Housekeeper

WVU Medicine

23d

About The Position

Performs a variety of environmental services to maintain assigned areas in a clean and orderly condition. The role cleans and maintains hospital spaces and equipment, removes trash, replenishes supplies, and follows safety and sanitation regulations. The employee must be able to work according to hospital operational needs and interact tactfully and harmoniously with guests. For facilities with specialty accreditation requirements, the employee completes annual required education related to those standards.

Requirements

• Ability to be scheduled for work based on hospital operational needs.
• Ability to deal tactfully and harmoniously with guests.
• Ability to understand assigned areas and the supplies and equipment needed for them.
• Ability to read and follow written work assignments.
• Physical ability to perform cleaning tasks such as mopping, reaching, and bending, and to operate floor equipment.
• Must meet the Department of Labor's Heavy Duty Standard.
• Ability to wear appropriate personal protective equipment for an extended period.
• Frequent exposure to communicable diseases, body fluids, and different types of cleaning chemicals.

Nice To Haves

• High school diploma or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Inspect assigned areas to ensure they are properly cleaned and in good repair, and report problems to the supervisor.
• Clean assigned areas, including patient rooms, exam rooms, public areas, toilets, procedure rooms, operating rooms, offices, and equipment, following established procedures.
• Remove trash from assigned areas.
• Replenish paper towels, toilet paper, and soap throughout assigned areas.
• Make beds in patient discharge rooms and on-call rooms as assigned, following established cleaning procedures.
• Maintain assigned equipment in clean, working condition and report problems and suggestions to the supervisor.
• Move equipment, furniture, and boxes; wash walls and spot-clean carpets as assigned.
• Follow safety and sanitation regulations.
• At facilities with specialty accreditation requirements, complete annual required education through methods such as online learning, training, in-services, or competency validation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed