Housekeeping Aide
About The Position
This position is responsible for maintaining established standards for general cleaning, which include mopping, vacuuming, disinfecting, trash removal, and changing linens. The role involves documenting assignment completion and safety hazards, stocking supplies, and participating in staff and guest relations. Essential functions include cleaning patient rooms and changing linen upon discharge, dusting and scrubbing patient rooms, ancillary areas, operating rooms, and lounges. The aide also cleans bath and shower areas, changes curtains as needed, removes trash from the building, mops and washes floors and walls, and responds to emergency calls for unplanned clean-ups. Further duties involve vacuuming floors, stocking clean and soiled utility rooms, isolation cupboards, carts, and dispensers, replenishing soap and paper supplies, removing soiled linen from hampers, cleaning equipment and carts for the following shift, and restocking the housekeeping closet. The role requires completing daily work sheets, reporting safety hazards and/or needed repairs, cleaning offices, assisting in training new staff, performing other department-related duties as assigned, and collecting medical and pharmaceutical waste.
Requirements
- Ability to read and write
Nice To Haves
- Previous experience working in a healthcare Housekeeping Department
Responsibilities
- Maintains standards established for general cleaning, which include mopping, vacuuming, disinfecting, trash removal and changing linens
- Documents assignments completion and safety hazards
- Stocks supplies
- Participates in staff and guest relations
- Attends meetings
- Cleans room and changes linen in patient areas upon discharge
- Dusts and scrubs patient rooms, ancillary areas, operating rooms, lounges
- Cleans bath and shower area
- Changes curtains as needed
- Removes trash from building
- Mops floors
- Washes walls
- Responds to emergency calls for unplanned clean-ups
- Vacuums floors
- Stocks clean and soiled utility rooms, isolation cupboards, carts and dispensers
- Replenishes soap and paper supplies
- Removes soiled linen from hampers
- Cleans equipment and cart for following shift and restocks housekeeping closet
- Completes daily work sheets, reports safety hazards and/or needed repairs
- Cleans offices
- Assists in training new staff
- Performs other department related duties as assigned
- Collects medical waste and pharmaceutical waste
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
