Community Facilities Supervisor - Newport Clinics
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 10/09/2026
- Closes
- 17/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This role is for a Facilities Supervisor to lead a team providing essential support services across Newport Clinics. You will oversee cleaning, catering, and portering, ensuring high standards of safety, cleanliness, and compliance with NHS Wales policies. The position involves staff supervision, training, and performance management to deliver effective facilities services in community healthcare settings. The working hours are 13:30 - 20:00 Monday to Friday.
Key responsibilities
- Supervise and support facilities staff across community healthcare locations.
- Monitor service quality and ensure standards are consistently achieved.
- Conduct regular site visits and work closely with clinical teams.
- Promote a culture of safety, quality and excellent customer service.
- Manage staff performance, attendance, training and development.
- Ensure compliance with Health & Safety, COSHH, Food Hygiene and Infection Prevention requirements.
Essential criteria
- NVQ Level 3 supervisory qualification or equivalent demonstrable knowledge and experience
- Food Hygiene & Safety Level 2
- Basic Health & Safety Certificate
- Knowledge of full range of work procedures, practices, and equipment for cleaning, catering and portering services
- Knowledge of COSHH regulations
- Knowledge of Health & Safety, HACCP policy and procedures
- Customer service
- Manual Handling Certificate
- Relevant experience in the cleaning and catering industry
- Willingness to train for job development
- Ability to motivate and develop staff
- Ability to meet unplanned work deadlines or demands
- Experience of training staff in routine tasks
- Ability to work effectively with both management and other supervisors with a positive attitude and willingness to take responsibly
- Knowledge of working in multi-disciplinary environments
- Proficient IT skills
- Able to work under pressure and to deadlines
- Flexible approach to working
- Commitment to personal development
- Ability to motivate self, staff and teams
- Ability to lead by example
- Excellent communication skills (written, verbal and electronically)
- Ability to engage positively, sensitively and diplomatic with staff & customers
- Follow & implement standard procedures
- Issue work instructions to staff
- Ability to prioritise own tasks and that of the team
- Self-motivated
- Have a flexible approach to changes in workload/duties/priorities
- Promote the Facilities Services
- Ability to travel between sites as requested, in a timely manner
- Able to work to a high standard
- Act in a polite & respectful manner
- Aware of security and confidentiality
- Lone working may be a requisite of this role
Desirable criteria
- NVQ level 2 in Cleaning or Catering Services
- Certificate in Health & Safety
- ECDL IT Qualification
- Food Hygiene & Safety Level 3
- Food Allergen Awareness
- Awareness of NHS cleaning techniques as per National Cleaning Standards for NHS Wales
- Awareness of All Wales Nutrition and Catering Standards for Food and Fluid provision for Hospital Inpatients
- Assessing and undertaking risk assessment
- Previous experience of supervising staff
- Experience of undertaking audits
- Knowledge of medical gases
- Knowledge of waste disposal
- Previous experience within a healthcare environment
- Welsh Language Skills are desirable levels 1 to 5 in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing in Welsh
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 3 at £24,625 – £25,674 a year, across England.
This advert: £26,813 – £27,890 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
Community Facilities Supervisor - [contact details removed]
The closing date is 17 September 2026
Job summary
Are you a motivated and experienced supervisor with a passion for delivering high-quality support services? Do you enjoy leading teams, maintaining high standards, and making a real difference to patient care? If so, we would love to hear from you.
We are seeking a Facilities Supervisor to join our Facilities Team supervising our Newport Clinics. This is an exciting opportunity to support the delivery of vital facilities services across community healthcare settings, ensuring patients, staff and visitors benefit from safe, clean and welcoming environments.
The working hours are 13:30 - 20:00 Monday to Friday.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Main duties of the job
As a Facilities Supervisor, you will lead and support a team of facilities staff, ensuring services are delivered effectively and safely across a range of community sites. You will oversee day-to-day facilities operations, including cleaning, catering, portering and other support services, ensuring compliance with NHS Wales standards and Health Board policies. Working closely with clinical and operational colleagues, you will help maintain high standards of cleanlin
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