Hospitality Associate

Kent Hospital • Warwick, RI

4d • Onsite

About The Position

The Hospitality Associate maintains a clean, safe, orderly, and attractive environment throughout hospital departments, patient areas, offices, corridors, and other hospital-controlled areas, following hospital cleaning and disinfection standards. Duties include removing waste and linen, completing discharge and daily room cleaning, and terminally cleaning operating rooms. The position involves regular interaction with patients and staff and collaboration with the Environmental Services Department. The associate may also assist the Transport Department by moving patients and specimens throughout the hospital.

This position is scheduled Monday through Friday, 10:30 PM to 7:00 AM, full time, EOH/EOW.

Requirements

• A high school diploma or equivalent is preferred.
• Able to perform essential job-specific functions, unaided or with reasonable accommodation as determined by the organization.

Nice To Haves

• High school diploma or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Clean patient rooms and maintain nursing unit areas, including supporting bed-making for unoccupied beds, disposing of needle boxes, emptying laundry hampers, and keeping corridors unobstructed.
• Transport patients by wheelchair, stretcher, or bed within the hospital.
• Assist patients into and out of automobiles according to established procedures when discharging or transporting them, and place equipment in vehicles as needed.
• Transport deceased patients to the Hospital Morgue as required.
• Deliver laboratory specimens, x-rays, lab reports, telephone requests, stockroom requisitions, and other items and reports needed to support nursing units.
• Move equipment on wheels, such as hospital beds, carts, cardiac and geriatric chairs, and supplies, as instructed; transport medical equipment to patient discharge locations.
• Wash and clean nursing unit transport and medical equipment, and keep the area, equipment, and supplies neat, orderly, and safe.
• Alert appropriate personnel about broken equipment or required maintenance.
• Clean, wash, mop, vacuum, and disinfect discharge rooms for new admissions.
• Maintain inventory and prepare orders for non-par stock items on the nursing unit.
• Assist in training new employees in day-to-day procedures, observing and enforcing hospital policies, rules, and regulations.
• Address and meet patients’ non-clinical needs as required.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: High school or GED