KC- Housekeeper (Full-Time) Mon-Fri 8a-4:30p)

McCrite Plaza•Kansas City, KS

About The Position

The Housekeeper / Laundry position provides cleaning and laundry services to help ensure the facility is clean and sanitized. Duties include cleaning rooms and halls, making beds, changing linens, handling and laundering garments and linens, and maintaining housekeeping supplies and equipment. The role works in residents’ rooms and involves interaction with residents, families, visitors, volunteers, and staff. It requires following infection-control, safety, privacy, and facility procedures, and attending assigned or required meetings and in-service classes.

Requirements

Must be at least 16 years of age for a full-time position.
Must be free of communicable diseases.
Ability to understand, observe, and enforce infection-control procedures and facility safety policies.
Ability to recognize potential physical, chemical, and electrical hazards and take appropriate corrective action.
Ability to understand and enforce the Exposure Control Plan; the position involves occupational exposure risk to bloodborne pathogens and other infectious material.
Ability to safeguard the privacy of residents’ health information.
Ability to speak and read English and follow oral and written directions.
Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with the public, residents, and staff.
Ability to sit, stand, bend, stoop, stretch, crawl, crouch, kneel, balance, finger, grasp, push, pull, reach, and walk.
Ability to lift and carry weights in the 35-to-50-pound range and move objects vertically or horizontally.
Ability to exert sustained force to draw, drag, or tug objects.
Must remain alert to resident safety and be able to work around exposure to infectious diseases and conditions, including Hepatitis B viruses.

Nice To Haves

Prior experience in a similar working environment is preferred but not required.
Poised, professional demeanor and positive attitude.
Resourcefulness, initiative, and adaptability to changing workplace requirements and needs.

Responsibilities

Observe waste-disposal procedures, empty wastebaskets, and transport trash to disposal areas.
Use housekeeping equipment properly and report malfunctioning equipment, safety hazards, emergency situations, and areas in poor repair to the supervisor.
Keep storage areas and wheeled carts clean, tidy, and stocked; store chemicals in accordance with regulations.
Use wheeled carts to carry linens, towels, toiletries, and cleaning supplies.
Replenish housekeeping supplies, including soap, toilet paper, and paper towels, and make necessary linen changes.
Prevent the spread of infection through proper handling, storage, washing, and transport of garments and linens.
Operate washers, dryers, and the automated laundry solution dispensing system; select appropriate water temperatures and wash cycles, clean machine filters, and handle detergents and other solutions as directed.
Sort, remove, hang, fold, and stack garments and linens; distribute residents’ clothes accurately.
Return clean linen to closets and mobile racks to maintain adequate supplies and report garments or linens in poor repair to social services.
Work cooperatively with residents, families, volunteers, visitors, and staff.
Comply with federal, state, and company policies, procedures, and regulations.
Use computers and software to record, store, and analyze resident information, and operate copy, fax, and printer machines.
Attend staff meetings, in-service classes, and committee meetings as assigned or required.
Perform other related duties as directed by the Housekeeping Supervisor or administration.