Housekeeper FT; M-Fri., 7:00am - 3:30pm
for section headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to include sections only when posting has real specific content. We have job summary (About the role). Responsibilities: many bullet points. Requirements: regulatory requirements, language skills, professional requirements? Actually "Professional Requirements" is a section. Also "Requirements" includes regulatory requirements, language skills, etc. Skills: basic computer knowledge. Physical demands maybe part of requirements? Could be under Requirements or separate. Benefits, Pay, Schedule: not provided. So we should not include those sections.
We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID. Remove boilerplate.
We need to preserve all substantive info. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use
for prose.
We need to decide sections: About the role (job summary). Responsibilities (list of duties). Requirements (maybe combine regulatory, language, professional, physical). Skills (basic computer knowledge). Could also have Qualifications (maybe same as Requirements). But we should not create thin sections. Perhaps combine Requirements and Skills into one? But rules: use headings for those categories if content exists. We have content for Responsibilities, Requirements (regulatory, language, professional, physical), Skills (basic computer knowledge). Could also have Qualifications (maybe same as Requirements). But we can keep Requirements and Skills separate.
We must not include headings with filler like "not specified". So only include sections with content.
Let's extract content.
Job Summary paragraph: "Cleans all areas of the hospital according to policies and procedures. Participates in performance improvement activities. Demonstrates Competency In The Following Areas Performs all assigned tasks in a professional manner in order to reflect the highest integrity of the Environmental Services Department.Performs routine cleaning of patient rooms, nursing units, offices, and clinical areas, waiting areas, lobbies, lounges, rest rooms, corridors, elevators and stairways in a clean, neat and sanitary manner.Completes work assignments in a timely manner.Utilizes the appropriate chemicals and supplies according to procedure.Uses and maintains equipment properly.Assists visitors with directions whenever requested.Always introduces self to patients, families and visitors.Reports safety hazards as appropriate.Transports trash and hazardous waste to appropriate disposal area.Replenishes supplies.Follows all infection prevention and control practices, including Standard Precautions, Transmission-Based Precautions and hand hygiene.Maintains set quality standards when performing job duties.Works day, evening or night shift as assigned.Ability to do work on his/her own with normal supervision.Observes safety precautions at all times.Maintains and ensures age-specific precautions.Performs all aspects of assigned tasks in a manner that optimizes patient safety and reduces the likelihood of medical/health care errors.Supports and maintains a culture of safety and quality.Able to apply commonsense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.Able to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations."
That's a long paragraph; we can treat as About the role.
Responsibilities: many of those bullet points could be list items. But we already have them in summary; maybe we separate responsibilities as list.
Let's extract duties list:
- Performs all assigned tasks in a professional manner in order to reflect the highest integrity of the Environmental Services Department.
- Performs routine cleaning of patient rooms, nursing units, offices, and clinical areas, waiting areas, lobbies, lounges, rest rooms, corridors, elevators and stairways in a clean, neat and sanitary manner.
- Completes work assignments in a timely manner.
- Utilizes the appropriate chemicals and supplies according to procedure.
- Uses and maintains equipment properly.
- Assists visitors with directions whenever requested.
- Always introduces self to patients, families and visitors.
- Reports safety hazards as appropriate.
- Transports trash and hazardous waste to appropriate disposal area.
- Replenishes supplies.
- Follows all infection prevention and control practices, including Standard Precautions, Transmission-Based Precautions and hand hygiene.
- Maintains set quality standards when performing job duties.
- Works day, evening or night shift as assigned.
- Ability to do work on his/her own with normal supervision.
- Observes safety precautions at all times.
- Maintains and ensures age-specific precautions.
- Performs all aspects of assigned tasks in a manner that optimizes patient safety and reduces the likelihood of medical/health care errors.
- Supports and maintains a culture of safety and quality.
- Able to apply commonsense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.
- Able to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
That's many.
Professional Requirements list:
- Adheres to dress code. Appearance is neat and clean
- Completes annual education requirements.
- Maintains regulatory requirements.
- Maintains patient confidentiality at all times.
- Reports to work on time and as scheduled.
- Completes work within designated time.
- Wears identification while on duty; uses the computerized punch time system correctly.
- Works at maintaining a good rapport and a cooperative working relationship with physicians, health plans and staff.
- Attends annual review and departmental in-services, as scheduled.
- Attends staff meetings; or reads and returns all staff meeting minutes.
- Represents the organization in a positive and professional manner in the community.
- Actively participates in performance improvement and continuous quality improvement (CQI) activities.
- Complies with all organizational policies regarding ethical business practices.
- Communicates the mission, ethics and goals of the facility, as well as the focus statement of the department.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Requirements Regulatory Requirements:
- Preferred high school diploma or general equivalency diploma (GED).
