Deputy Cleaning Operations Manager

Reporting to our Cleaning Operations Manager, this is 1 of 3 posts providing service cover from 06:00 hours – 18:00 hours, 7 days week.Our Deputy Cleaning Managers support the day-to-day management of c125 WTE Healthcare Cleaning staff and are key posts which are vital to maintaining our Trusts Cleaning and Infection Control policies, ensuring a clean and safe environment for patients, staff and visitors.Key communication and working relationships with Cleaning Operations teams, Workplace Divisional Teams, Staff side Partners, System teams, Site Operations team, Infection Control team, Clinical teams, Clinical Service Leads, Training and Education teams, Trust staff, External Workplace Contractors, members of the public. - Support the delivery of the highest standard of cleaning services to patients, staff and visitors. Play a key role in planning and implementing service improvements to ensure high quality cleaning services are delivered to the NHSNational Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness and to our Trust’s Cleaning and Infection Control policies. Put in place processes for ensuring that our Trust maintains agreed cleaning standards through the development of a skilled team of team leaders and staff to maintain these standards and improve the patient’s experience.As an integrated care organisation, our Trust’s purpose is to provide safe, high-quality health and social care at the right time, in the right place to support the people of Torbay and South Devon to live their lives to the full.The Workplace Teams underpin the provision of clinical services, employing approximately 600 staff, delivering support services across all sites within our Trust.QualificationsWe need all Workplace staff to own and live our organisational values and we not only recruit based on qualifications and experience – we recruit individuals who possess and demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trust’s and the Workplace Teams core values: Working together for people Commitment to quality care Compassion Improving lives Everyone counts Respect and dignityFor further details / informal visits contact: Name: Matt Acton Job title: Senior Facilities Operations Manager Email address: matthew.acton@nhs.net Telephone number: 01803 654350