Housekeeper

Position: Housekeeper

Shift: 11pm - 7am

Summary/Objective:

The housekeeper maintains a clean working environment for all patients, visitor, and staff, ensuring all areas are safe and clean.

Essential Functions:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential function.

1. Cleans and sanitizes bathrooms.
2. Cleans, mops, washes, buffs, and vacuums floors.
3. Empties trash receptacles and wipes out bins before replacing bag.
4. Maintains outside walk areas, including sweeping debris and washing walkways.
5. Cleans and polishes fixtures.
6. Cleans windows and doors.
7. Dusts and vacuums furniture.
8. Sometimes using ladders, dusts and washes walls, cleans ceilings and dusts and polishes light fixtures.
9. Washes blinds.
10. Moves cabinets, boxes, furniture, crates, and equipment to clean areas. May remove stains from such surfaces as rugs, drapes, walls, and floors using chemicals and cleaning solutions.
11. Cleans and dusts baseboards, pictures, and signs.
12. Cleans patient rooms using prescribed infection control methods.
13. Transport soiled linen to laundry.
14. Assist with laundry; washing, drying, folding, and delivering laundry to required departments.
15. Ability to drive hospital owned vehicle in order to transport linen, supplies, trash, and recycling materials to appropriate locations outside of hospital buildings.
16. Cooperates with distribution of resources and helps to use and maintain resources within prescribed inventory levels.
17. Keeps cleaning carts cleaned and appropriately stocked.
18. Performs all job responsibilities in accordance with prescribed safety and infection control procedures; including hand washing, use of disposable gloves where indicated and proper disposal of soiled materials.

Competencies:

1. Customer/Patient Focus.
2. Ethical conduct.
   
3. Time Management.
4. Flexibility
5. Thoroughness
6. Personal Effectiveness/Credibility.
7. Stress Management/Composure.
8. Teamwork Orientation.
9. Technical Capacity.

Supervisory Responsibility:

This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Work Environment:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to fumes, chemicals, airborne particles, and some mechanical equipment. The employee is occasionally exposed to a variety of patient conditions and elements. The noise level is moderate to quiet.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear.

This position is very active and requires standing, pulling, pushing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, and climbing all day. The employee must frequently lift or move objects and patients weighing over 50 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

The employee will be required to wear PPE while completing certain tasks/job duties.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work:

This is a part time position in a health care facility open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Rotating shifts as well as holiday and weekend work during inclement weather will be required; working approximately eight (8) hour shifts.

Travel:

No travel is expected for this position.

Required Education and Experience:

1. Prefer High School diploma or GED but not required.

Preferred Eligibility Requirements:

1. Health care industry experience preferred.

Other Duties:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee of the job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.