Shift Production Manager (Laundry)

Working with the vision of delivering excellence in all we do, the post holder will facilitate the provision of the highest standards of patient care, thus enabling us to achieve the Trust’s ambition to be the best Acute Teaching Hospital in the Country.

You will be specifically responsible for assisting the Laundry Production Manager in the operational delivery of linen production for patient’s, visitors and staff at NUH.

Under the direction of the Laundry Production Manager, the Shift Manager is specifically responsible for the overall running, planning/administering and delivering a full service from the on-site laundry at City and a related linen service operation across the Trust and to external contracts as appropriate.

The Shift Manager will also be required to assist in the development and administration of policies and procedures relating to receiving, processing and delivery of laundry items in accordance with HTM 01-04 and other relevant British standards including BSEN 14065.

In addition to the below summary you need to familiarize yourself with full Job Description and Person Specification documents attached to this advert.

The main duties of the role cover day to day management of the laundry operatives and a team of team leaders.

The post holder will be expected to lead, motivate and develop the team.

Maintaining quality standards and adequate supplies of linen is of paramount importance; the post holder will also be expected to ensure all systems and processes relating to BSEN 14065 are adhered to at all times.

Financial and physical resources management will play a key part as will human resources and staff engagement.

The Trust is only one of a handful of NHS Trusts who have their own in house laundry, we have the ability to be self-sufficient with the supply of linen to our patients and not just through a managed service. the team are committed to high quality linen and fast turnaround times. we have invested significantly in some of the machinery and have a plan to replace more over the next few years, this will place the laundry in a position of potentially operating on a commercial level for other smaller NHS organisations and be quality driven as opposed to profit driven.

Every day, our teams at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) make a difference. We save lives, we improve lives and we usher in new life. We are proud to play a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of people in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire and our surrounding communities.

With more than 19,000 colleagues, we are the largest employer in Nottinghamshire and one of the biggest and busiest NHS Trusts in the country, serving more than 2.5m residents of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire and a further four million people across the East Midlands and beyond.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Alex Simonyi Job title: Linen and Laundry Manager Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 07812277270