Band 3 Senior Housekeeper (Supervisor)
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time, Flexible working
- Hours / week
- 22.5
- Posted
- 07/09/2026
- Closes
- 21/09/2026
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 Senior Housekeeper to supervise a high-quality housekeeping service across three hospital sites within Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT. The post involves ensuring the service promotes patient care, integrates with nursing, and adheres to infection prevention and control standards. Key responsibilities include managing specialized cleans, serving meals, and ensuring compliance with relevant policies and legislation. The successful candidate will work 22.5 hours a week on a flexible pattern.
Key responsibilities
- Supervise a high-quality housekeeping service that promotes patient care on hospital sites.
- Ensure the housekeeping service integrates with Nursing in its provision of care, specifically Infection, Prevention and Control.
- Adhere to HACCP, COSHH, and other relevant National and Trust policies and procedures.
- Serve meals and beverages to patients in inpatient areas, including basic preparation.
- Plan, provide, and monitor specialized cleans (deep cleans) of patient and in-patient areas as per Infection Prevention Control Team instructions.
- Handle cash and complete paperwork, adhering to CQC, environmental health, catering, and Trust legislation and standards.
Essential criteria
- Level 2 Food Hygiene
- British Institute of Cleaning Science qualification or equivalent or relevant experience
- Institute of Leadership and Management qualification level 3, NVQ Level 3 in Facilities Management or equivalent
- Relevant experience in supervising facilities services in a healthcare environment
- Experience of developing good relationships with stakeholders
- Experience in the implementation and on-going supervision of facilities related to risk management policies and procedures.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of handling confidential and sensitive information at a site level.
- Skills/knowledge
- Experience of working in a Facilities related service in healthcare
- Ability to deliver to national cleaning specifications
- Excellent communication skills, oral and written.
- Able to deliver training and instruction to staff in best practice and methods of work.
- Reliable, friendly, approachable, flexible and able to motivate and lead by example.
- Performance orientated /customer focused
- Be prepared to deliver staff meetings
- Leadership skills with the ability to motivate others reporting directly to the role.
- To be a good team player and be able to work with managers in the directorate.
- To display a range of qualities that engender a high degree of confidence, trust and credibility from clinical and facilities colleagues.
- Can motivate self and colleagues to think laterally and imaginatively about service development opportunities.
- Excellent organisational Skills.
- Adaptable and resilient having a flexible approach to working within a rapidly changing environment
- Demonstrate empathy towards all client groups.
- Other job requirements
- Able to travel between Trust sites and attend meetings/cover sites at a local level
- Qualifications / training
- Level 2 Food Hygiene
- British Institute of Cleaning Science qualification or equivalent or relevant experience
- Institute of Leadership and Management qualification level 3, NVQ Level 3 in Facilities Management or equivalent
- Relevant experience in supervising facilities services in a healthcare environment
- Experience of developing good relationships with stakeholders
- Experience in the implementation and on-going supervision of facilities related to risk management policies and procedures.
- Experience of handling confidential and sensitive information at a site level.
- Skills/knowledge
- Experience of working in a Facilities related service in healthcare
- Ability to deliver to national cleaning specifications
- Excellent communication skills, oral and written.
- Able to deliver training and instruction to staff in best practice and methods of work.
- Reliable, friendly, approachable, flexible and able to motivate and lead by example.
- Performance orientated /customer focused
- Be prepared to deliver staff meetings
- Leadership skills with the ability to motivate others reporting directly to the role.
- To be a good team player and be able to work with managers in the directorate.
- To display a range of qualities that engender a high degree of confidence, trust and credibility from clinical and facilities colleagues.
- Can motivate self and colleagues to think laterally and imaginatively about service development opportunities.
- Excellent organisational Skills.
- Adaptable and resilient having a flexible approach to working within a rapidly changing environment
- Demonstrate empathy towards all client groups.
- Other job requirements
- Able to travel between Trust sites and attend meetings/cover sites at a local level
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 3 at £24,625 – £25,674 a year, across England.
This advert: £25,760 – £27,476 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT
Band 3 Senior Housekeeper (Supervisor)
The closing date is 21 September 2026
Job summary
This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested ****
This post is 22.5 hours a week, working 3 days out of 7 on a flexible working pattern. There will be a requirement to work flexibly across other trust sites including Moseley Hall Hospital and West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre .
If you were not shortlisted for this vacancy previously, we would advise that you review your application and the Person Specification before resubmitting a further application.
The Senior Housekeeper is responsible for a high quality housekeeping service and ensuring the service promotes patient care on the hospital site. We are looking to appoint one Senior Housekeeper to work within our Facilities team at BCHC Foundation Trust. The vacancy will be based across three Hospital sites West Heath Hospital , west midlands Rehabilitation Centre and Moseley Hall Hospital on a rostered basis .
Main duties of the job
To work within the Trust Facilities Management structure to ensure that the housekeeping service supports its clinical colleagues, ensuring it integrates with Nursing in its provision of care and specifically Infection, Prevention and Control. Key skill
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