Domestic Supervisor
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working
- Hours / week
- 20
- 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.
“PLEASE NOTE THIS ROLE IS NOT ELIGIBLE FOR SPONSORSHIP.”Quoted verbatim from the source advert
Role summary
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting for three Domestic Supervisors at Royal Albert Edward Hospital. The successful candidates will supervise the Domestic Services team, ensuring daily operations run smoothly and maintaining high standards of cleanliness. This role involves allocating tasks, monitoring performance, providing training support, and managing staff rotas and annual leave. A flexible approach to working hours is required.
Essential criteria
- Able to work unsociable hours.
- Speak English to an appropriate standard relevant to their role, i.e. with confidence and accuracy, using correct sentence structures and vocabulary, and without hesitation
- Flexibility to provide cover for colleagues.
- The ability to work flexibly in accordance with service needs.
- Full knowledge of domestic cleaning protocols
- Knowledge of hygiene, health & safety, COSHH regulations
- Knowledge of staff supervision
- Understanding of rota management and annual leave
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the Hospital site and departments within it
- Knowledge of Trust policies
- Safe operation and use of a variety of cleaning equipment
- Key board skills
- To be able to use IT packages including Teams, Outlook, Excel and Word
- Fully trained to National Cleaning Standards
- Conversant with protocols in relation to infection control
- Previous cleaning/domestic expereince
- Previous supervisory experience
- Bioquell Q10 - HPV
- Decontamination Trained
- C.I.L.B City and Guilds N.V.Q Level 1&2 or equivalent qualification
- Ability to demonstrate supervisory experience in a Domestic or equivalent role.
- Health & Safety qualification Team Leader/Supervisory qualification or equivalent
- Additional
- Able to work unsociable hours.
- Speak English to an appropriate standard relevant to their role, i.e. with confidence and accuracy, using correct sentence structures and vocabulary, and without hesitation
- Flexibility to provide cover for colleagues.
- The ability to work flexibly in accordance with service needs.
- Full knowledge of domestic cleaning protocols
- Knowledge of hygiene, health & safety, COSHH regulations
- Knowledge of staff supervision
- Understanding of rota management and annual leave
- Knowledge of the Hospital site and departments within it
- Knowledge of Trust policies
- Safe operation and use of a variety of cleaning equipment
- Key board skills
- To be able to use IT packages including Teams, Outlook, Excel and Word
- Fully trained to National Cleaning Standards
- Conversant with protocols in relation to infection control
- Previous cleaning/domestic expereince
- Previous supervisory experience
- Bioquell Q10 - HPV
- Decontamination Trained
- C.I.L.B City and Guilds N.V.Q Level 1&2 or equivalent qualification
- Ability to demonstrate supervisory experience in a Domestic or equivalent role.
- Health & Safety qualification Team Leader/Supervisory qualification or equivalent
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.
Posted 1d ago · Closes in 14d
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Wrightington Wigan & Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Domestic Supervisor
The closing date is 21 September 2026
Job summary
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust are currently recruiting for 3 Domestic Supervisors within our Domestic team at Royal Albert Edward Hospital.
All 3 posts will be working 20 hours per week , flexible shifts, over 7 days
Post 1 - Flexible hours, over 7 days
Post 2 - Monday to Friday (08:30 - 12:30)
Post 3 - Monday to Friday (16:00 - 20:00)
Please indicate on your application form which post you are applying for.
The post holder should have a flexible approach to working hours and be able to cover a variety of shift patterns as the service requires.
Please be advised, applications are scored against the person specification, detailed in the job advert.
Candidates with highest scores will be invited to the interviews.
Please read the person specification and in your application (Supporting information section) please describe how do you meet these criteria for the role.
Please note this vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if a sufficient number of suitable applications are received.
PLEASE NOTE THIS ROLE IS NOT ELIGIBLE FOR SPONSORSHIP.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be responsible for the daily supervision of the Domestic Services, com
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