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 associate regularly interacts with staff and patients and collaborates with Environmental Services colleagues. The position may also assist the Transport Department by moving patients and specimens throughout the hospital. The associate maintains nursing-unit areas and equipment, helps meet patients’ non-clinical needs, and supports unit operations by delivering items and maintaining inventory. The role also includes helping train new employees and following hospital policies, rules, regulations, and ethical standards.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

A high school diploma or equivalent.

Responsibilities

Clean patient rooms and maintain nursing-unit areas, including making 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 when discharging or transporting them, place equipment in vehicles as needed, and transport deceased patients to the Hospital Morgue when required.
Deliver laboratory specimens, x-rays, lab reports, telephone requests, stockroom requisitions, and other items and reports needed to support the nursing unit.
Move wheeled equipment and supplies as instructed, including hospital beds, carts, cardiac chairs, and geriatric chairs; transport medical equipment to patient discharge locations.
Wash and clean nursing-unit transport and medical equipment, and maintain areas, equipment, and supplies in a neat, orderly, and safe condition.
Alert appropriate personnel about broken equipment or maintenance needs.
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 while observing and enforcing hospital policies, rules, and regulations.
Address and meet patients’ non-clinical needs as required.
Perform other duties as assigned.