. - Allocate daily duties and ensure cleaning schedules are completed within the required timescales and to the expected standard. - Monitor staffing levels and work closely with the eRoster Coordinator and management team to ensure annual leave, sickness absence and other staffing gaps are covered effectively. - Monitor standards of cleanliness through regular inspections and audits, addressing failures promptly and recording all actions taken. - Ensure staff understand their designated areas, cleaning responsibilities, frequencies, risk categories and the time allocated to complete their duties. - Conduct staff briefings, toolbox talks, competency checks and other required supervisory activities. - Maintain accurate records relating to cleaning schedules, audits, training, competencies, attendance, staffing and completed actions. - Communicate effectively with clinical teams, department managers, patients, visitors and colleagues, responding professionally to concerns and service requests. - Ensure cleaning products are used safely and correctly, in accordance with manufacturer instructions, COSHH assessments and the training provided. - Monitor the condition and cleanliness of equipment, ensuring it is maintained in safe working order. **Benefits:** - Competitive salary: £15.66 to £16.54 per hour - Permanent part-time contract **Requirements:** - Basic understanding or a willingness to complete appropriate qualification and training which includes: knowledge of cleaning procedures, COSHH Procedures, Infection and Prevention Control - BICSc Qualification / NVQ Level 2 or equivalent (desirable) - Good basic education which includes reading and writing and basic numeric skills - Able to read, write and converse in English - Proven supervisory skills - Experience of working in cleaning industry (desirable) - Experience of managing sickness absence, conducting staff appraisals and performance management (desirable) ## Skills ### Required - cleaning procedures - COSHH Procedures - Infection and Prevention Control - leadership - communication - record-keeping ### Nice to have - BICSc Qualification - NVQ Level 2 - experience of working in cleaning industry - managing sickness absence - conducting staff appraisals - performance management --- Source: [Apply at jobs.nhs.uk](https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9343-26-0854?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)