HOUSEKEEPER

About the role

Pursue your passion for caring with the Duke Raleigh Campus in Raleigh, North Carolina. With 204-beds, it is the third largest of the four Duke Health hospitals and offers a comprehensive array of services, including cancer, cardiovascular, neuroscience, advanced gastrointestinal, and wound healing care.

Responsibilities

• Empty trash.
• Clean, mop, scrub, sweep or vacuum floors, stairways, and halls.
• Clean, wash, dust, or polish hardware, brass, furniture, mirrors, bedside lighting fixtures, vents, radiators, and exteriors of cabinets and equipment.
• Clean patient rooms and/or offices thoroughly by mopping floors, washing furniture, scrubbing plastic cushions, frames and cleaning and washing bathroom fixtures and walls.
• Clean drinking fountains, ice-making machines and sand urns; clean blinds with damp cloth or vacuum.
• Report repairs needed to supervisors including broken or cracked window panes, leaky faucets, toilets, loose tiles, broken blinds and damaged furniture.
• Follow all universal precautions, blood borne pathogen procedures and use personal protective equipment as needed while cleaning patient care areas.
• May dust mop, wax and buff floors and shampoos carpets.
• May be required to perform 'Seven Step' cleaning of all surgical areas, wall cleaning, machine scrubbing of floors (no finish) and related tasks with particular attention to specialized needs in the surgical area.

Requirements

Working knowledge of basic housekeeping and cleaning procedures.
Ability to maintain a high standard of cleanliness and odor control in work area.
Ability to read, write and follow direct written and oral instructions.
Ability to integrate age-appropriate response to the specific needs of the patient and visitor.
Ability to maintain effective working relationships with other employees.

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Working knowledge of basic housekeeping and cleaning procedures.
• Ability to maintain a high standard of cleanliness and odor control in work area.
• Ability to read, write and follow direct written and oral instructions.
• Ability to integrate age-appropriate response to the specific needs of the patient and visitor.
• Ability to maintain effective working relationships with other employees.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

Not specified.

Schedule

Not specified.

Level Characteristics

N/A

Minimum Qualifications

• Education: N/A
• Experience: N/A
• Degrees, Licensures, Certifications: If required to drive a DUHS vehicle, must have a valid N.C. driver's license in their possession and a good driving record.

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Working knowledge of basic housekeeping and cleaning procedures.
• Ability to maintain a high standard of cleanliness and odor control in work area.
• Ability to read, write and follow direct written and oral instructions.
• Ability to integrate age-appropriate response to the specific needs of the patient and visitor.
• Ability to maintain effective working relationships with other employees.