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Housekeeping Supervisor - Environmental Services (Evenings)
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What they do
A Housekeeping or Environmental Services Supervisor supervises the staff that provide cleaning and housekeeping services, primarily for rooms and bathrooms in hotels and hospitals. May also work in office buildings, colleges, other institutions or private residences with a large housekeeping staff.
$39,189 / year median in Georgia
+9% projected growth
Job Description
$1,000 Sign On Bonus
- External Hires Only Oversee the daily operations of department.
Insures all schedules are covered and work evenly distributed, including working a schedule when needed. Inspects dismissals making corrections or working with staff to correct. Daily makes rounds to document project work to assign, condition of departments. Works well with other departments to project a positive attitude and always working as part of the facility team.
Required Knowledge & Skills
Education:
High School Diploma or GED
Experience:
Three years of related experience. Requires working knowledge of specialized practices, equipment, and procedures.
Licenses and Certifications
- DRIVER'S LICENSE
Qualifications - In lieu of High School diploma GED, 3 years supervisor experience is required.
- Proven ability to effectively work with others at all levels within and outside TMC.
- Must, after brief training, be able to demonstrate correct use of chemicals, supplies, and tools assigned.
- Ability to maintain good public relations with visitors, patients and staff.
Statement Of Employment Philosophy
Being a part of Tanner Health System is more than a job, it is a promise we make to treat every patient with exceptional service every time they walk through our doors. Service excellence is the foundation of our organizational culture and the expectations we all set for each other, our patients, physicians and our community. All employees agree to abide by a set of service standards. These standards are the promise we make to provide the best care possible, and represent our beliefs, values and who we strive to become. We each commit to making Tanner Health System a great place for our employees to work, for patients to receive care and for physicians to practice medicine.
Functions
Area of Responsibilities
- Oversee the day to day operations of the department, report and assist management with any pertinent needs or problems.
- Coordinates and assists moves within the hospital making sure we have the manpower and completed in a timely manner.
- Periodically inspects dismissals to insure quality standards are being met.
- Oversees scheduling and training of new employees. Documents employees training and annual retraining.
- Assumes responsibility for the department, in the absence of upper management.
- Promote teamwork and empower teams and individuals to meet their potential
- Support quality and efficiency improvement efforts
- Communicate pertinent hospital activities to departmental employees
- Communicate pertinent department activities to administrative contact and other departments as necessary.
- Establish and maintain high level of employee morale.
- Develop personal education to be proactive in meeting the future needs of the department
- Demonstrate a positive attitude toward all customers of Tanner, internal and external
- Project a positive, professional image
- To provide technical and supervisory assistance in housekeeping services within Tanner Health Systems.
- Works closely with management on any staff disciplinary problems.
- Reviews with manager staff annual job standards. Supplies input and comments to manager pertaining to quality, education, training, etc.
- Participates in any non-medical emergency codes that may be called within the hospital.
- Performs daily checks of various areas in the facility. Takes corrective actions to comply with quality issues
- Maintains close control on supply distribution and usage.
- Provides positive feedback, administers constructive criticism and functions as a sounding board for team or individual ideas.
- Daily insures proper coverage for all schedules assigning and changing schedules to meet the needs of the facility. Distributing work evenly and working a schedule when needed.
- May be assigned to bed management transfer center to ensure that transfer and discharge room cleanings for the system are assigned and completed in a timely manner.
Compliance Statement
Employee performs within the prescribed limits of Tanner Health System's Ethics and Compliance program. Is responsible to detect, observe, and report compliance variances to their immediate supervisor, the Compliance Officer, or the Hotline.
Required Knowledge & Skills
Education:
High School Diploma or GED
Experience:
Three years of related experience. Requires working knowledge of specialized practices, equipment, and procedures.
Licenses and Certifications
- DRIVER'S LICENSE
Supervision - Direct supervision of 20 to 30 staff members
Qualifications - In lieu of High School diploma GED, 3 years supervisor experience is required.
- Proven ability to effectively work with others at all levels within and outside TMC.
- Must, after brief training, be able to demonstrate correct use of chemicals, supplies, and tools assigned.
- Ability to maintain good public relations with visitors, patients and staff.
