Leading organization looking for dynamic individuals to join as a Manager - Housekeeping.

Designation: Manager - Housekeeping (Full Time)

Location: Colombo

Responsibility

• Ensuring a high standard of hygiene and cleanliness throughout all the service areas.
• Ensure that housekeeping staff assigned to other departments perform duties in accordance with the house keeping departmental procedure and hospital policies.
• Train and guide new employees on the hospital policies and procedures and ensure proper inuring of staff members as guided by the supervisor.
• Take necessary actions to make internal customers request services through job cards and maintain records of jobs performed.
• Monitor the hospital occupancy report to determine allocation of task for housekeeping assistant.
• Assist the process of performance appraisal of all housekeeping assistants and preparing guidelines and time frames for improvement.
• Inuring all new staff of the department to its facilities, policies, tasks, procedures and standards to ensure the highest standard of service.
• Arranging staff schedules, rosters to ensure sufficient staff to over workload and minimize overtime payments.
• Controlling inventory of all stock items including line, cleaning agents, monitoring all activities with regard to assigned ones and report irregularities immediately.
• Providing current information to housekeeping assistants and patient about hospital facilities.
• Responding to patient request and attending to patient complaints immediately and exercise proper discipline and courtesy in attending to the patient needs/request.
• Responsible to the careful and adequate use of equipment and for the proper maintained of the same.
• Providing assistants to patients in all hospital emergency evacuation and medical procedures.
• Ensure adherence of all housekeeping assistants to the grooming standard of the hospital.
• Ensure non-disclosure of confidentiality of the patient, staff or organization.
• Responsible to effectively assign duties of housekeeping Executives and housekeeping Supervisors within the hospital premises.
• Personally monitor and supervise cleanliness of outsource housekeeping areas within the hospital.
• Implement strategies to retain the housekeeping staff within the hospital premises.
• Promote team work within laundry and Linen section and Housekeeping section and maintain strong interdepartmental relations
• Recommends equipment, linen and chemical purchasing needs to Department Head in budget preparation.
• Manage overall daily operations of the Laundry and Linen Room
• Is responsible for supervising the duties perform by Laundry Supervisor.
• Is responsible for de-centralization of all services in the Laundry and Linen section.

Minimum Entry Qualifications:

• Minimum 10 years of experience in housekeeping in an Executive or above position.
• Diploma or relevant professional qualification from a recognized institution.