Bank Deputy Facilities Service Manager | Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Are you interested in a role that combines leadership and service improvement within a healthcare environment? We are looking for an Deputy Facilities Services Manager to lead and manage cleaning and catering services, ensuring high-quality delivery across the Trust.
In this role, you’ll work closely with the Facilities Services Manager to monitor and improve housekeeping and patient catering contracts, collaborate with clinical teams to enhance the patient environment, and coordinate key initiatives like the Trust’s Our Place programme.You'll also manage the relationship with food service providers, ensure compliance with contracts, and oversee the kitchen asset replacement program.
If you're passionate about improving services and patient care, this could be the ideal role for you!
Interviews will be held on 10/01/2025
Working closely with the Facilities Services Manager, you will have day to day responsibility for leading and managing a range of cleaning and catering services and projects within Facilities services.
Working with the quality monitoring team you will be responsible for ensuring a comprehensive monitoring system is in place to support the delivery of the combined housekeeping & patient catering contract.
Attending the monthly performance meeting with contracted providers, you will support compliance monitoring against contract standards.
Driving and coordinating the Trust’s Our Place programme you will have an inclusive approach to improve the environment and services for our patients and staff bringing together a multi-disciplinary team to assess improvement requirements in the overall patient environment.
You will be required to liaise with and influence senior clinical staff for the betterment of the patient environment and patient food service delivery.
Working with a range of stakeholders, you will be required to understand complex contracting information, articulating the parameters and expectations of each service contract within the portfolio. This is required to ensure contracts are delivered in line with expectation; constantly seeking to improve the quality outcomes.
To support the provision of a high quality food service by being the responsible and accountable person for ensuring oversight between the Trust and the sub-contracted food service providers.
Our Trust
Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people – patients, staff and partners.Recognised as providing ‘outstanding’ care to our patients and rated ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH’s values – Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent – are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave.
The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.
CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential.We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people’s age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
As per Home Office guidelines, please be aware that, unfortunately, the Trust is unable to offer sponsorship for this particular position.
This Vacancy will close on 05-January-2025.
Interviews are due to be held on the 10-January-2024.
Benefits to you
At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site.Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.
On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge.Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.
CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
This advert closes on Sunday 5 Jan 2025