Housekeeper Days

Trinity Health • Mason City, IA

8d • Onsite

About The Position

The Housekeeper provides a clean and safe environment for hospital staff, visitors, and patients and enhances the appearance of the facility through consistent floor care. The role disinfects patient treatment and invasive care areas, staff areas, and visitor areas to support infection prevention, patient safety, environmental-of-care compliance, and facility appearance. It also includes handling waste and soiled linen, preparing patient and exam rooms, cleaning renovated or newly constructed spaces, and completing assigned project work. The Housekeeper interacts with patients and visitors to provide directions, hospital information, guest room services, and general hospitality. The schedule is described as varied, with evenings also listed; the posting separately identifies the shift as day shift.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent preferred.
• Maintain confidentiality regarding patients, visitors, and staff.
• Demonstrate an accepting, sensitive, and caring attitude toward patients, visitors, and staff.
• Maintain professional relationships and convey relevant information to other members of the health care team.
• Initiate communication with peers about task priorities.
• Follow written and verbal instructions and communicate by telephone in English.
• Have basic computer skills, including email, mandatory e-learning, schedule review, policies and procedures, and employee engagement surveys.
• Maintain knowledge of cleaning and disinfecting chemicals; on-the-job training is provided.
• Comply with hospital and department safety policies and procedures.
• Be able to work around bloodborne pathogens, blood, and body fluids while using personal protective equipment.
• Maintain departmental policies and procedures, objectives, quality assurance, safety, environmental, and infection-control standards.

Nice To Haves

• Self-motivation is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Disinfect patient treatment and invasive care areas, as well as staff and visitor areas, according to established policies and procedures.
• Collect, store, and dispose of general medical, biohazard, pharmaceutical, chemotherapy, and sharps waste, and handle soiled linen according to established policies and procedures.
• Clean remodeled or newly constructed areas and prepare them for occupancy.
• Complete project work such as changing cubicle curtains, construction cleanup, floor refinishing, carpet cleaning, wall washing, refrigerator cleaning, and other assigned projects.
• Prepare patient rooms, exam rooms, and patient support areas for new patients, including disinfection, bed making, floor care, and replenishment of supplies.
• Interact verbally with patients and visitors to provide directions, hospital information, guest room services, and general hospitality.
• Maintain confidentiality and professional relationships, communicate relevant information to the health care team, and coordinate task priorities with peers.
• Follow hospital and department safety policies, procedures, and infection-control standards.

Benefits

• Education assistance.
• Medical, dental, vision, and other benefits effective on Day 1 for positions of 16 hours per week or greater.
• Competitive wages, including weekend and night differentials.
• Generous paid time off program.
• Retirement savings program with employer match starting on Day 1.

What This Job Offers

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