EVS Specialist (Housekeeper) Full Time ~ Day Shift
for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections if posting has real specific content. The posting is a job description for a cleaning/housekeeping role. It includes responsibilities (cleaning tasks), requirements (high school diploma or GED preferred, ability to follow/understand verbal communications, read/write/speak/comprehend English, etc.), qualifications (maybe same as requirements), skills (maybe not explicit), benefits (none mentioned), pay (none), schedule (none). So we should include sections: About the role (maybe a brief summary), Responsibilities, Requirements/Qualifications (maybe combine). Since we must not repeat job title as heading. We need to preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to extract the content and put into appropriate sections.
We need to avoid boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc. The posting includes some lines like "All other duties as assigned." That's substantive? It's generic but maybe keep. Also "Must adhere to all DCH Health System policies and procedures." etc. Also "Physical presence onsite is essential." etc. Also "The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires the job descriptions to document physical factors..." That's boilerplate? Might be considered legal boilerplate; but it's part of description. The instruction: Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The ADA statement might be considered legal boilerplate; but it's describing physical factors. Might be considered required to document physical factors; but it's more of a statement. I'd lean to remove it as it's generic legal. However, the physical factors themselves are substantive: "Light work - lifting 20 lbs. occasionally, with frequent lifting and/or carrying of objects weighing up to 10 to 20 lbs. Requires walking, standing, climbing ladders, pushing, and pulling. Manual dexterity; ability to move the hand easily and skillfully. Balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, handling, feeling, talking, hearing, and seeing. Includes exposure to human body fluids, disease, infection, lab chemicals and hazard material. Requires wearing common protective or safety equipment. Must be able to speak clearly and have the ability to reason and express ideas to groups of people. Physical presence onsite is essential. Hearing and vision must be normal or corrected to within normal range. Able to perform the duties with or without reasonable accommodation." Those are substantive. So we keep those.
We need to avoid duplication: there are repeated lines like "Cleans and services building areas and patient care areas as assigned according to established procedures and schedule assignment." appears twice. We should keep only once.
We need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown fences.
We need to decide sections: About the role (maybe a brief overview). Could be first paragraph summarizing role: "Cleans and services building areas and patient care areas as assigned according to established procedures and schedule assignment." That's about the role. Could also include "Performs essential job functions in a manner that ensures the safety of patients, visitors and employees." etc. But we need to avoid duplication.
Better: Use sections: Responsibilities (list of duties). Requirements (education, language, ability to follow procedures, etc.). Qualifications (maybe same as Requirements? Could combine). But we need to avoid thin sections. Maybe just have Responsibilities and Requirements (including qualifications, skills, physical factors). Benefits, Pay, Schedule omitted if not present.
We need to use for each section heading. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use
for prose.
We need to preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include each distinct responsibility as a list item, but we can combine similar items? The instruction: "Do NOT invent or summarize away detail." So we should not combine or summarize; we need to keep each piece of detail. However, we can group similar items under a list but each bullet should reflect the detail. We can't omit any detail. So we need to produce a list that includes each distinct responsibility statement.
Let's parse the posting:
Original text (with duplicates removed):
"Cleans and services building areas and patient care areas as assigned according to established procedures and schedule assignment."
"Daily cleans assigned areas following 8 step cleaning procedure or other procedures as appropriate."
"Performs tasks such as; cleaning of occupied and discharged patient rooms, washing walls, doors/ door frames, ceilings, patient room furnishings, windows and if required refinish and burnish floors."
"Dust \ damp mop \ vacuum floor areas as applicable, vacuums carpets, spot-cleans carpet, collect waste from all areas of hospital, routinely clean waste receptacles, clean compactor area, collect soiled linen and distribute clean linen, move furniture within facility, arrange furniture and equipment in an orderly fashion after cleaning assigned area."
"Requests cleaning supplies and equipment as needed and returns unused supplies to housekeeping closet, cleans carts and equipment and ensures all items are replaced in orderly manner."
