Housekeeping & Laundry Aide

GOOD NEIGHBOR SOCIETY•Manchester, IA

9d•Onsite

About The Position

Performs a variety of general laundry and housekeeping/cleaning duties to provide quality laundry service and to maintain the nursing center in a sanitary, attractive, and orderly condition. This role involves ensuring resident rights are upheld, maintaining safety and sanitation standards, and participating in staff development. The position requires adherence to established policies and procedures to create a safe and caring environment.

Requirements

Ability to read and understand directions.
Works in a safety-conscious manner, which ensures that safe work practices are used in order not to pose a risk to self or others in the workplace.
Reports any safely violations or hazards to supervisor.
Complies with company policies and procedures and local, state, and federal regulations.
Adheres to policy on Drug-Free Workplace.
Interacts in a tactful, diplomatic, and humanistic manner with residents, families, visitors, and co-workers to provide a safe, efficient, and therapeutically effective caring environment which ensures the self-respect, personal dignity, rights and physical safety of each resident and facility guest.
Maintains a dependable attendance record and adheres to standards of cleanliness, grooming, hygiene, and dress code.
Takes positive action to ensure equal opportunity in the conduct of all business activities without regard to race, color, religion, sex/gender, age, national origin, disability, citizenship, veteran status or any other legal protected category.

Nice To Haves

High School Diploma or equivalent preferred.
Previous housekeeping/laundry experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Inventories clothing and personal items brought in with new residents and marks with proper identification.
Picks up brutes with soiled linen form each wing throughout shift.
Prepares articles for washing by unbuttoning, turning pockets out, and unrolling sleeves.
Sorts soiled laundry into appropriate loads for washing.
Washes contaminated lines separately from other linens.
Follows standard washing procedures to add soap solution, bluing, and other chemicals to wash.
Dries linens and residents’ clothing in dryer.
Presses garments.
Checks condition of linens for worn spots or tears.
Folds linen and returns sufficient amount of linen to clean linen room on each wing for needs of day.
Distributes laundry to appropriate resident.
Disposes of unmarked clothing left in laundry.
Maintains equipment used in performing duties.
Cleans washers and dryers, dryer lint filters, and soap dispensers at end or near end of shift.
Brushes spillage from floor into drain.
Cleans brutes and replaces liners daily as assigned.
Follows cleaning schedule as outlined for housekeeping department to clean offices, handicap and visitors’ restrooms, activity room, kitchen restroom, service entrance and therapy room, entrances and exits, utility areas, closets, lounges, lobbies, halls, etc.
Performs emergency housekeeping.
Cleans, dusts, washes and disinfects all fixtures, floors, and walls, doors and ceilings, as directed.
Scours and polishes water fountains, sinks, mirrors, glass panels in door and partitions, brass, and movable and stationary furnishings and fixtures.
Changes slip covers, scarves, doilies, etc. when soiled and arranges furniture and equipment in an orderly fashion.
Cleans ledges, shelves, vents, windows, window sills, etc.
Removes and re-hangs curtains, drapes, and dividers for cleaning, when needed.
Replenishes supply of soap and towels in appropriate receptacles.
Empties and cleans wastebaskets.
Works jointly with maintenance personnel to service floors, all patient rooms, baths, lounges, nurses’ stations, and offices as assigned.
Performs terminal cleaning duties according to established procedure in patient rooms when patient has been discharged or transferred and prepare rooms for new occupants.
Performs cleaning duties in isolated units when patient is transferred according to established procedures (see Nursing Procedure manual).
Vacuums and shampoos carpeting and rugs.
Maintains order in supply room by cleaning lockers and equipment and arranging supplies.
Maintains equipment used in performing housekeeping duties.
Performs any miscellaneous work assignments as may be required.
Knows and respects patient rights.
Ensures all protected health information is kept confidential.
Reports all complaints made by patients to supervisor.
Reports all allegations of resident abuse, neglect and/or misappropriation of patient properly.
Follows established safety policies and procedures.
Observes safety needs of patient as indicated in care plan.
Wears and/or uses safety equipment and supplies when indicated and properly trained to use.
Demonstrates job-specific knowledge of fire and disaster preparedness during drills or actual situations.
Attends and participates in scheduled in-service training, educational classes and meetings, including safety committee.
Participates in QAA process.