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Req #: 236788

Department: UW MEDICAL CENTER - NORTHWEST - ENVIRONMENTAL SVCS

Posting Date: 07/17/2024

Closing Info: Open Until Filled

Salary: $5,267 - $7,087 per month

Shift: Evening Shift

Notes: As an employee you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For detailed information on Benefits for this position, click here. (https://hr.uw.edu/benefits/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/02/benefits-summary-classified-staff-greater-than-half-time-20230701_a11y.pdf)

UW Medical Center - Northwest has an outstanding opportunity to hire a CUSTODIAN SUPERVISOR .

WORK SCHEDULE

• 40 hours per week, Evening Shift POSITION HIGHTLIGHTS The incumbent will supervise the Environmental Services department by organizing workflow, managing personnel and supplies to ensure efficient functioning and cost effectiveness of the department, and maintaining custodial standards. PRIMARY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Ensures that custodial staff consistently perform work in an effective, safe, and technically correct manner

• Forms, manages, and maintains an effective team of employees; orients, trains, develops skills, and manages performance

• Presents in-service education programs, monitors compliance with all department and hospital procedures, facilitates transfer of information at shift change to ensure seamless continuation of service

• Identifies staffing needs and proactively takes appropriate action; flexes staffing to accommodate workload and priority fluctuations, prepares employee schedules and prioritizes daily work activities, assigns and checks work, acts as expert technical resource and assists staff with problems and questions

• Makes rounds of patient care units, public and office areas to evaluate environmental services operations and state of the environment, monitors quality control data, and takes prompt action when a problem occurs

• Performs custodial duties during short staffing or to facilitate completion of special projects

• Inventories and orders supplies, facilitates distribution of supplies and equipment to staff, assures that equipment is properly cleaned, maintained, repaired and in safe working order, troubleshoots and resolves equipment problems, and assists with linen service management as needed

• Serves as liaison to other departments, serves as a member of hospital committees, task forces, and working groups

• Assists department manager to establish and update standards, procedures, and policies, including disaster procedures REQUIRED POSITION QUALIFICATIONS

• Two to four years’ experience supervising or directing others in large-scale custodial, janitorial, general or building maintenance work ABOUT UW MEDICAL CENTER-NORTHWEST UW Medical Center is an acute care hospital located in Seattle with two campuses: Montlake and Northwest. As the No. 1 hospital in Seattle and Washington State since 2012 (U.S. News & World Report) and nationally ranked in six specialties, UW Medical Center prides itself on compassionate patient care as well as its pioneering medical advances.The UW Medical Center–Northwest campus offers emergency and inpatient and outpatient medical, surgical, and therapeutic care. It is located in north Seattle on a beautiful, easy-to-access 44-acre campus that includes the neighboring Northwest Outpatient Medical Center and Specialty Care Meridian Pavilion. Teamwork. Community. Opportunity. Become part of our team. Join our mission to make life healthier for everyone in our community. ABOUT UW MEDICINE – WHERE YOUR IMPACT GOES FURTHER UW Medicine is Washington’s only health system that includes a top-rated medical school and an internationally recognized research center. UW Medicine’s mission is to improve the health of the publicly advancing medical knowledge, providing outstanding primary and specialty care to the people of the region, and preparing tomorrow’s physicians, scientists and other health professionals.All across UW Medicine, our employees collaborate to perform the highest quality work with integrity and compassion and to create a respectful, welcoming environment where every patient, family, student and colleague is valued and honored. Nearly 29,000 healthcare professionals, researchers, and educators work in the UW Medicine family of organizations that includes: Harborview Medical Center, UW Medical Center - Montlake, UW Medical Center - Northwest, Valley Medical Center, UW Medicine Primary Care, UW Physicians, UW School of Medicine, and Airlift Northwest. Become part of our team. (https://www.uwmedicine.org/jobs) Join our mission to make life healthier for everyone in our community.

University of Washington is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.