Housekeeping Staff

Ensign Services•Decaturville, TN

About The Position

Housekeeping Staff coordinate daily housekeeping services with nursing services and perform routine and assigned cleaning throughout the facility, including resident rooms, recreational areas, bathrooms, hallways, stairways, and elevators. Duties include cleaning furnishings and fixtures, windows and mirrors, floors, carpets, walls, and ceilings; handling trash and infectious waste; and following established isolation and infection-control procedures. Staff must keep work areas and equipment clean and properly stored, use appropriate cleaning and disinfecting solutions, and set up safety signs when cleaning floors. The role involves working in all areas of the facility and interacting with residents, personnel, visitors, and others. Employees must respect residents’ rights and privacy, including knocking before entering rooms, and communicate with housekeeping and other department personnel. The work may involve interruptions, exposure to infectious waste, hazardous chemicals, dust, disinfectants, tobacco smoke, and other workplace hazards. Employees may need to work beyond normal hours, weekends, and holidays; cover other shifts or positions; and respond to emergency call-backs. Attendance and participation in continuing education programs are expected. Other duties may be assigned.

Responsibilities

Coordinate daily housekeeping services with nursing services when performing routine cleaning assignments in resident living and recreational areas.
Perform assigned day-to-day housekeeping functions throughout the facility.
Empty and sanitize ash trays daily, placing contents in appropriate metal containers with self-closing covers.
Clean and polish furnishings, fixtures, ledges, and room heating and cooling units.
Clean, wash, sanitize, and polish bathroom fixtures and remove water marks.
Clean windows and mirrors in resident rooms, recreational areas, bathrooms, and entrance and exit ways.
Clean floors by sweeping, dusting, mopping, stripping, waxing, buffing, and disinfecting, and set up appropriate caution and safety signs beforehand.
Clean carpets by vacuuming, shampooing, deodorizing, and disinfecting.
Clean walls and ceilings by washing, wiping, dusting, spot cleaning, disinfecting, and deodorizing.
Remove dirt, dust, grease, and film from surfaces using proper cleaning and disinfecting solutions.
Clean hallways, stairways, and elevators.
Dispose of waste and trash in proper containers and reline receptacles with plastic liners.
Clean vacant rooms as assigned.
Keep work areas clean and store equipment, tools, and supplies properly, including before breaks, meals, and the end of the workday.
Perform isolation cleaning in accordance with established infection-control procedures.
Dispose of infectious waste in appropriate containers.
Maintain residents’ rights to fair and equitable treatment, self-determination, individuality, privacy, property, and civil rights.
Knock before entering residents’ rooms.
Communicate with housekeeping personnel and other department personnel.
Attend and participate in continuing educational programs.
Perform other duties as assigned.