Housekeeping Supervisor

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Oversee housekeeping across patient rooms, wards, ICUs, operating theatres, emergency and outpatient areas, corridors, and other facilities.
• Ensure cleaning, disinfection, and sanitization follow infection-prevention procedures.
• Monitor staff performance, attendance, grooming, discipline, and duty schedules; prepare rosters and allocate assignments across shifts.
• Ensure correct use of cleaning chemicals, disinfectants, equipment, and PPE.
• Train staff on cleaning protocols, color coding, hand hygiene, waste segregation, and infection control.
• Oversee segregation, collection, and disposal of general, infectious, and other healthcare waste.
• Conduct inspections and cleaning audits against hygiene and quality standards.
• Coordinate with nursing, infection control, biomedical waste handlers, and facilities teams.
• Handle urgent cleaning, spills, isolation-room requests, and emergencies using approved safety procedures.
• Maintain housekeeping records, monitor supplies and equipment, investigate complaints, and implement corrective actions.

Qualifications and experience

• At least 3–5 years of housekeeping experience, preferably in a hospital or healthcare facility.
• Previous experience supervising housekeeping teams in a hospital environment is essential.
• Knowledge of healthcare cleaning and disinfection, infection prevention and control, and healthcare waste segregation.
• Familiarity with cleaning schedules, color-coding systems, PPE, and safe chemical handling.
• Basic computer skills and experience maintaining reports and checklists.
• Good communication, leadership, coordination, and problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of hospital quality and safety standards is an advantage.

Key competencies

• Team supervision and workforce management.
• Hospital hygiene and infection-control awareness.
• Attention to detail and quality inspection.
• Time management and shift coordination.
• Complaint handling and conflict resolution.
• Health, safety, and environmental awareness.
• Reporting and documentation.

Pay

• AED 2,500–3,000 per month.

Work location

• Work location is in person.