Environmental Services Housekeeper

Dover Behavioral Health System is a 104-bed, acute care psychiatric hospital located in Dover, Delaware. The facility features individual units for adolescents and adults and offers inpatient acute care, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient programs. On average, over 10,000 patients receive care annually from our compassionate healthcare team. This opportunity is at a hospital recognized for outstanding patient satisfaction, including ranking 6th for highest patient satisfaction in 2020 among over 200+ psychiatric hospitals.

Responsibilities

• Clean in-patient and non-patient areas using proper supplies and equipment.
• Remove trash and waste from designated areas of the facility.
• Make beds correctly and remove and replace linens, placing in designated storage area for laundering.
• Maintain facility and furnishings in clean, orderly fashion, including dusting furniture, cleaning windows, keeping bathrooms clean, and replenishing supplies.
• Follow hospital safety regulations when operating department equipment.
• Adhere to all safety policies and safe work practices.
• Adhere to all hospital policies and procedures.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Exhibit Service Excellence and support facility internal and external customer service standards.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or equivalent and experience in housekeeping, preferably in a hospital setting.
• Deliver and maintain a clean, healthy, pleasant environment ensuring the highest level of satisfaction for patients, staff, and visitors.

Physical and Mental Requirements

• Able to stop, crouch, reach, walk, and stand for sustained periods of time.
• Use extremities to press, pull, draw, drag, haul, or tug objects in a sustained motion.
• Able to feel, grasp, and finger objects and lift them from a lower to higher position or horizontally from one position to another.
• Express and exchange ideas via spoken or written word to convey detailed information in an audible and quick manner.
• Able to make fine discriminations in sound and perceive the nature of sounds with no less than a 40lb loss at 500 Hz, 1,000 Hz, and 2,000 Hz, with or without correction.
• Able to substantially move wrist, hands, and/or fingers in a repetitive motion.
• Must be able to exert up to 20 lbs. of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 lbs. of force frequently, and occasionally exert up to 50 lbs. of force.

About the Company

Universal Health Services (UHS) is one of the nation’s largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services. UHS operates acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities, outpatient facilities, ambulatory care access points, an insurance offering, a physician network, and various related services across the U.S., Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and the United Kingdom.