Home Enablement Supervisor WCC624102

As Specialist Cleaning Supervisor, you too can make a powerful contribution. You'll lead, coordinate, and inspire a small team. Together, you'll deliver professional, sensitive cleaning services for properties affected by hoarding, hazardous waste, or extreme cleaning needs. This is your chance to combine operational leadership with genuine social value - improving health and care outcomes for those who need it most.

You'll set operational standards and improvement initiatives, so that your team delivers the best deep cleaning and decontamination services. The organisation of the team will sit with you. This will involve planning and coordinating operations, allocating work schedules, and ensuring efficient use of resources and timely completion of tasks. Plus, you'll hold budget oversight and be the decision-making authority. You'll maintain accurate records of work completed, incidents, and materials used. And you'll manage an inventory of cleaning supplies, PPE, and specialist equipment. This will support transparency, accountability and accuracy.

Teamwork will be a core part of what you do. You'll lead multi-agency collaboration - including working with housing officers and social workers - to work towards the best outcome for residents. If you ever spot safeguarding concerns or damage to property, you'll report these to the relevant authorities.

With your own team, you'll ensure compliance with health and safety regulations, including COSHH and biohazard protocols. You'll also participate in recruitment and performance management. And encourage your team to develop through coaching and feedback.

Please note that this work will require some evening and weekend work. Also, you'll need to wear PPE for extended periods.

You'll be the driving force behind a service that transforms lives - leading a team that brings dignity, safety, and hope to those facing the most difficult circumstances. You'll have the autonomy to shape and grow the service, with the support of a council that values your expertise and invests in your development. If you want a role where your leadership, compassion, and operational skills truly matter, this is the opportunity for you.

We're looking for someone with experience of working with vulnerable individuals and in multi-agency teams. You've supervised teams in specialist or industrial cleaning environments. Even under pressure or when circumstances are sensitive, you're comfortable leading. All this experience has given you a strong understanding of safety procedures, including COSHH and PPE.

Doing this job, you'll be exposed to unpleasant environments and materials - you're prepared to take this on. As well as okay with wearing PPE for extended periods and adapting to our flexible work hours, which can include occasional evenings and weekends.

A strong leader, you've got great team management, interpersonal and communication skills. This is complemented by a knack for performance management and strategic planning. You're confident at managing time, resources and priorities effectively. Your sharp eye for detail focuses in on quality assurance. For this role, you'll need IT literacy for scheduling, reporting, and record-keeping. A UK Driving License is key too.

It would be nice to see the following qualifications: certification in biohazard or trauma cleaning; health and safety training, including COSHH awareness; manual handling certification; safeguarding training (Level 1 or above). However, we're most interested in your skills and experience.

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF SAFIA'S INCLUSIVE NATURE

Public Health at Westminster City Council is a place of Extraordinary Stories. Where empathy drives collaboration and builds vibrant, inclusive communities.

Safia is an excellent example of someone who has brought real passion to her role. From her Environmental Health work with Chinatown's restaurateurs, to time out volunteering with refugees in Jordan, she understands people and has always wanted to help them. It's what inspired her to join Public Health. She works with a fantastic team, tackling inequality across Westminster, supporting vulnerable people, and promoting mental health services. Safia's natural people skills means she thrives when working with others. The work she does is focussed on bringing London's diverse cultures together, building trust, improving mental health, and maintaining the highest of standards. And Westminster is vibrant with the positive impact she and the team has on its communities., Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city's future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe. At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and
is empowered to be their best, that is Our Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/

As a forward-thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.