Domestic & Laundry Manager | Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 26 March 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £38,682 - £46,580 Per Annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 25 April 2026 |
| Location: | Ashton, OL6 9RW |
| Company: | Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7874700/245-MGRFAC-03-26 |
Summary
Domestic & Laundry Manager
Hours - 37.5
The Domestic Services Manager is responsible for ensuring the cleaning services that cover the Trust site, Community locations and contracted services provide timely, efficient and effective cleaning in line with National Standards of Cleanliness 2021. The post holder will also ensure cleaning and laundry services comply with CQC, national guidance and legislation.
The Domestic Services Manager is required to work closely with other Facilities teams, the wider clinical and non clinical areas and Infection Prevention teams to provide safe, effective and reactive services.
Leadership and Management
To manage the development and delivery of cost effective and efficient Domestic Services within the Hospital and the Community locations.
Ensure that Domestic Services conform to the National Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness and monitoring bodies such as PLACE (Patient Led Assessment of the Care Environment);
Give specialist advice on methods of cleaning regarding changes in legislation, statutory regulations, working practices and infection control.
Effectively manage, develop and support the Deputy Manager, Supervisors and Domestic and laundry staff.
To ensure managers and supervisors are motivated, appropriately trained and developed to deliver a professional approach and empowered with the responsibility of managing their teams.
To ensure responsibilities are well defined for all managed staff.
To ensure that optimum staffing levels across services are always maintained using innovative technology where available to accurately assess capacity and demand for services.
To manage and advise on all staff rotas and annual leave requests, ensuring all absences are recorded.
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust serves a community of 250,000 people across Tameside & Glossop. We provide a range of services both within the hospital and across our community for both adults and children. Our vision is to improve health outcomes for our population and influence wider determinants of health through collaboration with our health & care partners.
We have a clear set of values & behaviours which we expect all of our staff to demonstrate:
• Compassion
• Accountability
• Respect
• Excellence
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian & minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ & Disabled people.
Benefits include; flexible working, 27-33 days annual leave plus bank holidays, sick pay, NHS Pension Scheme, free eye tests and health checks, gym discount, free bicycle loan scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, support with stress, bereavement, relationships, finance, and much more.
The job description gives an overview of the main tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specifications focusses on the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. These documents are attached on the page and can be downloaded.
The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
This advert closes on Monday 6 Apr 2026
Hours - 37.5
The Domestic Services Manager is responsible for ensuring the cleaning services that cover the Trust site, Community locations and contracted services provide timely, efficient and effective cleaning in line with National Standards of Cleanliness 2021. The post holder will also ensure cleaning and laundry services comply with CQC, national guidance and legislation.
The Domestic Services Manager is required to work closely with other Facilities teams, the wider clinical and non clinical areas and Infection Prevention teams to provide safe, effective and reactive services.
Leadership and Management
To manage the development and delivery of cost effective and efficient Domestic Services within the Hospital and the Community locations.
Ensure that Domestic Services conform to the National Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness and monitoring bodies such as PLACE (Patient Led Assessment of the Care Environment);
Give specialist advice on methods of cleaning regarding changes in legislation, statutory regulations, working practices and infection control.
Effectively manage, develop and support the Deputy Manager, Supervisors and Domestic and laundry staff.
To ensure managers and supervisors are motivated, appropriately trained and developed to deliver a professional approach and empowered with the responsibility of managing their teams.
To ensure responsibilities are well defined for all managed staff.
To ensure that optimum staffing levels across services are always maintained using innovative technology where available to accurately assess capacity and demand for services.
To manage and advise on all staff rotas and annual leave requests, ensuring all absences are recorded.
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust serves a community of 250,000 people across Tameside & Glossop. We provide a range of services both within the hospital and across our community for both adults and children. Our vision is to improve health outcomes for our population and influence wider determinants of health through collaboration with our health & care partners.
We have a clear set of values & behaviours which we expect all of our staff to demonstrate:
• Compassion
• Accountability
• Respect
• Excellence
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian & minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ & Disabled people.
Benefits include; flexible working, 27-33 days annual leave plus bank holidays, sick pay, NHS Pension Scheme, free eye tests and health checks, gym discount, free bicycle loan scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, support with stress, bereavement, relationships, finance, and much more.
The job description gives an overview of the main tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specifications focusses on the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. These documents are attached on the page and can be downloaded.
The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
This advert closes on Monday 6 Apr 2026