"Operates various types of cleaning equipment both mechanical and electrical, i.e. buffers, wringers, scrubbers, vacuums."
"Reports all broken furniture or equipment repair needs immediately to supervisors - daily"
"Cleans and services building areas as assigned (including medication storage areas) according to established procedures and schedule assignment."
"Maintains secured access to designated medication storage areas when assigned to work in those areas and alerts nursing/clinical supervisor immediately if medications are discovered in any unlocked, unsupervised area."
"Provides training for new hires and others to the units DCH Standards"
"Maintains performance, patient and employee satisfaction and financial standards as outlined in the performance evaluation."
"Performs compliance requirements as outlined in the Employee Handbook."
"Must adhere to the DCH Behavioral Standards including creating positive relationships with patients/families, coworkers, colleagues and with self."
"Performs essential job functions in a manner that ensures the safety of patients, visitors and employees."
"Identifies and reduces unsafe practices that may result in harm to patients, visitors and employees."
"Recognizes and takes appropriate action to reduce risks and hazards to promote safety for patients, visitors and employees."
"Requires use of electronic mail, time and attendance software, learning management software and intranet."
"Must adhere to all DCH Health System policies and procedures."
"All other duties as assigned."
Education/requirements:
"High School diploma or GED is preferred."
"Ability to follow/understand verbal communications and written procedures required and to verbally communicate with others."
"Must be able to read, write legibly, speak, and comprehend English."
Physical factors/working conditions:
"Light work - lifting 20 lbs. occasionally, with frequent lifting and/or carrying of objects weighing up to 10 to 20 lbs."
"Requires walking, standing, climbing ladders, pushing, and pulling."
"Manual dexterity; ability to move the hand easily and skillfully."
"Balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, handling, feeling, talking, hearing, and seeing."
"Includes exposure to human body fluids, disease, infection, lab chemicals and hazard material."
"Requires wearing common protective or safety equipment."
"Must be able to speak clearly and have the ability to reason and express ideas to groups of people."
"Physical presence onsite is essential."
"Hearing and vision must be normal or corrected to within normal range."
"Able to perform the duties with or without reasonable accommodation."
"The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires the job descriptions to document physical factors, including ability, activities and requirements." (maybe remove as boilerplate)
We need to decide sections.
Probably:
About the role
Cleans and services building areas and patient care areas as assigned according to established procedures and schedule assignment.
But that seems too minimal. Could also include "Performs essential job functions in a manner that ensures the safety of patients, visitors and employees." but that's more about responsibilities.
Better: About the role could be a short paragraph summarizing the role: "The Housekeeping Associate is responsible for cleaning and maintaining building and patient care areas, following established procedures, ensuring safety, and supporting hospital operations." However that would be summarizing, which might be considered inventing detail? The instruction says do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Summarizing might be considered summarizing away detail? It says "do NOT invent or summarize away detail". So we should not create a summary that omits details. We need to preserve all substantive information. So we cannot create a summary that leaves out details; we must include all details. So we need to embed all details somewhere, not just a summary. So we could have a section "About the role" with a paragraph that includes the core statement, but then we still need to include all other details elsewhere (like responsibilities). That's okay as long as we don't omit any detail. So we can have a brief paragraph that is part of the details, but we must still include all other details in other sections.
Thus we can have:
About the role
Cleans and services building areas and patient care areas as assigned according to established procedures and schedule assignment.
Then responsibilities list includes all the detailed tasks.
Requirements list includes education, language, ability to follow procedures, etc.
Physical factors could be part of Requirements or a separate section like "Working Conditions". Since we have a section for Schedule, Benefits, Pay, but we don't have those. We could add a section "Working Conditions" but the instruction only lists allowed headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. It says use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It doesn't forbid other headings, but says "Use for section headings (e.g. ...)". It implies we should use those headings when appropriate. It doesn't say we cannot add other headings, but better to stick to those. Working conditions could be part of Requirements or Qualifications. We'll include physical factors under Requirements.
