Using the opportunity to link up with different colleagues, leaders and partners, building relationships that can help everyone t.....
Using the opportunity to link up with different colleagues, leaders and partners, building relationships that can help everyone to deliver effective and efficient service. Engage with your team - respecting every member of staff, valuing their diversity and making sure that every member of your team feels that their contribution is appreciated and valued. Hold yourself and others to account - be clear about whats expected at work, giving honest feedback and acting quickly and fairly to support others who are struggling to meet expectations. Role model your own development and encourage personal development amongst your team to help to ensure our workforce has the skills and knowledge that will improve services for the future. By acting as an ambassador for GMS, sharing good news and good practice with your team, contributing to debates, having a say and leading improvement all ways of influencing what happens to our services in the future. POLICY AND SERVICE RESPONSIBILITIES - Deliver a cleaning and housekeeping service that meets with local and national cleaning standards providing assurance through accurate auditing and monitoring, assist in preparing reports for the ADOF. - Develop the cleaning and housekeeping service to ensure compliance against the National Standards of Cleanliness 2021, utilizing skills to create working routines for the team to enable delivery of the NSC 2021 against specification. - Assist in the delivery of the business plan so that that the domestic and housekeeping team delivers high performing and income generating services. - Contribute to the review and development writing and updating policies in own areas of expertise and the wider GMS where appropriate for services e.g. National cleaning standards, terminal cleans, HPV etc. To be responsible for the updating of local and departmental procedure notes. - Deal and respond to customer complaints and concerns as they arise. A face to face response maybe required to deal with a concern and take action accordingly to rectify the concern/complaint. If a formal response is required respond in line with the response target on complaint monitoring. ORGANISATIONAL MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBLITIES - To performance manage domestic and housekeeping service against departmental targets and a range of KPIs, providing first line investigation and resolution of KPI performance issues on behalf of the FM. - Be responsible for weekly/monthly cleanliness audits in line with NHS cleaning standards and ensure any failures are rectified within the agreed timescale, if required action plans are implemented sustain longer term improvements. - Provide a weekly performance report to the FM to assist with the contract management of the service and provide the correct level of management information. - Responsible for the day to day management of staff, including recruitment, personnel record keeping, induction, training and development to ensure that they can perform their duties effectively and safely. Manage staff attendance, grievance, conduct and performance issues in accordance with GMS policies and procedures. - Have responsibility for recruitment and selection of domestic and housekeeping staff. Chair the selection panel, ensuring that appointments are made within GMS policies and procedures. - To be responsible for ensuring adherence to Health & Safety regulations including COSHH, Handling & Moving, Infection Control and Food Hygiene to ensure a safe environment for patients and staff in accordance with Trust policies and procedures. Undertake risk assessments as necessary. - Responsible for ensuring all staff attend mandatory training sessions in accordance with legislation and the GMS policies, including Fire Safety, Health & Safety, Manual Handling and Lifting, to reduce and ensure the health & safety of employees. - Ensure that arrangements within the domestic and housekeeping teams are co-ordinated to ensure staff meetings are supported including arranging dates, preparing agendas, collating supporting papers, inviting other service representatives and preparing accurate notes and action plans. - Working with GMS front line teams and operational colleagues to assist in the development and sustainability of a change in culture that will enable our teams to deliver excellent services and to achieve excellence in service delivery. - Participate fully in appraisal and mandatory/statutory training and ensure that the domestic and housekeeping team are appraised on an annual basis and maintain up-to-date their training records. - Ensure effective site business continuity and effective major incident plans are in place for the site domestic and housekeeping service, communicated out and understood/regularly reviewed. - Be members of, and active participants in national specialist forums and associations. Networking and benchmarking best practices as appropriate. FINANCIAL AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT - To be the site budget holder in respect of appropriate ongoing project responsibilities, when performing against the budget and mobilisation plan. Monitor and analyse pay and non-pay expenditure to ensure effective use of GMS financial resources within the set budgets. Alert line manager of any deviation in expenditure and implement actions to mitigate impact of deteriorating budget. - To have the authority to approve the monthly staff pay role, ensuring that all attendance records are recorded, identify discrepancies and process for payment. - Maintain a set of master rosters and ensure the allocation and recoding of daily hours is up-to-date and completed on time. - Have the delegated responsibility for purchasing equipment and materials for the domestic and housekeeping service and making process payments using the existing on-line systems. Ensuring stock control systems are in place for economical, correct use and distribution of equipment and materials and audit recommendations are implemented. - Provide detailed reports on the performance of pay and non-pay performance and compared against budget for the delivery of identified projects. - Analysis on the Service Delivery Performance when compared to the national required standards , to include audit results and trend analysis of the overall performance of the services. - Assist the facilities managers in the management of contracts, reporting KPI information to support the contract management process. - Assist in the production and presentation of business cases, reports and briefing papers for GMS Senior Management Team meetings and other approval pathways. PLANING AND ORGANISATION - Maintain and effective communication strategy with staff using a variety for tools such as face to face meeting, briefing sessions and presentations, written communication, notice board, blogs - Ensure all staff annual appraisal are planned in for the year and as part of the appraisal process training plans and personal development plans are in place for all direct reports and supervisors are trained to complete domestic and housekeeping staff appraisal in a timely manner. - Take the lead on specific projects and trials of equipment or service change including trials; engage staff and stakeholders in the technical aspects of the project or equipment purchase and have an understanding of any cost variations which could impact on the scheme COMMUNICATION AND WORKING RELATIONSHIPS - Engaging positively and effectively with senior colleagues across the corporate and operational areas of the organisation. - Ensuring an appropriate and effective information flow between the Board, Committees and Groups.Developing and maintaining effective working relationships with all levels of staff across the organisation. - Engaging with the whole workforce on matters relating to Service Delivery taking into consideration complexities of information available, adjusting approach using varied techniques to suit audience to achieve Service outcomes. EFFORT, SKILLS AND WORKING CONDITIONS Physical skills Good keyboard skills are required and excellent IT and digital skills including Microsoft Office Physical effort The post holder may be sat at a computer or in meetings for prolonged periods of time. This is already likely to require frequent travel between sites. Walking the site during assessments, audits and inspections Mental effort Concentration required for writing reports, attending meetings Meeting with staff in HR meetings, Monthly time sheets and budget work Emotional effort Exposure due to staff and stakeholder management. Giving staff bad news in resolving staff issues and managing expectations Working conditions Frequent computer use. The post holder will be based in an office environment however there will be flexibility and travel to meetings across and away from sites. Visiting clinical and non-clinical areas on the site, may come in contact with dirt and grime