- Preferred one to three (1-3) months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Language Skills:
- Able to communicate effectively in English, both verbally and in writing.
Skills:
- Basic computer knowledge.
Physical Demands:
- Normal hospital environment.
- Normal/corrected eyesight.
- Hearing within normal range.
- Exposure to chemical, electrical and mechanical hazards.
- Operates floor machines - buffers, scrubbers, and wet vacuums.
- Continuous walking and standing.
- Lifting up to 80 pounds.
- Carrying up to 40 pounds.
- Pushing/pulling up to 250 pounds.
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position without compromising patient care.
We could put Physical Demands under Requirements or as its own section? There's no heading for Physical Demands in allowed list; but we could include under Requirements. However we have a separate Skills heading allowed. Physical Demands not in allowed headings list; but we could still include as part of Requirements (maybe as a sublist). The instruction: use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It says e.g., not exclusive; but we should prefer those headings. Probably we should not create other headings like Physical Demands. So we can include physical demands under Requirements as list items.
Thus sections: About the role (job summary), Responsibilities (list of duties), Requirements (combining professional requirements, regulatory requirements, language skills, skills, physical demands). Could also separate Skills but we have Skills content; we could make Skills section. But we already have Skills content (basic computer knowledge). Could put under Skills heading. That would be fine.
Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Skills.
We must not include empty sections.
Now produce HTML fragment:
About the role
Cleans all areas of the hospital according to policies and procedures. Participates in performance improvement activities. Demonstrates Competency In The Following Areas Performs all assigned tasks in a professional manner in order to reflect the highest integrity of the Environmental Services Department.Performs routine cleaning of patient rooms, nursing units, offices, and clinical areas, waiting areas, lobbies, lounges, rest rooms, corridors, elevators and stairways in a clean, neat and sanitary manner.Completes work assignments in a timely manner.Utilizes the appropriate chemicals and supplies according to procedure.Uses and maintains equipment properly.Assists visitors with directions whenever requested.Always introduces self to patients, families and visitors.Reports safety hazards as appropriate.Transports trash and hazardous waste to appropriate disposal area.Replenishes supplies.Follows all infection prevention and control practices, including Standard Precautions, Transmission-Based Precautions and hand hygiene.Maintains set quality standards when performing job duties.Works day, evening or night shift as assigned.Ability to do work on his/her own with normal supervision.Observes safety precautions at all times.Maintains and ensures age-specific precautions.Performs all aspects of assigned tasks in a manner that optimizes patient safety and reduces the likelihood of medical/health care errors.Supports and maintains a culture of safety and quality.Able to apply commonsense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.Able to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
Then Responsibilities - ... each duty as li.
But note many duties already in the summary; we might duplicate. However we need to preserve all substantive info; we can keep them in responsibilities list and maybe shorten summary to just overview. But the instruction: Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep all details somewhere. If we put them in responsibilities list, we can keep summary shorter but still include all details in list. However the summary currently contains many details; we could keep summary as a brief overview and then list responsibilities with all details. But we must not lose any detail. If we keep summary as is and also list responsibilities, we would duplicate details, which is okay? It says do NOT invent or summarize away detail; duplication is not prohibited but might be redundant. Better to keep summary as a brief overview (maybe first sentence) and then list responsibilities with all details. But we risk losing some detail if we omit from summary. Safer to keep summary as is and also list responsibilities? That duplicates but preserves all info. The instruction does not forbid duplication. However they said "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." Duplication may be okay but could be considered thin? Not sure.
Maybe better: Use About the role as a short paragraph (maybe first two sentences) and then Responsibilities list with all detailed duties. That way we preserve all details in list, not lost. The summary originally had many details; we can condense to a brief overview: "Cleans all areas of the hospital according to policies and procedures. Participates in performance improvement activities." That's two sentences; we lose many details but they are captured in responsibilities list. That should be okay as we preserve all substantive info via list.
Thus About the role: short paragraph.
Now Responsibilities list: include all duty items.
Now Requirements list: include professional requirements, regulatory requirements, language skills, physical demands.
Now Skills list: basic computer knowledge.
Let's craft.
Professional Requirements items list.
Regulatory Requirements items list.
Language Skills items list.
Physical Demands items list.
We can combine them under Requirements heading as separate sublists? But we need to use
- for any list. Could have multiple
under same section.
We'll do:
Requirements
- Adheres to dress code. Appearance is neat and clean
- Completes annual education requirements.
- Maintains regulatory requirements.
- Maintains patient confidentiality at all times.
- Reports to work on time and as scheduled.
- Completes work within designated time.
- Wears identification while on duty; uses the computerized punch time system correctly.
- Works at maintaining a good rapport and a cooperative working relationship with physicians, health plans and staff.