Skills: maybe we can list skills like "operates cleaning equipment", "uses electronic mail, time and attendance software, learning management software and intranet", "ability to reason and express ideas to groups", etc. But those are already in responsibilities or requirements. We could create a Skills section if there is specific content. The posting mentions "Operates various types of cleaning equipment both mechanical and electrical, i.e. buffers, wringers, scrubbers, vacuums." That's a skill. Also "Requires use of electronic mail, time and attendance software, learning management software and intranet." That's a skill. Also "Must be able to speak clearly and have the ability to reason and express ideas to groups of people." That's a skill. Also "Manual dexterity; ability to move the hand easily and skillfully." That's a skill. So we could have a Skills section.
But we need to avoid thin sections. If we create Skills with only a few items, it's okay if they are substantive. The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So we could combine Skills into Requirements or Responsibilities. But we have many responsibilities already; we could add skills under Responsibilities as bullet points. That might be fine.
We need to decide: Let's create sections: About the role (short paragraph), Responsibilities (ul list), Requirements (ul list). That's two sections. That seems sufficient.
We must ensure we don't miss any detail.
Let's list all distinct responsibility statements:
1. Cleans and services building areas and patient care areas as assigned according to established procedures and schedule assignment.
2. Daily cleans assigned areas following 8 step cleaning procedure or other procedures as appropriate.
3. Performs tasks such as; cleaning of occupied and discharged patient rooms, washing walls, doors/ door frames, ceilings, patient room furnishings, windows and if required refinish and burnish
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use
for prose. We need to preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include each distinct responsibility as a list item, but we can combine similar items? The instruction: "Do NOT invent or summarize away detail." So we should not combine or summarize; we need to keep each piece of detail. However, we can group similar items under a list but each bullet should reflect the detail. We can't omit any detail. So we need to produce a list that includes each distinct responsibility statement. Let's parse the posting: Original text (with duplicates removed): "Cleans and services building areas and patient care areas as assigned according to established procedures and schedule assignment." "Daily cleans assigned areas following 8 step cleaning procedure or other procedures as appropriate." "Performs tasks such as; cleaning of occupied and discharged patient rooms, washing walls, doors/ door frames, ceilings, patient room furnishings, windows and if required refinish and burnish floors." "Dust \ damp mop \ vacuum floor areas as applicable, vacuums carpets, spot-cleans carpet, collect waste from all areas of hospital, routinely clean waste receptacles, clean compactor area, collect soiled linen and distribute clean linen, move furniture within facility, arrange furniture and equipment in an orderly fashion after cleaning assigned area." "Requests cleaning supplies and equipment as needed and returns unused supplies to housekeeping closet, cleans carts and equipment and ensures all items are replaced in orderly manner." "Operates various types of cleaning equipment both mechanical and electrical, i.e. buffers, wringers, scrubbers, vacuums." "Reports all broken furniture or equipment repair needs immediately to supervisors - daily" "Cleans and services building areas as assigned (including medication storage areas) according to established procedures and schedule assignment." "Maintains secured access to designated medication storage areas when assigned to work in those areas and alerts nursing/clinical supervisor immediately if medications are discovered in any unlocked, unsupervised area." "Provides training for new hires and others to the units DCH Standards" "Maintains performance, patient and employee satisfaction and financial standards as outlined in the performance evaluation." "Performs compliance requirements as outlined in the Employee Handbook." "Must adhere to the DCH Behavioral Standards including creating positive relationships with patients/families, coworkers, colleagues and with self." "Performs essential job functions in a manner that ensures the safety of patients, visitors and employees." "Identifies and reduces unsafe practices that may result in harm to patients, visitors and employees." "Recognizes and takes appropriate action to reduce risks and hazards to promote safety for patients, visitors and employees." "Requires use of electronic mail, time and attendance software, learning management software and intranet." "Must adhere to all DCH Health System policies and procedures." "All other duties as assigned." Education/requirements: "High School diploma or GED is preferred." "Ability to follow/understand verbal communications and written procedures required and to verbally communicate with others." "Must be able to read, write legibly, speak, and comprehend English." Physical factors/working conditions: "Light work - lifting 20 lbs. occasionally, with frequent lifting and/or carrying of objects weighing up to 10 to 20 lbs." "Requires walking, standing, climbing ladders, pushing, and pulling." "Manual dexterity; ability to move the hand easily and skillfully." "Balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, handling, feeling, talking, hearing, and seeing." "Includes exposure to human body fluids, disease, infection, lab chemicals and hazard material." "Requires wearing common protective or safety equipment." "Must be able to speak clearly and have the ability to reason and express ideas to groups of people." "Physical presence onsite is essential." "Hearing and vision must be normal or corrected to within normal range." "Able to perform the duties with or without reasonable accommodation." "The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires the job descriptions to document physical factors, including ability, activities and requirements." (maybe remove as boilerplate) We need to decide sections. Probably:
About the role
Cleans and services building areas and patient care areas as assigned according to established procedures and schedule assignment.
