Environmental Service Worker/Housekeeper - Full-time

About the role

Signet Health is hiring for Environmental Services/Housekeepers for our program at Permian Basin Behavioral Health Center, Midland Texas. This is an hourly position.

Responsibilities

• Maintains environmental and infection control standards within the facility; performs a variety of general cleaning tasks to maintain patient rooms, offices, hallways and other assigned areas.
• Collects dirty linens from units; uses industrial washer and dryer to wash hospital linens according to hospital standards.
• Operates mechanical floor cleaners, buffers, vacuums, snow blowers, shampooers and related environmental service equipment.
• Wet-mops rooms, halls and other areas; shampoos rugs and furniture.
• Cleans vents, fan fixtures, top of windows, doorframes and other high areas using a ladder.
• Moves furniture and other heavy objects as required.
• Performs terminal cleaning procedures of patient rooms and prepares rooms for new occupants; follows isolation procedures in isolation rooms.
• Makes supply packs for departments and puts linen stacks in carts for distribution.
• Keeps records of linen distribution by department; checks floor linen supplies and lists linen use by department.
• Shovels snow at all exits and ramps.
• Assists with evacuations when needed.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED.
• Two or more years of related experience, preferably in a hospital setting.

Qualifications

• Must be able to lift 50 lbs.; push/pull heavy objects up to 75 lbs.
• Prolonged standing with frequent bending, stooping, and reaching overhead.
• Subject to extreme temperature changes when working inside and outside.
• Sufficient emotional maturity to accept adverse comments and criticism and respond positively.
• May be required to use equipment and/or chemicals that could be hazardous.

Schedule

Days and hours of work may vary and will include weekends and/or holidays. May involve day, evening and/or night shifts to assure the continuous, and safe, operation of the hospital. Overtime is not scheduled but may occur. As a general rule, schedule will reflect coverage to include full seven-day schedule.