About this role
Job summary
Ready to step up into leadership and make a real impact?
If you have a solid background in cleaning, domestic services, or catering, Leominster Community Hospital wants you. We are looking for a resilient, proactive, hands-on Assistant Site Supervisor to help drive our Soft Services team forward.
This fast-paced Band 3 role balances operational tasks with leadership. Working side-by-side with frontline Band 2 teams, you will support our Band 4 Site Supervisor to manage a busy 7-day service.
Why join us?
o Higher Pay: Band 3 base salary plus NHS weekend enhancements.o Great
Benefits
NHS Pension Scheme, generous annual leave, and Blue Light discounts.o Progression: Gain hands-on experience managing teams, solving problems, and running shifts.o Support: Partner with a Band 4 Supervisor to handle daily staffing challenges.o Balanced Hours: 5.5-hour shifts keep you visible on the floor during key service windows.
Main duties of the job
What you'll actually be doing
- On-the-Job Supervision: Spend your shift leading by example--working alongside the team to deliver gold-standard cleanliness and catering services while keeping standards high.
- Team Leadership: Manage, motivate, and guide our frontline Band 2 Domestic and Catering staff, addressing daily operational challenges head-on.
- Operational Support: Partner closely with the Band 4 Site Supervisor to handle rotas, quality audits, stock control, and staff training.
Who we need
- An Experienced Professional: Someone with a proven background in domestic cleaning or catering who understands how a professional kitchen or cleaning operation works.
- A Resilient Leader: Someone who isn't afraid of a challenge, can manage staff fairly, and handles a busy environment with a calm, practical approach.
- A Team Player: A reliable partner who our Band 4 Supervisor can trust to keep things running perfectly when they aren't on the floor.
- Flexibility: The commitment to work a varied, flexible rota across 7 days to support our hospital service.
About us
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South WarwickshireUniversity NHS FT, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute NHS Hospitals Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care wed want for our family and friends.
More than 3,000 people work for the Trust they tell us its a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."
Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more information about the role and responsibilities please see the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to GCSE level or equivalent
- NVQ 3 / Diploma (or relevant appropriate experience)
- CEBOSH / NEBOSH certificate (willing to complete or appropriate 'on the job' experience)
Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
Essential
- Strong time management and organisational skills
- Effective Communication Skills - verbal and written
- Computer literate
- Methodical and organised approach and organisational skills
- Knowledge of estate and procurement systems
- Ability to analyse service problems and identify a range of possible solutions
Experience
Essential
- Experience in similar role within NHS
- Basic understanding of Health & Safety requirements
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.
Employer details
Employer name
Wye Valley NHS Trust
Address
Monkmoor Court
31-34 Commercial Road
Hereford
HR1 2BG
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.wyevalley.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)