Linen Services Technician-5

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

45d•Onsite

About The Position

Receives, counts, and distributes clean linen throughout the hospital as needed in support of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s mission, vision, and values. Performs all assigned duties in an effective, efficient manner and in compliance with all appropriate regulatory agencies, Children’s compliance and safety standards. Proactively supports efforts that ensure delivery of safe patient care and services and promote a safe environment at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta has been 100 percent committed to kids for more than 100 years. A not-for-profit organization, Children’s is dedicated to making kids better today and healthier tomorrow. With 3 hospitals, 20 neighborhood locations and a total of 673 beds, Children’s is the largest healthcare provider for children in Georgia and one of the largest pediatric clinical care providers in the country. Children’s offers access to more than 60 pediatric specialties and programs and is ranked among the top children’s hospitals in the country by U.S. News & World Report. Children’s has been recognized as a Fortune 100 Best Place to Work, a Best Place for Working Mothers, and as a top employer for diversity and millennials. We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefit package that supports our mission, vision and values. We are proud to offer an array of programs and services to our employees that have distinguished us as a best place to work in the country. Connect to our mission of making kids better today and healthier tomorrow. Have questions about the recruitment process? Check out What to Expect. https://careers.choa.org/lp/What%20to%20Expect/2895392d3ba166e6/?locale=en_US

Requirements

1 year of experience in a fast-paced environment
Excellent communication and organizational skills
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
Ability to pull and push heavy loads
Ability to count and record inventory
Ability to stand for long periods of time, walk, bend, stoop and reach for various items
Ability to operate laundry equipment, carts, and storage and dispensing mechanisms
No education required

Nice To Haves

High School diploma or equivalent preferred
Experience in housekeeping or linen services within a healthcare setting

Responsibilities

Perform physical inventory of linen using hand-held device.
Recording data (item counts) in hand-held device so it may be entered into inventory system.
Neatly placing clean linen on carts/shelves.
Interacts with customers to ensure linen is delivered in appropriate time frame and is accurate.
Responsible for responding to units requesting additional linen when the supply on their cart has been depleted.
Responsible for daily delivery and pick-up of clean exchange and bulk linen carts to each unit requiring a cart in the facility.
Accurately counts all remaining linen in exchange carts that are being returned to the clean linen room after retrieval from units.
Deliveries/pick-ups must be completed according to established timetables/8-hour shifts.
Maintain cleanliness of clean linen storeroom.
Consolidate partially full carts, remove all empty carts and place in hall.
Coordinates with staff and drivers the proper staging of carts being delivered.
Ensuring appropriate carts are returned to laundry as well as delivered to the facility.
Adhere to all regulatory, safety and compliance standards.