Lead Hospital Housekeeper

HCA Healthcare•Blacksburg, VA

About The Position

Serves as a working Lead Housekeeper, maintaining hospital premises in a clean and orderly manner under minimal supervision. The role combines daily housekeeping assignments with shift leadership, including distributing and monitoring staff work, completing inspections, supporting training, and helping maintain a safe environment. The Lead Housekeeper communicates policies and procedures clearly and interacts cooperatively with employees, hospital staff, visitors, and patients. Duties include routine and discharge cleaning, precaution-room cleaning, laundry services, waste removal, and cleaning and maintaining equipment. The position also supports emergency response, patient satisfaction, service productivity, and departmental safety and engagement activities. A high school diploma or GED is required.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED.
Ability to communicate policies and procedures in a manner fellow employees can easily understand.
Ability to interact with hospital staff, visitors, and patients in a friendly, cooperative manner.
Familiarity with operating heavy-duty or electrical cleaning equipment.

Responsibilities

In the supervisor’s absence, complete injury occurrence reports, assist employees when staffing requires, conduct in-service training, and hold staff huddles.
Distribute assignments and monitor and take responsibility for work assigned to staff during a shift.
Complete inspections of assigned areas and Black Light inspections as directed by the supervisor.
Help ensure a safe working environment throughout the facility and suggest ways to improve service or productivity based on daily census.
Monitor classroom setups, supply usage, and the restocking of supply deliveries.
Perform laundry services for curtains, mops, and rags, and properly sanitize the washer.
Orient, train, and coach staff, and assist with improving patient satisfaction scores.
Participate in the Departmental Safety Committee and Employee Engagement Committee.
Remove hazardous waste from satellite storage areas.
Monitor and dispatch requests for STAT discharge-room cleaning.
Perform daily housekeeping assignments, including scheduled cleaning, dusting, wastebasket service, disinfecting furniture, cleaning bathroom fixtures, mopping, spot-cleaning walls and windows, polishing metal surfaces, and replenishing paper and soap supplies.
Strip bed linens and perform discharge cleaning and precaution-room cleaning as needed.
Use a safety ladder to remove and replace cubicle curtains; vacuum carpets and spot-clean as needed; transport soiled linen to the collection point.
Measure and mix bleach and other cleaning solutions.
Clean assigned equipment and recommend repairs; report needed repairs to furniture, buildings, and fixtures.
Assist in evacuating patients during a fire or other internal disaster and assist nursing during a community disaster.
Perform other tasks as assigned.

Benefits

Medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health, and telemedicine coverage
Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
Paid time off and paid family leave
Long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
401(k) plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay, based on years of service
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Flexible spending accounts
Preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support, and financial wellbeing counseling
Tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships, and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
Fertility and family-building benefits and adoption assistance
Life insurance and supplemental health protection plans
Auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection, and consumer discounts