Service Aide Housekeeping Staff

Objective: Lead hospital environmental service aide supervisor with over 18 years of experience in overseeing the work of housekeeping staff in a busy hospital environment. Ability to provide leadership and direction for all housekeeping activities of the hospital to ensure highest level of cleanliness and sanitation.

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

●Personal and professional initiative, enthusiasm, and dedication to excellence in wide ranging services to the hospital’s patients and staff.

●Ability to maintain an on-going list by priority of projects and tasks, to assume timely and effective solutions to unanticipated patient’s focused issues.

●Ability to work long hours, while under pressure.

●Ability to adapt and work effectively in various parts of the hospital.

●Strong leadership management

●Inventory replenishment

●preventative maintenance

●Interior and exterior cleaning

●Working knowledge of federal, state, local, union, hospital, and OSHA regulations.

●Working knowledge of all cleaning equipment, techniques, chemicals, and supplies.

●Proficiency in the use of microsoft word, excel, and outlook.

Ability to use two-way radios, pagers, and other communication devices.

PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS

●Effectively scout’s patients’ rooms to ensure that the level of cleanliness is in acordance with the hospital’s standards.

●Oversees the mixing and use of cleaning and sanitizing supplies, ensuring saftey at all times.

●Special talent for handling supplies inventory, aiming to keep an appropriate stock level.

●Competent in hiring and training housekeeping staff members, ensuring that sufficient staff backup is available.

●Implemented a novel housekeeping oversight system, which was considered 85% more efficient than the existing one.

●Revamped the inventory system, adding a special feature that provided alerts for low stock situations.

●Reduced costs of housekeeping supplies by 50% by bringing onboard less expensive supplier.

Established metrics and standards for housekeeping work from scratch, streaming the process successfully.

EDUCATION

Washington Erving High School Manhattan, NY

General Educational Development Equivalency 1991-1995

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Mercy Medical Center Rockville Centre, NY

Lead environmental service aide January 2003 – Present

●Determined the need for housekeeping staff on daily basis, and ensured that all housekeeping, maintenance and janitorial requirements were filled.

●Inspected patient’s rooms, lobbies, offices, waiting areas and procedure rooms to ensure that standards of cleanliness are upheld.

●Overseed the work of housekeeping staff to ensure that they are working according to standards.

●Provided instructions for mixing and using sanitization and cleaning agents in a safe manner.

●Kept inventory checks, ensuring that low stock situations are rectified immediately.

●Created and maintained effective liaison with vendors and suppliers to ensure timely and accurate delivery of supplies and equipment.

●Ascertain that all cleaning and sanitizing equipment is properly maintained and repaired on a regular basis.

●Interviewed, hired and trained housekeeping staff, ensuring that their ongoing training needs are constantly met.

●Mixed appropriate amounts of cleaning agents and disinfectants by following safety rules and protocols.

●Dusted and polished hospital furniture, ensuring that all fixtures and repairs were executed by the maintenance staff.

●Created a work environment that promotes teamwork, recognition, mutual respect, and employee satisfaction.

●Conducted, and participated in regular safety inspection tours of the facility and ensure documentations of findings.

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