Definitions
Oversee the daily operations of department. Insures all schedules are covered and work evenly distributed, including working a schedule when needed. Inspects dismissals making corrections or working with staff to correct. Daily makes rounds to document project work to assign, condition of departments. Works well with other departments to project a positive attitude and always working as part of the facility team.
Position Responsibilities
Contact with
Others:
Requires frequent but limited contacts with many others to do job, or extensive contacts with a limited number of categories of people to apply procedures or treatment. Requires discretion and tact to interpret departmental procedures.
Effect of Error:
Probable errors may be serious and involve losses such as improper costs, overpayment, waste of material, damage to equipment, and delay in processing work. Effect usually confined within the organization. Most of work not subject to direct verification or check. Regularly works with some confidential data such as account, salaries, patient medical records, which if disclosed might have adverse internal or external effects.
People Management Responsibilities
Supervisory Responsibility:
Supervises (as defined above) a large section of employees (15 up).
Work Environment/Physical Effort
Mental Demands:
Work involves a variety of problems in a general field, some of which are complex. Involves some independent judgment to decide what to do to assemble facts, determine variations from standard procedures, or plan other action to be taken to meet general objectives.
Working Conditions:
Moderate
- (About 50% of the day) Involved in exposure to dirt, odors, noise, or some work is performed with exposure to temperature/weather extremes/occupational risk.
Limited probability of coming into contact with blood borne pathogens, other potentially infectious diseases, or biomedical/bio-hazardous materials.
Working Conditions Aspects for Immunizations
Performs tasks involving contact with blood, blood-contaminated body fluids, other body fluids, or sharps (needles): Yes
Directly works with Patients less than 12 months of age: No
Physical Effort:
Medium physical effort
- Lifts, carries, or handles lightweight (1 to 25 lbs.
) materials or equipment for most of the day. Occasional physical effort with medium weight objects (25-60 lbs.). Very occasional physical effort with heavy objects (over 60 lbs.).Works in reaching or strained positions for about half of day.
Physical Aspects
Bending:
Frequent = 34%
- 66% of the time
Typing:
Occasional = 1%
- 33% of the time
Manual Dexterity - picking, pinching with fingers etc.: Frequent = 34%
- 66% of the time
Feeling (Touch) - determining temperature, texture, by touching: Frequent = 34%
- 66% of the time
Hearing:
Constant = 67%
- 100% of the time.
Reaching - above shoulder: Frequent = 34%
- 66% of the time
Reaching - below shoulder: Frequent = 34%
- 66% of the time
Visual:
Constant = 67%
- 100% of the time.
Color Vision:
Frequent = 34%
- 66% of the time
Speaking:
Frequent = 34%
- 66% of the time
Standing:
Frequent = 34%
- 66% of the time
Balancing:
Frequent = 34%
- 66% of the time
Walking:
Frequent = 34%
- 66% of the time
Crawling:
Occasional = 1%
- 33% of the time
Running - in response to an emergency: Occasional = 1%
- 33% of the time
Lifting up to 25 lbs.: Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time
Lifting 25 to 60 lbs.: Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time
Lifting over 60 lbs.: Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time
Handling - seizing, holding, grasping: Frequent = 34%
- 66% of the time
Carrying:
Frequent = 34%
- 66% of the time
Climbing:
Occasional = 1%
- 33% of the time
Kneeling:
Occasional = 1%
- 33% of the time
Squatting:
Occasional = 1%
- 33% of the time
Tasting:
Not required
Smelling:
Frequent = 34%
- 66% of the time
Driving - Utility vehicles such as golf carts, Gators, ATV, riding lawnmowers, skid steer, aerial lift: Not required
Driving - Class C vehicles: Occasional = 1%
- 33% of the time
Driving - CDL class vehicles: Not required
N95 Respirator usage (PPE): Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time
Hazmat suit usage (PPE): Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time
Pushing/Pulling - up to 25 lbs.: Occasional = 1%
- 33% of the time
Pushing/Pulling - 25 to 60 lbs.: Occasional = 1%
- 33% of the time
Pushing/Pulling - over 60 lbs. : Occasional = 1%
- 33% of the time
Benefits
- Bonuses/Stipends
- Dental Insurance