Housekeeper/Activities Coordinator

Fair Oaks•Hayward, CA

3d•Onsite

About The Position

The Housekeeping and Activities Coordinator / Mental Health Worker maintains a clean, sanitary, orderly, safe, and welcoming residential healthcare environment; plans, leads, and actively participates in meaningful individual and group activities; and supports a respectful, recovery-oriented behavioral-health milieu for adults and older adults with chronic medical conditions and co-occurring psychiatric diagnoses. A central expectation is to make the facility feel cared for and lived-in rather than institutional by combining thorough environmental cleanliness with warm, person-centered engagement so residents feel known, respected, emotionally safe, and motivated to participate in daily life.

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalent.
Certificate of completion of a minimum 36-hour California Department of Public Health-approved Activity Program Leader course (or accepted equivalent) before independent appointment as Activities Coordinator.
Current BLS/CPR and First Aid certification.
Successful background clearance, health/TB screening, and other facility employment requirements.
Ability to perform both housekeeping and hands-on resident activities.

Nice To Haves

Experience in healthcare housekeeping, residential services, activities, behavioral health, or geriatrics.
Valid California driver’s license and insurability when transportation is required.

Responsibilities

Completes assigned cleaning schedules for resident rooms, bathrooms, common areas, and activity spaces.
Disinfects high-touch surfaces, maintains floors, cleans bathrooms, makes beds, performs enhanced cleaning after discharges or isolation, and reports maintenance or safety concerns promptly.
Keeps carts, closets, and chemicals secured and survey-ready.
Handles laundry, linen, and waste according to infection-prevention and privacy standards.
Monitors inventory of linens, cleaning products, PPE, and activity supplies and reports shortages.
Follows standard and transmission-based precautions, uses only facility-approved products correctly, maintains proper PPE, and supports outbreak response and exposure-control procedures.
Creates a warm, home-like atmosphere.
Greets residents by name, learns their interests and preferences, invites participation without pressure, and uses ordinary housekeeping routines to support engagement when appropriate.
Plans, prepares, leads, and actively participates in purposeful individual and group activities (arts, crafts, games, music, exercise, recovery-oriented, cultural, and community-based).
Models participation, adapts activities for resident abilities, secures materials, and completes thorough cleanup.
Does not represent recreational activities as clinical therapy.
Maintains nonclinical activity-interest profiles, develops balanced calendars with meaningful choices, documents participation accurately, and recommends program improvements to the Administrator.
Observes and objectively documents mood, behavior, and participation.
Uses trauma-informed, recovery-oriented communication and approved de-escalation techniques.
Immediately reports safety concerns to licensed staff.
Does not independently diagnose, assess suicide risk, provide psychotherapy, or modify treatment.
Completes safety rounds and location checks.
Maintains awareness of environmental and interpersonal risks.
Follows resident-rights, confidentiality, abuse-reporting, and emergency procedures.
Does not independently restrict movement or initiate clinical interventions.
Adapts activities and approaches for physical, cognitive, sensory, and psychiatric needs while promoting autonomy, dignity, and the highest attainable social and emotional functioning.
Prepares welcoming environments, orients new residents, contributes objective participation information to interdisciplinary meetings, and supports approved outings when authorized.
Provides factual handoffs, completes required logs and records accurately, participates in QAPI and survey readiness, and maintains confidentiality.