Housekeeper

St. Elizabeth Healthcare•Williamstown, KY

35d•Onsite

About The Position

St. Elizabeth Healthcare is hiring a Housekeeper to join their Grant Environmental Services Team. This position is responsible for cleaning and maintaining patient and non-patient areas within the hospital, demonstrating respect, dignity, kindness, and empathy in every interaction. The role involves performing daily cleaning procedures to ensure a clean and safe environment, completing detailed cleaning duties weekly or upon patient discharge/transfer, and cleaning/sanitizing restrooms to meet quality expectations. The Housekeeper will also remove trash to a central location, attend in-service programs and meetings, and complete required Net Learning modules. Adherence to safety procedures, including proper lifting techniques and reporting safety concerns, is essential. The role requires demonstrating knowledge and skills for providing services based on applicable principles of growth and development over the life span, and performing other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Ability to read and write
Ability to do heavy lifting up to 50 lbs.
No previous experience required

Responsibilities

Performs daily cleaning procedures in patient and non-patient areas in order to provide a clean and safe environment for the patients, visitors and staff of the hospital.
Completes detailed cleaning duties (high dusting, the cleaning of blinds, etc.) on a weekly basis or upon discharge/transfer of a patient in order to obtain high results on quality assurance inspections as well as patient satisfaction.
Cleans, sanitizes and deodorizes restrooms to ensure that they meet quality expectations.
Removes trash from the areas being cleaned to a central location to facilitate the removal of trash from the building.
Attends in-service programs, meetings and completes Net Learning modules as required by the hospital.
All associates shall follow the applicable safety steps required to perform their duties to ensure safety for themselves and their patients, and be in compliance with the hospital, state, and federal safety standards. Examples of such steps may include: performing proper safety procedures and precautions; reporting safety concerns and incidents; and using correct lifting techniques.
Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide services based on the applicable principles of growth and development over the life span of those they serve.
Performs other duties as assigned.