Housekeeping Team Manager | University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 27 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £27,485 - £30,162 pa/pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 September 2025 |
| Location: | Bournemouth, BH7 7DW |
| Company: | Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7404452/153-CO04979 |
Summary
We are looking for Housekeeping Team Managers to join #TeamUHD
Our team of Housekeeping Managers work as a team to support the Housekeeping Service across the Royal Bournemouth Hospital site. This is an exciting time at RBH with our maternity services having just moved onto the site in our new BEACH building with further changes to come as we become the major emergency hospital for East Dorset.
Our Housekeeping team ensure that the hospital is kept clean providing a safe and pleasant environment to our patients, visitors and staff. Our Housekeeping Team Managers each have a specialist area they are responsible for (quality, recruitment and training, equipment and consumable, rostering and waste) and act as ‘duty manager’ to ensure the team are allocated to the most appropriate locations to provide a safe and effective service.
Full training for the role is provided, with specific training for the specialist area. Leadership and management courses are also available.
We are a large team and experience in managing or supervising a large team would be an advantage.
What we can offer you in return:
· Enhanced annual leave (pro-rata for part-time)
· Generous NHS pension scheme
· NHS discounts at thousands of retailers
· Working with a friendly, inclusive team
Kindly note that, previous applicants won't be able to apply again and UHD won't be providing sponsorship for this vacancy
Base Location: Royal Bournemouth Hospital
Act as 'duty manager' for Housekeeping service on a rota basis ensuring cleaning resources are deployed across the hospital in the most appropriate locations
Manage a team of around 50 Housekeeping Assistants including leading team meetings and absence management
Lead a specialist area within Housekeeping (Quality, Equipment/Consumables, Recruitment and Training, HealthRoster (staffing) or Waste
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.
This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have about this at interview.
Please note if the role or service is relocated as part of a planned move, employees will not be eligible for excess mileage reimbursement. Travel from the postholder's home to the new work base will be considered a normal commute. Any other changes not related to this relocation will be managed according to the relevant Trust or National
terms and conditions
This post is part of the Operational Estates service that UHD may transfer to an NHS ‘wholly owned subsidiary’; the proposed date of transfer is October 2025. This is an exciting opportunity to join a developing, expanding, organisation with a strong commitment to NHS values and putting patients first. The NHS wholly owned subsidiary will continue to offer NHS AFC T&Cs to current employees who transfer in October as well as to new employees recruited after that date.
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert
This advert closes on Thursday 11 Sep 2025
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