Tower Lodge Care Center is a 60 bed skilled nursing facility presently seeking an expierenced Full-time  Director of Housekeeping, responsible forensuring the facility and resident areas are kept sanitized and clean while meeting the standards set forth for the Housekeeping Department. They preform daily rounds to provide the highest quality of service for a clean and safe environment for our residents and staff. Located in Wall, NJ we offer a pleasant working envirnonment, a competetive salary and generous benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, matched 401(k), and PTO Days. Interested and qualified applicants may submit resume online or stop by and fill out an application. 

Director of Housekeeping Job Summary: The Director of Housekeeping is responsible for planning,organizing, staffing,directing, coordinating,reporting,budgeting,and physical management of the housekeeping department's employees and equipment in a way that maintains cleanliness and order throughout the building including laundry services for both resident clothing and facility linens.

Duties and Repsonsibilities 

·Ensures compliance with government and accrediting agency standards and regulations pertaining to Housekeeping and Laundry. 

·Analyzes and evaluates all Housekeeping programs, policies and procedures. 

·With consent of the Administrator, revises policies, procedures and programs as needed to improve department functions and to ensure the department in meeting the needs of the residents, their families, the facility, staff and regulatory agencies. 

·Develops; implements and monitors systems for Housekeeping/Laundry documentation and record keeping necessary to maintain accountability and compliance with federal and state regulations and facility policies. 

·Participates in facility surveys (inspections) made by authorized government agencies. 

·Develops and maintains project schedules for daily, monthly, and other frequencies as required for cleaning and floor care needs.

·Attends administrative staff meetings and other facility meetings related to the provision of quality Housekeeping programs.

·With the other department heads, plans and coordinates employee safety and security activities, keeping abreast of all local, City, State and Federal guidelines concerning department activities.

·Assists the Infection Control Coordinator in identifying, evaluating, and classifying routine and job-related Housekeeping functions to ensure that tasks involving the potential exposure to blood/body fluids are properly identified and recorded. 

·Makes daily rounds and record findings to assure that housekeeping personnel are performing required duties and to assure that appropriate housekeeping procedures are being rendered to meet the needs of the facility. 

·Maintains a productive working relationship with other department supervisors and coordinates housekeeping/laundry services to assure that care and services can be performed without interruption. 

·Develops, maintains, and implements infection control and universal precautions, policies and procedures to assure that the sanitary environment is maintained at all times and that isolation techniques are followed by all Housekeeping personnel. 

·Adheres to established budget parameters.

·Delegates a responsible staff member to act on your behalf when you are absent, or as otherwise needed. 

· Reviews and checks competence of housekeeping personnel and make necessary adjustments/corrections as required or that may become necessary. 

· Establishes an orientation program for new Housekeeping/Laundry staff in order to facilitate their assimilation into the work place within a reasonable time span and to ensure that each staff member understands his/her role responsibilities and standards of performances

·Supervises daily operations so that all standards are met. 

·Completes written performances evaluations on the staff following probation and thereafter annually and when otherwise necessitated 

·Ensures that Housekeeping/Laundry personnel follow established safety regulations in the use of equipment and supplies at all times 

·Assumes the administrative authority, responsibility, and accountability of directing the Housekeeping Department. 

·Ensures that Housekeeping schedules are followed as outlined for respective shift or area.

·Coordinates daily Housekeeping services with nursing services when performing routine assignment in resident living areas. 

·Maintains general facility grounds and equipment in a safe, clean and orderly environment.

·Keeps Work area(s) free of hazardous conditions i.e. grease/oil, spills, excess supplies, equipment etc; to ensure that all established safety rules/regulations are followed at all times.

·Ensures that established infection control and universal precaution practices are maintained when performing Housekeeping procedures. 

·Ensures that an adequate supply of housekeeping supplies is maintained in utility/janitorial closets to perform daily tasks. 

·Monitors housekeeping procedures to ensure that supplies are used in an efficient manner to avoid waste. 

Other related duties and activities as may become necessary or as directed by the Administrator or designee.