Head Housekeeper - Didcot Community Hospital

Job overview

We are recruiting for a Head Housekeeper to join our team at the Didcot Community Hospital to manage porters and cleaners in order to ensure that all service standards are met and maintained.

The housekeeping team works closely with nursing staff to ensure a clean and safe environment for our patients as well as overseeing catering provisions. The role is full time (37.5 hours per week) and will involve shift work (7am – 3pm and 11am-7pm), weekends and bank holidays over a rolling rota, which will be paid at an enhanced rate.

If you're a strong team player with previous experience in housekeeping, customer service and rota management we would love to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

• Directly manage porters and cleaners and ensure that all service standards are met and maintained
• Carry out a localised induction with all new staff members managed by post holder
• Conduct annual appraisals and monthly supervisions for managed staff
• Be responsible for authorising annual leave and recording and managing sickness levels
• Ensure that all staff mandatory and task specific training is completed in liaison with Facilities co-ordinator.
• Support line manager with rotas and cleaning schedules
• Ensure that staffing levels are maintained to adequately meet the service requirements; to highlight any issues immediately to line manager
• Managing stock levels for cleaning consumables, linen and food stock levels and highlighting shortages to line manager to order

Please refer to the job description attached for a comprehensive list of duties

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

At Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust we want to employ people not just with experience, but with the aptitude and motivation to succeed and whose values resonate with our own.

Therefore, if you don’t meet all the requirements of the role and are unsure about applying but are excited about the opportunity, please do get in touch. We will be happy to discuss the requirements in more detail ahead of making a written application.