Domestic Team Leader

Job Description:

Domestic Team Leader

 
Uppingham School, founded in 1584, is a leading co-educational independent boarding school. Its 875 pupils, aged 13-18, are accommodated in 15 boarding houses, taught by over 20 academic departments, and participate in numerous extra-curricular activities such as sports, music, and drama. The academic programme is supported by business units responsible for marketing, estates, finance, human resources, IT, catering, cleaning, health and safety, and enterprise/ conferencing. The School employs almost 600 staff and operates seven days a week across the year.
 
Job purpose
 
To lead a team of Domestic Cleaners to provide a home from home for pupils by cleaning the houses and central buildings to the highest of standards, and in houses by serving meals and undertaking laundry.

Responsibilities
 
To work under the direction and guidance of an Assistant Cleaning Manager to carry out the following tasks:

• Be courteous to colleagues and pupils and provide a welcoming environment to parents, contractors, conference delegates, and other visitors.
• Work independently to complete the daily/weekly tasks assigned by your line manager to a high standard.
• Organise cleaning schedules of work areas for cleaning staff to accomplish high standards. To amend schedules of work as required, including for periods of staff absence, preparing for the start or end of terms or visiting parents.
• Provide induction training for new staff members, continue coaching, mentoring, and motivating staff members to ensure their performance is maintained at a high standard.
• Undertake checks of cleaning standards in work areas of the house, providing feedback to individual staff members, and escalating to your relevant line manager where required.
• Monitor and control cleaning product stock.
• Lead on laundry within agreed timescale from the Matron and Houseparent.
• Report equipment faults and act appropriately to ensure faulty equipment is not used until repaired or replaced.
• To report staff absence accordingly and undertake return to work interviews.
• Liaise daily with Matron and staff in order to identify and respond pro-actively to changing house needs.
• Support and organise domestic staff during lunch service.
• Comply fully with Health & Safety and Hygiene regulations and Infection Control guidelines, best practice, regulations, and the School Health & Safety Policies and guidance, including:
• Attend professional training as required. As well as keeping up to date with online training.
 
Qualifications, skills and experience, personal qualities required
 
Skills and Experience
 
• Previous supervisory experience
• Previous cleaning experience
• Knowledge of cleaning procedures
• Effective communication skills
• Reasonable numeracy and literacy
• Ability to organise workload and balance priorities to meet deadlines
• Excellent attention to detail
• Knowledge of health & safety requirements (desirable)
• An understanding of COSHH (desirable)
• Previous experience of using industrial cleaning equipment (desirable)

Location: Uppingham
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 32.5 hours per week, 52 weeks per year.
In addition, house staff are required to work additional hours at school events throughout the year.
Salary: £22,567.56 per annum
 
Holiday: The annual holiday entitlement is all Uppingham School holidays apart from the 4 weeks and clean down hours specified above. Public holidays in term time are normal working days.
 
Benefits
 
• 50% Contribution towards premiums for the School’s private health scheme
• Discount on School fees
• Discount at a local nursery in Uppingham
• 25% Discount on holiday club fees
• Westfield healthcare
• Westfield Rewards which gives discounts at various retailers, gyms, and restaurants
• Contributory pension scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• In house Occupational Health Service
• Membership to dual-use Sports Centre (with a £25 annual joining fee)
• Free staff lunches during term-time
• Free annual Flu vaccinations
• Complimentary staff ticket for select School performances
• Cycle to Work scheme
 
You may also have experience on the following: Team leader, Cleaning Supervisor, School Cleaner, Cleaner, Cleaning Operative, Cleaning Assistant, Equipment Cleaner, Equipment Cleaning, Commercial Cleaner, Commercial Cleaning, Cleaning Supervisor, Facilities Management, FM, Soft Services, etc.
 
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