Housekeeper - Full Time

Summit BHC•Port Matilda, PA

26d•Onsite

About The Position

The Housekeeper is responsible for maintaining a clean, healthy, safe, sanitary, and orderly client care environment across assigned areas. The role performs custodial and housekeeping tasks throughout the facility, including cleaning rooms and common areas, handling laundry and linens, disinfecting surfaces and equipment, maintaining supplies and equipment, and preparing rooms for facility functions. The Housekeeper advises a supervisor about environmental services equipment needs and repairs and ensures infectious-waste and confidential-disposal contractors perform as scheduled.

Requirements

Basic reading, writing, and speaking skills, and sufficient understanding of English to provide and receive instructions or directions.
CPR and de-escalation certification may be required; training is available upon hire and offered by the facility.
First aid may be required depending on state or facility requirements.

Nice To Haves

High school graduate or equivalent.
Previous housekeeping experience in a commercial, clinical, or healthcare environment.

Responsibilities

Perform cleaning and custodial tasks to maintain the facility’s sanitation and cleanliness.
Clean the facility daily, including sweeping, mopping, vacuuming, dusting, polishing fixtures, straightening areas, and cleaning bathrooms.
Clean rooms, baths, laboratories, offices, and halls using buffers, scrubbers, sweepers, and carpet-cleaning equipment as needed.
Wash bed frames, brush mattresses, and remake beds after client discharge when applicable.
Keep utility and storage rooms neat and orderly.
Operate commercial washers and dryers and launder soiled linens as directed.
Follow infection-control standards, transport soiled linen to storage, and distribute laundered articles and items.
Sweep, scrub, wax, and polish floors while taking care to prevent slips and falls during and after cleaning.
Clean rugs, carpets, upholstered furniture, and draperies; dust furniture and equipment.
Wash walls, ceilings, woodwork, windows, door panels, and sills.
Empty wastebaskets and transport trash and waste to the disposal area.
Disinfect rooms, furniture, fixtures, equipment, and supplies using appropriate processes and germicides.
Check the cleaning cart and linen supply closet daily and maintain adequate supplies for department or unit use.
Clean and store equipment and supplies properly after each shift.
Follow standard or universal precautions and environmental safety guidelines, including applicable Safety Data Sheet instructions.
Prepare rooms for meetings and arrange decorations and furniture for facility functions.
Advise a supervisor about environmental services equipment needs and repairs.
Ensure infectious-waste and confidential-disposal contractors perform as scheduled.