Housekeeper

Benchmark Senior Living • New London, CT

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About The Position

The Housekeeper is responsible for keeping the community clean and safe for residents, staff, and visitors. The role includes laundering towels, bed linens, and residents’ personal laundry, as well as cleaning resident apartments. The Housekeeper maintains common areas, public restrooms, vacant units, laundry and housekeeping areas, carts, and cleaning supplies according to established standards and supervisor instructions. The position also involves following chemical-use and biohazardous-waste handling practices and responding appropriately to chemical misuse.

Requirements

• Ability to perform the listed housekeeping and laundry duties.
• Ability to follow chemical safety instructions and emergency procedures.
• Knowledge of proper biohazardous-waste handling practices.

Responsibilities

• Keep the community clean and safe for residents, staff, and visitors.
• Maintain a clean and orderly laundry room and store chemicals according to product or supervisor instructions.
• Follow standards for using cleaning chemicals and understand and follow emergency procedures for accidental chemical misuse.
• Handle biohazardous waste according to proper practices.
• Thoroughly clean assigned resident apartments on the supervisor’s schedule.
• Clean bathrooms, including toilets, sinks, bathtubs, countertops, mirrors, and floors.
• Vacuum exposed areas completely, including edges.
• Empty and rinse wastebaskets when necessary.
• Clean kitchen areas, including counters and floors.
• Wash the inside of windows as needed.
• Dust uncluttered flat surfaces while taking care of residents’ belongings.
• Clean common areas, including elevators, halls, landings, stairs, resident activity areas, lobbies, and model units, as well as other scheduled or requested flat surfaces.
• Check and touch up vacant units according to the assigned schedule.
• Keep housekeeping and laundry carts clean and orderly.
• Notify the supervisor when supplies are running low and need to be reordered.
• Maintain clean public restrooms.
• Wash and dry all laundry, including residents’ personal laundry, using products appropriate to the wash.
• Fold linen and return it to the appropriate location.

What This Job Offers

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