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Domestic Team Leader
| Posting date: | 19 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £31,944.00 to £34,937.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £31944.00 - £34937.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 July 2025 |
| Location: | London, N19 5NF |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9220-25-0404 |
Summary
Allocate cleaning staff on a daily basis, ensuring that all areas of the hospital are cleaned, in line with functional risk levels for each area. Prioritise cleaning in the event of staff shortages, minimising risk and ensuring shortages do not adversely affect any one area Visit staff in their work area, ensuring that cleaning staff are supported in their role and ensuring compliance with required cleaning schedules and cleaning methods Ensure assurance documentation is completed by domestics on wards and departments immediately following completion of assurance checks. Assurance documentation includes food safety and cleaning frequency On receipt of cleanliness audit results, issue domestics with failures list if applicable, and ensure rectifications are completed within the required timescale for the functional risk level Complete competency checks, ensuring cleaning staff are competent to clean to the required standard, using agreed cleaning methods. Competency checks are to be completed at least annually for each domestic and documented. Provide refresher trainer as required to ensure staff are competent to clean to the required standard Ensure all cleaning staff adheres to the departmental cleaning policies and procedures Ensure that cleaning staff use safe working practices i.e. meet COSHH regulations, wear PPE, and meet manual handling regulations Monitor the performance of cleaning staff and address minor performance issues in line with Trust policies. Bring repeated or more serious performance issues to the attention of the Domestic Manager Support as require with annual appraisals, reviewing performance including the outcome of their competency check, agree objectives and personal development plans Complete local induction and initial training for new starters within the department as and when required Complete return to work interviews for all domestics returning from periods of sickness absence, ensuring that reason for the sickness is accurately recorded, whether any support is required to enable the member of staff to return to work safely or reduce potential future sickness episodes and discuss patterns or trends in sickness absence Ensure reasons for sickness are recorded, and records are kept accurate Liaise with the Clinical teams and Infection Prevention and Control team as necessary Supervise contract domestics when engaged by the Trust to assist with cleaning duties to ensure they meet required standards Reporting equipment and maintenance requirements on the Facilities helpdesk system and follow up requests to conclusion Actively participate in cleaning department meetings, ensuring that all action points are dealt with in an appropriate and timely manner To contribute to service developments and to promote the cleaning functions to enhance the profile of the cleaning team Completion of Datix reports for accidents and incidents within the department Assist with cleans as and when required to meet the demands of the hospital Assist when required with stock taking and ordering consumables and disposables for the department