Assistant Domestic Co-Ordinator

We are urgently looking for this position for a major educational establishment in Manchester.

Overall Purpose of the Job

* To take responsibility for the administration of domestic services for a designated area of the campus residences.

* To oversee the work of the Domestic Supervisors for designated Halls of Residence, providing management support and direction for the supervision of local domestic teams.

Key Responsibilities, Accountabilities and Duties

* To provide information and guidance to colleagues and residents on domestic and maintenance services.

* To supervise and co-ordinate the work of domestic staff for designated residences.

* To undertake administrative activities to support the delivery of domestic services.

* To ensure through supportive and motivational guidance of the Domestic Supervisors in their supervision of staff, all domestic services are carried out to the agreed operating standards.

* To assist the Senior Domestic Co-ordinator in the careful, day-to-day planning and delivery - through guiding, coaching and supporting the Domestic Supervisors - of domestic services to the agreed operating standards.

* To cooperate within the domestic supervisory-management team, in ensuring the monitoring of domestic services standards in their entirety, undertaking corrective actions/leadership, the training & coaching of Domestic Supervisors and Domestic Assistants towards the agreed service methods and standards, as and when agreed and required * To guide and assist with effective staff induction, learning, training an development.

* To ensure compliance and implementation of polices and procedures, and specifically to monitor and ensure that relevant procedures in line with Health & Safety COSHH, Manual Handling, Personal Protective Equipment - and utilising appropriate risk assessments and method statements to facilitate safe working, which are critical to domestic services - are undertaken to the required standards, by the domestic staff.

* To ensure that staff personal hygiene and professional appearance, including work clothing/footwear standards, accords with the agreed standards, at all times.

* To ensure, as agreed and as far as reasonably practicable, the safe keeping and maintenance of the domestic equipment and materials to the required standards of hygiene and safety.

* To assist with monitoring and managing stock control systems within the campus domestic services, including white goods, laundry services, chemical supplies and equipment, liaising with suppliers and contractors as necessary, using the agreed processes and systems.

* To procure services within the financial framework.

* To calculate and check the weekly timesheets via the appropriate and agreed

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