Band 6 Deputy Facilities Manager Cleanliness and Housekeeping
- NHS
- Full Time
- Birmingham
- 39959.00 - 48117.00 a year
Job Description
Job summary
As Deputy Facilities Manager, you will provide operational and strategic leadership for housekeeping and domestic services, ensuring compliance with national healthcare cleanliness standards, infection prevention requirements and Trust policies. You will oversee the delivery of cleaning services across BCHC-owned sites, managing performance, workforce development and service improvement initiatives.
We Welcome Applications From
Candidates who are passionate about maintaining high standards, developing people, driving operational excellence and creating safe, clean healthcare environments that support outstanding patient care. We are looking for a confident and experienced leader who can inspire teams, drive high standards and deliver service improvements within a complex healthcare environment
Main duties of the job
- Lead and manage in-house housekeeping and domestic teams across multiple locations
- Manage delegated budgets of approximately £2.5 million, ensuring value for money and delivery of cost improvement plans.
- Act as the Trust's cleanliness lead during external inspections and assessments, including CQC and PLACE reviews.
- Ensure compliance with the National Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness and infection prevention requirements
- Develop and maintain rapid response cleaning services to support infection outbreaks and major incidents.
- Support workforce development, succession planning and training programmes across housekeeping and domestic services.
- Build strong relationships with clinical, operational and corporate colleagues to continuously improve service quality
About us
Are you an experienced facilities professional with a passion for delivering outstanding healthcare environments? Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a motivated and dynamic Deputy Facilities Manager for Cleanliness and Housekeeping to lead our in-house domestic and housekeeping services across multiple Trust sites.
This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in ensuring our patients, staff and visitors benefit from safe, clean and welcoming environments while supporting the delivery of high-quality healthcare services across the Trust.
At BCHC, we are committed to delivering excellent patient care supported by high-quality services and facilities. You will join a supportive organisation that values innovation, staff development, inclusion and continuous improvement.
This role offers the opportunity to influence service delivery across the Trust, work alongside senior leaders and make a real difference to patients' experiences every
Job responsibilities
- Degree-level qualification or equivalent experience.
- Level 4 Food Hygiene and Safety qualification or equivalent.
- Significant management experience, including responsibility for staff, budgets and strategic service delivery.
- Experience managing cleaning services across multiple sites.
- Experience developing and modernising services and workforces.
- Strong understanding of NHS housekeeping and domestic service standards and regulations
- In-depth knowledge of the National Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness and healthcare food and drink standards.
- Excellent communication, leadership and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong IT skills, including Microsoft Office applications.
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- Degree or equivalent
- Level 4 Food Hygiene and Safety or equivalent
- Significant experience in managing staff, budgets and strategy in a management post.
Desirable
Desirable
- NHS
Essential
Essential
- Credibility, professional manner and approach
- Positive, optimistic attitude Can do approach
- Competent working under pressure and demonstrable experience of meeting deadlines.
- Ability to motivate and influence staff.
- Develop and coach staff members and assist with the development of other managers
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Employer details
Employer name
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT
Address
Moseley Hall Hospital
Alcester Road
Birmingham
B13 8JL
United Kingdom
