Supervisor - Environmental Services - FT Evenings
Sanford Health
Summary
Supervisor, Environmental Services helps provide direct leadership and guidance to staff to ensure that high level of cleanliness, quality and service is achieved and maintained.
Job description
Summary
Supervisor, Environmental Services helps provide direct leadership and guidance to staff to ensure that high level of cleanliness, quality and service is achieved and maintained.
Job Description
- Maintain a high level of cleanliness in assigned areas.
- Work closely with other departments to coordinate projects, room moves, room turn overs, etc.
- Assign personnel to established work areas or project duties.
- May assist with coverage in areas of housekeeping and laundry during staffing shortages.
- Plan and coordinate project work to ensure that proper frequencies are maintained.
- Ensure that staff receive proper orientation, initial training and ongoing education.
- Ensure that proper supply control guidelines are followed and staff is trained in the use of all chemicals.
- Use a proactive approach to identifying and correcting facility quality assurance concerns.
- Provide and monitor individual guidance and motivation to associates to enable each one to perform to fullest potential.
- Ensure high quality percentage of clean is maintained in areas of assignment.
- Perform Quality Assurance Inspections as assigned.
- Monitor daily equipment use, cleaning and maintenance.
- Ensure that all equipment is clean and professional in appearance at all times.
- Prepare associate disciplinary and variance reports and conduct follow-up investigation as needed, reporting findings to appropriate leader.
- Participate in department safety and maintain a safe work environment at all times.
- Report all unsafe equipment and acts.
- Assure that the integrity of security at the facility is maintained at all times.
- Ensure office, storage and closets are clean, organized, well maintained and professional in appearance at all times.
- Assist with The Joint Commission (TJC) compliance.
- Participate in staff selection process and interview candidates as needed.
- Schedule days off, holidays and vacations, ensuring that facility's needs are met in accordance with budgeted hours and the department position control.
- Review duty lists with regular and relief associates periodically, provide assistance to ensure duty lists are revised and current at all times, help to maintain records and make sure log books are current and maintain all necessary documentation.
- Monitor service binders in assigned areas on a daily basis taking appropriate action to resolve concerns/comments.
- Respond to concerns and requests with a sense of urgency and take necessary corrective action including timely follow-up.
- May provide backup assistance for approving timecards, assisting with evaluations, getting schedules out, delivering and ordering of supplies.
Qualifications
High School Diploma or equivalent required. Ability to use computer and prefer supervisory experience. Attend all monthly departmental meetings or review meeting minutes. Annually attend Infection Control and Safety In-services as specified in personnel policy.
Requirements
- High School Diploma or equivalent required
- Ability to use computer
- Supervisory experience preferred
- Attend all monthly departmental meetings or review meeting minutes
- Annually attend Infection Control and Safety In-services
Company overview
Sanford Health is one of the largest integrated healthcare delivery systems in the United States, operating as a nonprofit organization headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Founded in 1894, the organization has grown into a comprehensive health system with 44 medical centers, 482 clinics, and more than 200 senior living facilities across 26 states and nine countries. Sanford Health provides a full spectrum of healthcare services including acute care hospitals, specialty clinics, senior care through the Good Samaritan Society, genomic medicine, global clinics, and the Sanford Health Plan insurance program. The system employs over 48,000 healthcare professionals including 1,400 physicians and delivers care through five Centers of Excellence: Cancer, Children's, Heart, Orthopedics/Sports Medicine, and Women's Health. Annually, Sanford Health handles approximately 5.3 million outpatient visits, 84,000 admissions, and 136,000 surgeries. The organization is also actively involved in medical research and education through partnerships with academic institutions, positioning itself as a regional healthcare leader in the Midwest with expanding international presence.