Housekeeper

Position Summary

Cleans hospital patient rooms, baths, laboratories, offices, halls, and other areas by performing the following duties.

Essential Duties, Functions, And Responsibilities

• Washes beds, and mattresses
• Keeps utility and storage rooms in clean and orderly condition
• Replaces soiled drapes and cubicle curtains
• Disinfects and sterilizes equipment and supplies
• Sweeps, scrubs, waxes, and polishes floor
• Cleans rugs, carpet, upholstered furniture, and draperies
• Dusts furniture and equipment, polishes metal work
• Washes walls, ceiling, and woodwork, washes windows, doors, and sills
• Empties wastebasket, and empties and cleans ashtrays
• Transports trash and waste to disposal area
• Replenishes bathroom supplies, replaces light bulbs

Knowledge, Skills, and Education

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• High School Diploma or general education degree (GED); or one to three months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand and walk. The employee frequently is required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear; and taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While Performing the duties of this job, the employee occasionally works near moving mechanical parts and in outside weather conditions and is occasionally exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals, precarious places, extreme cold, extreme heat, outside weather conditions, risk of electrical shock, and vibration.