Band 6 Deputy Facilities Manager Cleanliness and Housekeeping

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT

Job summary

As Deputy Facilities Manager, you will provide operational and strategic leadership for housekeeping and domestic services, ensuring compliance with national healthcare cleanliness standards, infection prevention requirements and Trust policies. You will oversee the delivery of cleaning services across BCHC-owned sites, managing performance, workforce development and service improvement initiatives.

We Welcome Applications From

Candidates who are passionate about maintaining high standards, developing people, driving operational excellence and creating safe, clean healthcare environments that support outstanding patient care. We are looking for a confident and experienced leader who can inspire teams, drive high standards and deliver service improvements within a complex healthcare environment

Main duties of the job

  • Lead and manage in-house housekeeping and domestic teams across multiple locations
  • Manage delegated budgets of approximately £2.5 million, ensuring value for money and delivery of cost improvement plans.
  • Act as the Trust’s cleanliness lead during external inspections and assessments, including CQC and PLACE reviews.
  • Ensure compliance with the National Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness and infection prevention requirements
  • Develop and maintain rapid response cleaning services to support infection outbreaks and major incidents.
  • Support workforce development, succession planning and training programmes across housekeeping and domestic services.
  • Build strong relationships with clinical, operational and corporate colleagues to continuously improve service quality

Person Specification

Essential

Essential

  • Degree or equivalent
  • Level 4 Food Hygiene and Safety or equivalent
  • Significant experience in managing staff, budgets and strategy in a management post.

Desirable

Desirable

  • NHS

Essential

Essential

  • Credibility, professional manner and approach
  • Positive, optimistic attitude Can do approach
  • Competent working under pressure and demonstrable experience of meeting deadlines.
  • Ability to motivate and influence staff.
  • Develop and coach staff members and assist with the development of other managers

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 23 July 2026

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