Vermont Rural Healthcare Support Services Leadership Opportunities
About The Position
Rural Staffing Services (RSS) partners with rural hospitals, clinics, community health centers, long-term care organizations, and healthcare systems throughout Vermont to identify experienced leaders for operational and support services roles. These roles are crucial for ensuring rural healthcare organizations run safely and effectively. RSS is currently seeking professionals interested in leadership opportunities in areas such as facilities, environmental services, food and nutrition, supply chain, materials management, security, and plant operations. These positions can be found in various rural healthcare settings including Critical Access Hospitals, Rural Health Clinics, Federally Qualified Health Centers, community hospitals, long-term care organizations, and integrated rural healthcare systems. Support services leaders play a vital, though often behind-the-scenes, role in patient care by ensuring facilities are safe, clean, prepared, supplied, and maintained. In rural settings, these leaders often manage broad responsibilities, smaller teams, limited resources, and local vendor relationships, requiring them to be practical, dependable, collaborative, and committed to a safe and supportive environment.
Requirements
- Progressive experience in healthcare facilities, environmental services, food and nutrition, supply chain, materials management, security, safety, or another support-services area
- Previous leadership experience as a director, manager, supervisor, or comparable professional
- Strong knowledge of the regulations, safety standards, and operational requirements relevant to the position
- Experience managing teams, budgets, vendors, inventory, equipment, or facilities
- The ability to prioritize competing needs and respond calmly to operational challenges
- Strong communication, organization, and problem-solving skills
- Experience working collaboratively with clinical and administrative departments
- Experience within rural hospitals, Critical Access Hospitals, FQHCs, long-term care organizations, or community healthcare settings
- Relevant education, certification, or technical credentials based on the position
- A visible, dependable, and service-focused leadership style
Nice To Haves
- Credentials related to facilities management, safety, emergency preparedness, environmental services, food service, supply chain, or another operational specialty
Responsibilities
- Providing operational leadership for facilities, environmental services, dietary, supply chain, security, or related departments
- Maintaining safe, clean, functional, and welcoming healthcare environments
- Managing preventive maintenance, repairs, utilities, infrastructure, and building systems
- Supporting life-safety, emergency preparedness, and regulatory readiness
- Leading environmental services, infection-prevention support, and sanitation standards
- Overseeing food service, nutrition operations, and applicable safety requirements
- Managing purchasing, inventory, supplies, equipment, and vendor relationships
- Supporting capital planning, renovations, construction, and equipment replacement
- Managing department budgets, staffing, scheduling, and productivity
- Recruiting, training, developing, and supporting employees
- Developing policies, procedures, workflows, and performance standards
- Preparing for inspections, surveys, audits, and emergency exercises
- Collaborating with clinical, administrative, quality, infection prevention, and executive leaders
- Helping ensure essential services remain dependable during emergencies or operational disruptions
- Identifying practical ways to improve efficiency, safety, and service quality
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
