AddressManager - Housekeeping Services
Job description:
- Manage the daily activities of the Housekeeping department to include appropriate cleaning of all bedrooms, public areas and offices.
- Planning, organising and directing team members to ensure the highest degree of patient satisfaction and high standards of cleanliness across the hospital
- To monitor, check and maintain standards of cleanliness within all areas of the hospital on a daily basis.
- Daily supervision of all housekeeping staff.
- Purchase, order and maintain housekeeping supplies and inventory.
- Recruit, schedule and train all new housekeeping staff members.
- To adhere to all meetings such as health and safety, infection prevention and control, monthly team meetings.
- Manage the housekeeping budget, control the holidays and staff schedule systems.
- To monitor and maintain good working relations with suppliers for linen, general and clinical waste, window cleaning, cleaning products , outside company for deep cleaning
- Uphold the highest standards of cleanliness, safety, and conduct.
- Ensures the proper maintenance of all equipment; makes arrangements for repair and/or replacement of used and damaged equipment.
- To review and update the self-check cleaning sheets and to undertake all audits
- To report any maintenance problems observed either in patient's bedrooms or around the hospital immediately to the Building Services Manager, making sure that all the bedrooms are in fully working order before being allocated to a patient
- To ensure that linen is at the standards required and that distribution within the hospital it is done correctly by the Linen-Keeper
- To maintain a professional and helpful attitude whilst on duty towards patients, consultants, visitors and colleagues.
- To ensure that housekeeping staffs wear the correct uniform and name badges at all times whilst on duty.
- To assist when required with the cleaning of patient bedrooms.
- To manage all site waste disposal and collection including clinical and confidential waste
