Manager, Environmental Services - FT (OMC)

Atlantic Health System is hiring a Full-Time Environmental Services Manager for Overlook Medical Center in Summit, NJ. The role involves managing the housekeeping team, ensuring cleanliness standards, staff training, and collaboration with other departments. Required hours are 3:30 PM to 11:30 PM, including weekends/on-call. Candidates should have leadership experience in environmental services, strong customer service skills, and knowledge of HCAHPS.
Job Description

Atlantic Health System is seeking a Full-Time Environmental Services Manager for the Environmental Services (Housekeeping) Department at Overlook Medical Center. Required hours are: 3:30PM - 11:30PM (but can vary), weekends/on-call as required.

Essential Functions/Responsibilities
• Manage, lead, and develop the Environmental Services team, including supervisors and team members, to ensure high standards of cleanliness and efficiency.
• Manages the staff and activities of the environmental services (housekeeping) department in maintaining department objectives, policies, procedures, and standards.
• Hires, trains, and evaluates direct reports and ensures performance appraisals and feedback are effectively communicated to improve department productivity.
• Work closely with other hospital departments, including infection prevention, nursing, facilities, and administration, to address specific cleaning needs and ensure smooth operations.
• Manages staffing requirements to maintain adequate levels and prepares staff work schedules.
• Prepares, conducts, and organizes training programs, as necessary.
• Collaborates with Director in the review, development, and monitoring of department budgets including staffing, equipment, and supplies.
• Leads quality control efforts and ensures adequate inventory of supplies.
• Maintains environmental guideline manuals and reviews the details for regulatory accuracy.
• Monitors and ensures patient throughput by reducing turnaround times for discharge cleaning.
• Provides a clean and safe environment for patients, visitors, and team members at all times.
• Collaborate and participate in managing patient satisfaction scores. As appropriate, make recommendations on potential improvement plans to further enhance performance.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Requirements
• HS Diploma/GED required.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• To provide a safe environment to our patients, we require that all candidates must be able to read, write and speak English.
• Knowledge of HCAHPS required.
• Must be able to bend/push/pull/lift 50LBS.

Relevant Experience
• Leadership experience managing environmental services (housekeeping) in a healthcare environment preferred.
• Experience working in environmental services (housekeeping) or a relevant area of hospitality management preferred.
• Strong computer knowledge (Excel, Word and PowerPoint), customer service skills a must.

About Us

ABOUT US

At Atlantic Health System, Our Promise To Our Communities Is; Anyone Who Enters One Of Our Facilities, Will Receive The Highest Quality Care Delivered At The Right Time, At The Right Place, And At The Right Cost. This Commitment Is Also Echoed In The Respect, Development And Opportunities We Give To Our More Than 20,000 Team Members. Headquartered In Morristown, New Jersey, We Are One Of The Leading Non-profit Health Care Systems In The Nation. Our Facilities And Sites Of Care Include
• Morristown Medical Center, Morristown, NJ
• Overlook Medical Center, Summit, NJ
• Newton Medical Center, Newton, NJ
• Chilton Medical Center, Pompton Plains, NJ
• Hackettstown Medical Center, Hackettstown, NJ
• Goryeb Children's Hospital, Morristown, NJ
• CentraState Healthcare System, Freehold, NJ
• Atlantic Home Care and Hospice
• Atlantic Mobile Health
• Atlantic Rehabilitation

We also have more than 900 community-based healthcare providers affiliated through Atlantic Medical Group. Atlantic Accountable Care Organization is one of the largest ACOs in the nation, and we are a member of AllSpire Health Partners.

We Have Received Awards And Recognition For The Services We Have Provided To Our Patients, Team Members And Communities. Below Are Just a Few Of Our Accolades
• 100 Best Companies to Work For ® and FORTUNE® magazine for 15 years
• Best Places to Work in Healthcare - Modern Healthcare
• 150 Top Places to work in Healthcare - Becker's Healthcare
• 100 Accountable Care Organizations to Know - Becker's Hospital Review
• Best Employers for Workers over 50 - AARP
• Gold-Level "Well Workplace": Wellness Council of America (WELCOA)
• One of the 100 Best Workplaces for “Millennials” Great Place to Work® and FORTUNE® magazine
• One of the 20 Best Workplaces in Health Care: Great Place to Work® and FORTUNE® magazine
• Official Health Care Partner of the New York Jets
• NJ Sustainable Business

Named one of America's 50 Best Hospitals by Healthgrades, a World’s Best Hospital by Newsweek and recognized as a Best Regional Hospital in the NY Metro area by U.S. News & World Report.

Our Atlantic Neuroscience Institute is the region’s leader in neuroscience care. A hub for the New Jersey Stroke Network, we offer a broad range of advanced neurological, neurosurgical and neurodiagnostic services. We are also certified as a Level IV Epilepsy Center and home to the Gerald J. Glasser Brain Tumor Center, where more brain tumor surgeries are performed than anywhere else in New Jersey. Our CyberKnife® program is the largest and most experienced in the state. We also have a satellite emergency department in Union, NJ, which treats about 40,000 emergency cases each year.

Committed to providing exceptional care, Overlook Medical Center has achieved the prestigious Magnet® recognition. This designation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center is the highest national honor for nursing excellence. What’s more, Overlook Medical Center has advanced certification from The Joint Commission for perinatal care and is designated an Advanced Comprehensive Stroke Center. Additional Joint Commission-certified services include behavioral health care, spine surgery, wound care, and primary care medical home (PCMH).

EEO STATEMENT

Atlantic Health System, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer and federal contractor or subcontractor and therefore abides by applicable laws to protect applicants and employees from discrimination in hiring, promotion, discharge, pay, fringe benefits, job training, classification, referral, and other aspects of employment, on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity and sexual orientation), national origin, citizenship status, disability, age, genetics, or veteran status.

About The Team

Atlantic Health System’s Environmental Service Department ensures the cleanest and safest health care environment for all team members, patients and visitors. Environmental Services is responsible for the cleaning and disinfection of common areas, outpatient areas, procedural areas, and patient rooms, including bathrooms, furniture, carpet/hard surface floors, vents, electronics and patient equipment. The team uses sanitizing processes of the highest quality required by multiple regulatory agencies. Often referred to as ‘the first line of defense against infection,’ the Environmental Service Department collaborates with the Atlantic Health System Infection Prevention and Quality Departments to ensure that there is consistent alignment at all sites.