Executive Housekeeper

Melomed Private Hospitals; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 300,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

A premier healthcare provider in South Africa is seeking an experienced Housekeeping Manager to oversee all housekeeping operations. The role involves managing staff, ensuring cleanliness of all areas, adhering to infection control protocols, and maintaining budget compliance. Ideal candidates should have strong leadership and organizational skills, along with a commitment to high standards of cleanliness.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing housekeeping staff and operations.
• Knowledge of infection prevention and control standards.
• Ability to maintain high cleanliness standards in a healthcare environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage housekeeping staff and schedule their duties.
• Ensure cleanliness of all wards and public areas.
• Implement infection control strategies.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Organizational skills

Budget management

Infection control knowledge

Job description

Direct and control the work of all housekeeping staff to ensure a high standard of cleanliness in all wards and public areas

• Schedule the duties of all the housekeeping staff and supervise their daily routine
• Ensure that all housekeeping staff adhere to their assigned shifts
• Assume full responsibility for the day to day running of the Housekeeping Department
• Maintain attendance records for all housekeeping staff
• Ensure the correct uniform is worn at all times and that a high standard of appearance and personal hygiene is maintained and to ensure the same for staff.
• Encourage and maintain effective communications and staff relations within the Housekeeping Department and ensure effective employee relations
• Apply the disciplinary code, if need be, along with the Hospital Manager
• Enforce the safety of equipment, linen, and stock.
• Be fully aware of the fire and emergency procedures.
• To maintain the stock level for the linen and cleaning materials
• Ensure that the Hospitality staff members have sufficient stocks of cleaning materials.
• Ensure that monthly stocktaking of linen, furniture, equipment, and consumables are undertaken.
• Responsible for the ordering and controlling of linen and cleaning materials.
• Ensure that the Housekeeping Department remains within budget limits.
• Be aware of the budgeting and cost control when ordering cleaning materials, linen, and replacements.
• To maintain an on-going maintenance and spring-cleaning schedule in conjunction with the Hospital Manager and Maintenance Department and to ensure that they are satisfactorily completed.
• To spot check wards at regular daily intervals to ensure standards are maintained.
• Manage and maintain all infection control strategies including routine cleaning, Isolation cleaning and discharge turnaround times.
• Comply with Terminal and Outbreak cleaning as per the Infection prevention policies. o Ensuring all chemicals and cleaning detergents are available, controlled and stored correctly. o All chemicals are diluted and distributed in the correct containers, marked correctly in the correct dilution and strength. o The chemicals are correctly applied in the different setting. o Correct equipment is utilized such as fiber mops and muslin brushes. o Storage at ward level in the sluices is compliant to all standards. o PPE used by the staff is in accordance with the guidelines and directives.
• Coordinate the management of the linen process in its entirety including bed linens, patient linens, ward curtains, pillows, theatre scrub suites and ‘Theatre linens such as drapes etc.
• Supply of and receiving linens and bulk storage of all linen items.
• Distribution of linen to wards.
• Packing of linen trollies and scrub suit shelves
• Cleanliness and storage of linen at ward level.
• Supply of enough linens to cover the shifts and activities including ‘Theatre.
• Collection and management of soiled or dirty linen
• Counting and sorting of linen before collection by the contractor.
• Management of condemned linen process.
• Manage loss of linen through inventory audits at least quarterly
• Prepare for and ensure compliance to departmental inspections. i.e. DOH, DOL, OHSC
• Ensure that the public areas are maintained to a high standard and that the change rooms and administration officers are cleaned regularly.
• To ensure that the grounds and gardens outside is kept clean.
• To ensure that the exterior of the Hospital and Reception is always clean and tidy.
• To ensure sufficient staff headcount is allocated daily and relief staff arranged as need.
• Coordinate the management of Waste include medical, anatomical and general municipal waste. (EXCLUDING FOOD WASTE)
• availability of correct containers for different waste with the correct colour coded plastic bags where applicable.
• Availability and usage of PPE by all Housekeeping staff
• Regular collection and removal of waste
• Waste storage compliance to cold chain and collection register
• Waste removal by the contractors, compliance to accurate anatomical registers.
• The operational management of the cradle to grave principle o Risk assessment o Weighing of the waste o Reconciliation of waste destruction o Training of all General assistants in waste management.
• Conducting the evaluations for the housekeeping department bi-annually