Hospitality Associate
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 interacts regularly with staff and patients and collaborates with the Environmental Services team. The role may also assist the Transport Department by moving patients and specimens throughout the hospital. The position is scheduled 2:30 PM–11:00 PM, EOH/EOW. A high school diploma or equivalent is preferred. Employees are expected to follow hospital policies and ethical standards and may perform essential job functions with reasonable accommodation as determined by the organization.
Requirements
- A high school diploma or equivalent is preferred.
- Ability to perform essential job-specific functions, unaided or with reasonable accommodation.
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 and place equipment in vehicles as necessary.
- 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 the Nursing Unit.
- Move wheeled equipment and supplies as instructed, including hospital beds, carts, cardiac and geriatric chairs; 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 needed 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 and observe and enforce hospital policies, rules, and regulations.
- Address and meet patients’ non-clinical needs as required.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
