Senior Housekeeping – Responsibilities
SENIOR HOUSEKEEPING SUPERVISOR’S GUIDE
Duties and responsibilities according to the job description from the department:
- supervision of staff
- Stocktaking
- Responsibility for the welfare of boarders
- Neatness and cleanliness in the hostel
- Ensure the learners are on time for school
- That learners are in proper, clean and ironed uniforms.
Responsibilities that need to be done but not mentioned by department:
- Has a responsibility to take care of disabled learners after school and at night
- Assist young disabled learners with feeding, bath, toilet training, grooming and dressing
- Maintain safety in the hostel in terms of drugs, sexual abuse, physical abuse and general safety and cleanliness
- Apply basic communication skills in interacting with the children
- Supply and sort out clean linen and clothes for learners
- Observe children all the time and take care of them when they are sick
- Observe children at all times during meal times. Check for choking, fair quantities served per boarder
- Staff to ensure they eat before their duty or when another staff member supervises the children. g. prep.
- Marking of all children’s clothing
- Promote and uphold the rights of children
- Maintain neatness and cleanliness in the hostel
- Promote welfare of learners
- Make sure that learners are on time for school and are in proper clean and ironed Uniform
- See to it that during meal time food is dished for learners
- Escort learners to hospital/clinic and town
- Keep registers and files for all learners under your care
- Assist learners with mobility and orientation
- Reception of parents and visitors to the hostel
- Transport the children to school when necessary
- Correspondence with the parents
- Staff meetings
- Committee Meetings
- Meetings with parents
- Sign off the register
- Leave forms
- Discipline of the staff
- Discipline of the children
- Supervision of prep teachers