Environmental Services Director

About the role

The Environmental Services Director plans, organizes, supervises, and directs all environmental service operations to ensure a clean, safe, and orderly resident living environment.

Required Qualifications

• Preferably has an Associate Degree or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience
• Has at least three years of supervisory experience (preferably in a skilled nursing facility in environmental services)
• Has the ability to read and interpret documents such as rules, equipment operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals
• Has the ability to write routine reports and correspondence
• Possesses mathematical skills such as ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals; ability to compute rate, ratio, and percentages
• Has knowledge of pertinent regulatory agencies and other policies, codes, standards and regulations
• Has knowledge of infection control techniques

Responsibilities

• Efficiently managing the facility's housekeeping operations and the Environmental Services staff
• Ensuring nursing home residents enjoy a clean and orderly living environment
• Authority to make administrative decisions with regard to the hiring, training and assignment of personnel, recommending employee promotions and terminations
• Develops systems and programs for maximizing the effectiveness of the housekeeping functions
• Performs regular daily, weekly and monthly environmental services inspections in order to ensure the facility is maintained in a safe and sanitary manner according to facility policy
• Oversees the purchases of cleaning supplies, chemicals, paper products, office supplies, and departmental equipment as needed to meet department demands
• Maintains required records and reports as outlined in the policies and procedures of the Environmental Services Department
• Adheres to local, state and federal environmental, health and safety regulations
• Participates in facility disaster planning efforts including ensuring staff participation in regular fire drills as required by state statute, maintaining emergency supplies, and performing all staff training
• Refers decisions that require policy changes and approval of outside contracts to the nursing home Administrator
• Consistently follows a written, current master cleaning plan for the entire facility
• Reviews and evaluates the work performance of assigned personnel as well as counsels/disciplines assigned personnel according to the established company personnel policy