But that seems too minimal. Could also include "Performs essential job functions in a manner that ensures the safety of patients, visitors and employees." but that's more about responsibilities. Better: About the role could be a short paragraph summarizing the role: "The Housekeeping Associate is responsible for cleaning and maintaining building and patient care areas, following established procedures, ensuring safety, and supporting hospital operations." However that would be summarizing, which might be considered inventing detail? The instruction says do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Summarizing might be considered summarizing away detail? It says "do NOT invent or summarize away detail". So we should not create a summary that omits details. We need to preserve all substantive information. So we cannot create a summary that leaves out details; we must include all details. So we need to embed all details somewhere, not just a summary. So we could have a section "About the role" with a paragraph that includes the core statement, but then we still need to include all other details elsewhere (like responsibilities). That's okay as long as we don't omit any detail. So we can have a brief paragraph that is part of the details, but we must still include all other details in other sections. Thus we can have:About the role
Cleans and services building areas and patient care areas as assigned according to established procedures and schedule assignment.
Then responsibilities list includes all the detailed tasks. Requirements list includes education, language, ability to follow procedures, etc. Physical factors could be part of Requirements or a separate section like "Working Conditions". Since we have a section for Schedule, Benefits, Pay, but we don't have those. We could add a section "Working Conditions" but the instruction only lists allowed headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. It says usefor section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It doesn't forbid other headings, but says "Use
for section headings (e.g. ...)". It implies we should use those headings when appropriate. It doesn't say we cannot add other headings, but better to stick to those. Working conditions could be part of Requirements or Qualifications. We'll include physical factors under Requirements. Skills: maybe we can list skills like "operates cleaning equipment", "uses electronic mail, time and attendance software, learning management software and intranet", "ability to reason and express ideas to groups", etc. But those are already in responsibilities or requirements. We could create a Skills section if there is specific content. The posting mentions "Operates various types of cleaning equipment both mechanical and electrical, i.e. buffers, wringers, scrubbers, vacuums." That's a skill. Also "Requires use of electronic mail, time and attendance software, learning management software and intranet." That's a skill. Also "Must be able to speak clearly and have the ability to reason and express ideas to groups of people." That's a skill. Also "Manual dexterity; ability to move the hand easily and skillfully." That's a skill. So we could have a Skills section. But we need to avoid thin sections. If we create Skills with only a few items, it's okay if they are substantive. The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So we could combine Skills into Requirements or Responsibilities. But we have many responsibilities already; we could add skills under Responsibilities as bullet points. That might be fine. We need to decide: Let's create sections: About the role (short paragraph), Responsibilities (ul list), Requirements (ul list). That's two sections. That seems sufficient. We must ensure we don't miss any detail. Let's list all distinct responsibility statements: 1. Cleans and services building areas and patient care areas as assigned according to established procedures and schedule assignment. 2. Daily cleans assigned areas following 8 step cleaning procedure or other procedures as appropriate. 3. Performs tasks such as; cleaning of occupied and discharged patient rooms, washing walls, doors/ door frames, ceilings, patient room furnishings, windows and if required refinish and burnish