Manager - Environmental Services, Bend

St. Charles Health System; Bend (OR); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

St. Charles Health System is seeking a Manager Environmental Services to lead housekeeping and linen operations across the Bend campuses.

You will plan, direct, and optimize resources, ensuring sanitary, attractive, safe, and orderly environments for patients and staff. The role requires five years of relevant housekeeping experience with at least one year in leadership, CHEST certification, and a valid Oregon driver’s license.

Qualifications

• Requires CHEST certification.
• Requires Oregon driver’s license and ability to travel to SCHS sites.

Responsibilities

• Plans and directs Environmental Services functions to keep hospital areas sanitary and orderly.
• Supervises supervisors and caregivers; hires, trains, and develops staff.
• Maintains staffing within budget and coordinates schedules.
• Performs quality assurance checks and ensures safety and infection control standards.
• Delivers timely customer service and responds to requests from customers.

Skills

Leadership

Budgeting

Customer service

Lean concepts

Training

Scheduling

Safety compliance

Education

High School Diploma/GED

Bachelor’s Degree

Job description

The Manager Environmental Services manages the provision of housekeeping and linen services. This position directs, organizes, and plans the use of resources (human, equipment, supplies) and processes (methods, policies, and procedures) to ensure the hospital environments are sanitary, attractive, safe and orderly. This position directly manages supervisors, coordinators and caregivers.

Essential Functions And Duties

• Plans, organizes, directs, coordinates and supervises functions and activities of the Environmental Services Departments to maintain the hospital environment in a sanitary, attractive, and orderly condition.
• Coordinates services to maintain the cleanliness, comfort, and safety of the interior of the Bend service areas.
• Performs Quality Assurance checks daily.
• Observes areas that need cleaning and schedules cleaning to be done.
• Responds to all requests from customers in a timely and courteous manner.
• Assists with entering new ESD caregivers into the Bed Tracking system.
• Directs and oversees recruitment, hiring, and orientation activities of new caregivers.
• Provides initial and ongoing training, coaching and development of caregivers.
• Maintains daily and weekly schedules for the department keeping staffing within budget parameters.
• Maintains a high level of patient and customer satisfaction and safety.
• Provides reports as needed in follow-up to surveys, inspections, and audits.
• Assists with cleaning needs as necessary.
• Maintains a thorough knowledge of cleaning processes, regulatory requirements, infection control policies, codes and disaster response process as it applies to the department.
• Responsible for budget development, regular monitoring, accountability and meeting all operational targets for all areas within span of control
• Hires, directs, coaches, and monitors the performance of all direct reports, to develop and maintain a high-performance team that meets organizational and department goals
• Monitors and ensures all direct reports are current with compliance and safety requirements. Implements and manages all organizational safety directives and goals
• Provides and oversees team’s delivery of customer service in a manner that promotes goodwill, is timely, efficient and accurate.
• Collaborates with teams to review processes and identify/implement opportunities for improvements, applying Lean concepts and tools.
• Conducts all activities with the highest standards of professionalism and confidentiality. Complies with all applicable laws, regulations, policies and procedures, supporting the organization’s corporate integrity efforts by acting in an ethical and appropriate manner, reporting known or suspected violation of applicable rules, and cooperating fully with all organizational investigations and proceedings.
• Delivers customer service and/or patient care in a manner that promotes goodwill, is timely, efficient and accurate.
• May perform additional duties of similar complexity within the organization, as required or assigned.

Education

• Required: High School Diploma/GED.
• Preferred: Bachelor’s Degree in related field.

Licensure/Certification/Registration

• Required: Certified Healthcare Environmental Services Technician (CHEST). Valid Oregon driver's license and ability to travel to all SCHS worksites.
• Preferred: N/A

Experience

• Required: Five (5) years relevant housekeeping experience to include at least one (1) year of leadership experience.
• Preferred: Three (3) years leadership experience.