Environmental Services Supervisor

Riverside Health; United States; On-site; USD 27,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Riverside Health System is seeking an Environmental Services Supervisor in Smithfield, VA to oversee daily team operations, create schedules, coach staff, and ensure high-quality, compliant cleaning standards. The role emphasizes patient safety, regulatory alignment, and collaboration with medical staff.

The position manages training, onboarding, and performance, with focus on maintaining a safe environment, infection control, and consistent documentation for leadership review.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• 1 year healthcare or hospitality housekeeping experience required.
• 1 year supervisory experience in housekeeping preferred.
• AHA CHESP certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Interviews, selects and onboards team members.
• Provides training in accordance with RHS policies and aligns with regulatory environment of care standards.
• Provides training during onboarding, annual recertification, and on an as needed basis.
• Assists in maintaining a safe patient care environment by consistently complying with RHS, DNV, State and regulatory standards to ensure the safety of patients, visitors and staff.
• Conducts inspections in area of responsibility daily ensuring quality/infection control measures are met consistently with appropriate documentation forwarded to department Manager.
• Demonstrates and ensure team understands and responds effectively to suggestions and concerns from patients/visitors, personnel, medical staff and leadership.
• Demonstrates the ability to organize the work of self and department team members.
• Works with employees assigned, to ensure that all employees demonstrate an acceptable level of competence which will result in a high level of quality work performance.

Skills

Interviews & onboarding

Training staff

Quality & infection control

Team organization

Regulatory compliance

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

Smithfield, Virginia - Hiring Range $19.70 - $25.63/Hourly. Actual pay is determined based on job-related factors such as relevant experience, education, credentials, skills, internal equity, and business needs.

Overview

The Environmental Services Supervisor oversees the team members day to day operation. Creates work schedules, evaluates their performance and resolves employee complaints. Additionally, this Supervisor is responsible for the quality of work, the productivity of the department, the moral of the department, the working relationship with the medical staff, and employee adherence to facility and departmental policies, procedures and guidelines.

What you will do

• Interviews, selects and onboards team members.
• Provides training in accordance with RHS policies and aligns with regulatory environment of care standards.
• Provides training during onboarding, annual recertification, and on an as needed basis.
• Assists in maintaining a safe patient care environment by consistently complying with RHS, DNV, State and regulatory standards to ensure the safety of patients, visitors and staff.
• Conducts inspections in area of responsibility daily ensuring quality/infection control measures are met consistently with appropriate documentation forwarded to department Manager.
• Demonstrates and ensure team understands and responds effectively to suggestions and concerns from patients/visitors, personnel, medical staff and leadership.
• Demonstrates the ability to organize the work of self and department team members.
• Works with employees assigned, to ensure that all employees demonstrate an acceptable level of competence which will result in a high level of quality work performance.

Qualifications

Education

• High School Diploma or GED, (Required)

Experience

• 1 year Healthcare or Hospitality Housekeeping Experience (Required)
• 1 year Supervisory experience in Housekeeping (Preferred)

Licenses and Certifications

• AHA Certified Healthcare Environmental Services Professional (CHESP) (Preferred)

To learn more about being a team member with Riverside Health System visit us at https://www.riversideonline.com/careers.

If loving your work is important to you, consider a career at Riverside. By joining our team, you can make a difference in people's lives. Our mission is to care for others as we would care for those we love. We extend that sense of caring to every patient, resident and customer, as well as to each member of our team. We offer care at all stages of life, in hundreds of locations, giving you room to grow your career, along with great benefits and perks. At Riverside Health, your trust and safety are our top priorities.