Environmental Svcs Area Mgr (HS)

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Job Title:

Environmental Svcs Area Mgr (HS)

Department:

University Hospital | Environmental Services

The EVS Manager oversees plans, organizes, manages and evaluates operations for a designated area(s) on a 24-hour basis as needed; enhances and improves the operations of the unit to support the Medical Center’s mission, vision and values; evaluates and identifies achievements and problems in meeting goals; manages, guides, coaches, and evaluates the work performance of environmental services staff in a designated area; promotes and ensures ongoing collaboration with other patient care departments and areas that relate directly or indirectly to patient care operations and services; administers and manages unit budget plans; identifies, plans and initiates cost saving initiatives; identifies opportunities for improvement in patient care and organizational processes; assumes leadership in identifying and correcting factors contributing to problematic outcomes

Additional Information:

Duties and Responsibilities

75% of the time:

Administrative & Management

• Manages and oversees the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of the direct care activities for assigned staff. 
• Demonstrates effective communication, problem solving, negotiating, and conflict resolution skills; promotes inter-professional collaboration and teamwork. 
• Demonstrates a management style based on forming positive relationships, providing advocacy and vision, emotional intelligence, effective communication, staff empowerment and shared decision making.
• Leads and promotes a healthy work environment /culture through quality leadership, access to resources (staff and supplies), shared decision making, ongoing professional development opportunities, teamwork, and collaboration.
• Interviews, selects, hires, and mentors’ staff; oversees, leads guides, coaches, and evaluates the work performance of EVS staff in a designated area in collaboration with the assistant director.
• Promotes and ensures ongoing collaboration with other patient care departments and areas that relate directly or indirectly to patient care operations and are have direct impacts with EVS cleaning solutions.
• Conducts monthly communication forums such as staff meetings and daily staff huddles.   Demonstrates effective problem solving, negotiating, and conflict resolution skills. Promotes Diversity, cultural competence, and generational diversity.
• Provides comprehensive oversight of new hires throughout the onboarding and training processes
• Provides the initial department assessment, evaluating the new hire’s willingness and ability to learn and demonstrate competencies to perform the assigned tasks.
• Collaborates with Human Resources and department managers to ensure successful organizational and departmental orientation as well as technical training of assigned job responsibilities consistent with best practice.
• Proactively addresses any improvement opportunities or concerns. Leads or participates in performance improvement projects and process improvement efforts.
• Researches, coordinates and implements core training programs and systems (cleaning and disinfection practices, protocols, auditing tools, competencies, job aides, in-services, skills labs, etc.). Develops and utilizes appropriate evaluation systems to measure effectiveness of educational activities and uses feedback to adjust programs ac