# Patient Environment Services Supervisor - Furness General Hospital > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/patient-environment-services-supervisor-furness-general-hospital/0ca53e9c-42c2-48c2-8827-acd4f8648fa6 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/patient-environment-services-supervisor-furness-general-hospital/0ca53e9c-42c2-48c2-8827-acd4f8648fa6.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust - **Location:** Furness General Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Administrative and IT - **Grade:** Band 3 - **Salary:** £25,760 - £27,476 pro rata per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time - 30 hours per week (various hours over 7 days, 3 week rota.) - **Closing date:** 2026-09-09T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-26T07:50:39.665Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Cumbria/BarrowInFurness/East_Lancashire_Hospitals_NHS_Trust/Estates_Facilities/Estates_Facilities-v8254976 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8254976?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.elht.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The post holder will supervise a team of staff in providing a quality and efficient comprehensive portering, domestic cleaning and site services at our Furness General Hospital site in line with the National Cleaning Standards, department Standing Operational Procedures and Trust Policies. To ensure a high standard of Patient Environmental Site services are delivered across a range of facilities services. To provide excellent customer service to our patients, colleagues and members of the public at all times. Communicate effectively and in a timely manner with a range of hospital staff, the public, patients and colleagues across the Trust. This position is part time and includes shifts including weekends. ### Main duties of the job Providing supervision, support, training and development to Patient Environment Service Assistants. Carry out administration duties in line with the job role, departmental procedures and Trust policies. Carry out own team appraisals and return to work sickness meetings and review meetings as required. Prioritise work load and location of staff in order to provide a quality and efficient service. Arrangement of duty rotas to suit the needs of the service, planning and allocating holiday requests. Covering sickness and working within financial constraints of the department set by management following approval and under the guidance of line management. Ensuring correct usage of approved cleaning materials to the manufacturer’s specification and COSSH data sheets. To review, audit and ensure that work is carried out by the service staff in accordance with work schedules, in line with the national cleanliness standard and Trust operational policies. Full Details On The Job Description Attached ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay visiting our website https://www.uhmb.nhs.uk/ ### Applicant requirements This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Demonstrate a period of leading a team within a busy Environment. Team Working. - Relevant Supervisory Experience - Experience working with computers IT based systems **Desirable** - Knowledge of Cleaning in a large setting or health care establishment - Knowledge of acute hospital environment - Knowledge of customer care - Knowledge of medical gas handling ### Personal Qualities **Essential** - Ability to travel between the Trust sites as required. - To demonstrate flexibility in approach to work patterns **Desirable** - Deal with day to day work loads ### Education and Qualification **Essential** - Relevant related NVQ 2 or equivalent experience or (British Institute Cleaning Science) BICS qualification in cleaning sciences **Desirable** - Certificate in COSHH - Award in Risk Assessment - Gas safety awareness certificate - Certificate in Health and Safety ### Skills, Ability and Knowledge **Essential** - Ability to deal with information sensitively and confidentially - Deal with a diverse range of people face to face - Able to demonstrate leadership skills - Ability to deal with internal and external communication using both verbal and written material - Team Building skills - Able to demonstrate problem solving methods - Able to demonstrate and address manual handling assessments **Desirable** - Able to assess and communicate risks within their area of responsibility - Able to communicate within a team and provide diverse feedback to colleagues and line managers ## Documents - [jd sup (pdf, 280.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10568001) - [ps sup (pdf, 112.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10568002) - [privacy notice (pdf, 305.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1761) - [benefits of working at elht (pdf, 1.2mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2405) - [additional candidate information 2024 (pdf, 408.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2494) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.