Job Description
Supervises and coordinates the staff and daily operations of the Laundry and Linen department. Facilitates laundry washing procedures and distribution of clean linen to patient areas.
Job Responsibility
- Promotes Linens department goals by selecting, motivating, and training capable team members.
- Leads the activities of assigned Linens team members by communicating and providing guidance toward achieving department objectives.
- Supervises, hires, trains, disciplines, and evaluates the performance of staff; ensures performance appraisals are completed in a timely manner.
- Prioritizes, schedules, assigns, and monitors work to optimize operational service.
- Analyzes, recommends, implements, and monitors approved work-flow changes.
- Ensures timely execution of all procedures to facilitate availability of linen and garments in proper hospital areas.
- Inspects laundry after washing to ensure correct amounts of soap, bleach, and softener have been used.
- Monitors washed linen for stains and tears, returning laundry back for additional cleaning or repairs, as needed.
- Evaluates laundry equipment, checking for proper air temperature, steam pressure and temperature control; recommends maintenance, repair, upgrade or replacement, as required.
- Ensures operating compliance with hospital and government regulations.
- Takes inventory of supplies and maintains adequate stock levels; generates and maintains various department records and reports on operational performance to management.
- Performs related duties as required. All responsibilities noted here are considered essential functions of the job under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Duties not mentioned here, but considered related are not essential functions.
Job Qualification
- Associate's Degree required, or equivalent combination of education and related experience.
- 4-6 years of relevant experience and 0-2 years of leadership / management experience, required.
*Additional Salary Detail
The salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future.When determining a team member's base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal equity).
