Housekeeping Supervisor

Role & responsibilities

• Ensure the cleanliness and maintenance of the hospital (Patient rooms and Public areas).
• Responsible for the smooth functioning of the housekeeping / Attendant department.
• Inspect rooms and other areas to ensure cleaning standards have been met.
• Perform informal & formal workplace inspection including staff observation.
• Identify and implement process improvement and quality improvement initiatives.
• Ensuring the provision of safe, pleasant and infection free environment to the patient.
• Reinforce and demonstrate a positive health and safety attitude and working climate and hold information session with staff on health & safety issues.
• Supervising the work allocation given to the Housekeepers & Attendants of respective contractors.
• To check the Occupancy status, work allocation, attendance register.
• Preparing the duty-chart of the Housekeepers/ Attendants and getting it approved by the Head of the Department.
• To check and control overtime of contractual staffs.
• Ensure proper grooming of the Housekeeper / Attendant staff; ensuring that they are in proper uniform and having their I-card and name plates.
• Cooperating with the L&D staff to organize training of new recruits and on the job training for staff posted in the patient areas.
• Ensure that a maintenance programme for any equipment and machinery in the workplace is carried out.
• Coordinating with the nursing and patient services department for the performance of Attendants and Housekeepers.
• Ensure the preparation of the patient kit and its timely supply at each floor in the nursing station pantry.
• Maintaining the register and enter the counting of the linens in the register
• Forwarding the linens received from the Patient Kit to the laundry
• Ensure that the patient room is ready prior to the admission of new patient
• Ensure that the necessary cleaning materials and agents are available for washing /cleaning of all the areas of the hospital.
• Ensuring maximum utilization of cleaning material and cost control of the same.
• Ensure that the biomedical waste are segregated by the housekeeper into properly coded bags
• Ensuring that the biomedical garbage bags are weighed properly and forwarded for degradation
• Any other work assigned by the management from time to time.

Preferred candidate profile

Knowledge of various cleansing agents used for various surfaces

Knowledge of infection control

Knowledge of Housekeeping staff available in the external labor market

Knowledge of Bio-medical waste management