Domestic Services Manager

This is an exciting opportunity to join North Manchester General Hospital's growing Estates and Facilities team as manager of the Domestic Department.

North Manchester General Hospital is part of Manchester Foundation Trust and the Facilities staff employed provide an integral service to the smooth running of the hospital. We are looking for someone to help us to continue to deliver excellent support services to the hospital.

The post holder will be responsible for providing timely, efficient, and effective operational management ensuring that the Domestic service is responsive, service user focused and provided to the highest possible standard. The post holder will identify changing demand on the services, developing and implementing plans to meet them, and supporting change management processes in conjunction with senior colleagues.

The post holder will need to manage staff effectively and ensure efficient working practices and standards are in place, standard operating procedures are followed, and national cleaning standards and local targets are met and exceeded. The post holder will ensure that services comply with CQC, national guidance and legislation, and Trust polices, providing an effective, quality and efficient service.

KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Manage the development and delivery of cost effective and efficient domestic services across the Trust.
2. Responsible for delivering best practice and value for money in the Domestic Services Department for the Trust.
3. Ensure that Domestic Services conform to the National Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness 2021 and monitoring bodies such as PLACE (Patient Led Assessment of the Care Environment).
4. Give specialist advice on methods of cleaning regarding changes in legislation, statutory regulations, working practices and infection control.
5. Effectively manage, develop and support a team of Deputy Managers, Supervisors and Domestic staff.

MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.5bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the ‘NHS England’ website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team atresourcing@mft.nhs.uk.

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!