Supervisor Laundry

Maintains acceptable standards

• Maintains acceptable standards in the areas of: attendance, customer service, professionalism and establishing harmonious working relationships.

Supervisory Functions

• Prepares work schedules, assigns staff, observes and reviews performance to provide input to formal evaluations, and makes recommendations for personnel actions.
• Aids in staff selection and provides orientation, training and ongoing in-services for staff.

Schedules and Supervises

• Schedules and supervises Laundry functions and activities so as not to interrupt or interfere with patient care activities.
• Ensures all jobs are filled properly and linens moved smoothly.
• Maintains required records, reports, and statistics as directed.
• Inputs all daily deliveries into computer for monthly reports.
• Provides information on linen ordering requirements.
• Responds to all deliveries that are considered to be “STAT”.
• Ensures delivery of all linen in a timely manner to departments.
• Makes recommendations concerning repairs, linen replacement, cleaning, improved sanitation and other means of creating efficiencies.
• Checks that all chemical dispensers are working properly on a daily basis.

Other Duties

• Demonstrates and upholds established standards of behavior, safety, and confidentiality, as well as TMCH and department policies and standards.
• Works collaboratively and supports efforts of other team members.
• Maintains log for all unusable linen that is taken from service.
• Loads and unloads all linen from dryer using proper settings for drying of linen, as to type of linen.
• Demonstrates understanding of all surgery requirements on special folding.
• Communicates with all units in regard to telephone orders.
• Ensures compliance with applicable regulatory requirements and reports to Manager any possible compliance issues.
• Attends annual compliance training.

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Knowledge of laundry operations and safety practices.
• Skills in training and leading staff.
• Ability to read or listen and comprehend simple instructions spoken in the English language, short correspondence, and memos.
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.
• Ability to add and subtract two-digit numbers.
• Ability to read a clock and accurately document time.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.