- Attends annual review and departmental in-services, as scheduled.
- Attends staff meetings; or reads and returns all
for prose. We need to decide sections: About the role (job summary). Responsibilities (list of duties). Requirements (maybe combine regulatory, language, professional, physical). Skills (basic computer knowledge). Could also have Qualifications (maybe same as Requirements). But we should not create thin sections. Perhaps combine Requirements and Skills into one? But rules: use headings for those categories if content exists. We have content for Responsibilities, Requirements (regulatory, language, professional, physical), Skills (basic computer knowledge). Could also have Qualifications (maybe same as Requirements). But we can keep Requirements and Skills separate. We must not include headings with filler like "not specified". So only include sections with content. Let's extract content. Job Summary paragraph: "Cleans all areas of the hospital according to policies and procedures. Participates in performance improvement activities. Demonstrates Competency In The Following Areas Performs all assigned tasks in a professional manner in order to reflect the highest integrity of the Environmental Services Department.Performs routine cleaning of patient rooms, nursing units, offices, and clinical areas, waiting areas, lobbies, lounges, rest rooms, corridors, elevators and stairways in a clean, neat and sanitary manner.Completes work assignments in a timely manner.Utilizes the appropriate chemicals and supplies according to procedure.Uses and maintains equipment properly.Assists visitors with directions whenever requested.Always introduces self to patients, families and visitors.Reports safety hazards as appropriate.Transports trash and hazardous waste to appropriate disposal area.Replenishes supplies.Follows all infection prevention and control practices, including Standard Precautions, Transmission-Based Precautions and hand hygiene.Maintains set quality standards when performing job duties.Works day, evening or night shift as assigned.Ability to do work on his/her own with normal supervision.Observes safety precautions at all times.Maintains and ensures age-specific precautions.Performs all aspects of assigned tasks in a manner that optimizes patient safety and reduces the likelihood of medical/health care errors.Supports and maintains a culture of safety and quality.Able to apply commonsense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.Able to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations." That's a long paragraph; we can treat as About the role. Responsibilities: many of those bullet points could be list items. But we already have them in summary; maybe we separate responsibilities as list. Let's extract duties list: - Performs all assigned tasks in a professional manner in order to reflect the highest integrity of the Environmental Services Department. - Performs routine cleaning of patient rooms, nursing units, offices, and clinical areas, waiting areas, lobbies, lounges, rest rooms, corridors, elevators and stairways in a clean, neat and sanitary manner. - Completes work assignments in a timely manner. - Utilizes the appropriate chemicals and supplies according to procedure. - Uses and maintains equipment properly. - Assists visitors with directions whenever requested. - Always introduces self to patients, families and visitors. - Reports safety hazards as appropriate. - Transports trash and hazardous waste to appropriate disposal area. - Replenishes supplies. - Follows all infection prevention and control practices, including Standard Precautions, Transmission-Based Precautions and hand hygiene. - Maintains set quality standards when performing job duties. - Works day, evening or night shift as assigned. - Ability to do work on his/her own with normal supervision. - Observes safety precautions at all times. - Maintains and ensures age-specific precautions. - Performs all aspects of assigned tasks in a manner that optimizes patient safety and reduces the likelihood of medical/health care errors. - Supports and maintains a culture of safety and quality. - Able to apply commonsense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. - Able to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations. That's many. Professional Requirements list: - Adheres to dress code. Appearance is neat and clean - Completes annual education requirements. - Maintains regulatory requirements. - Maintains patient confidentiality at all times. - Reports to work on time and as scheduled. - Completes work within designated time. - Wears identification while on duty; uses the computerized punch time system correctly. - Works at maintaining a good rapport and a cooperative working relationship with physicians, health plans and staff. - Attends annual review and departmental in-services, as scheduled. - Attends staff meetings; or reads and returns all staff meeting minutes. - Represents the organization in a positive and professional manner in the community. - Actively participates in performance improvement and continuous quality improvement (CQI) activities. - Complies with all organizational policies regarding ethical business practices. - Communicates the mission, ethics and goals of the facility, as well as the focus statement of the department. - Performs other duties as assigned. Requirements Regulatory Requirements: - Preferred high school diploma or general equivalency diploma (GED). - Preferred one to three (1-3) months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Language Skills: - Able to communicate effectively in English, both verbally and in writing. Skills: - Basic computer knowledge. Physical Demands: - Normal hospital environment. - Normal/corrected eyesight. - Hearing within normal range. - Exposure to chemical, electrical and mechanical hazards. - Operates floor machines - buffers, scrubbers, and wet vacuums. - Continuous walking and standing. - Lifting up to 80 pounds. - Carrying up to 40 pounds. - Pushing/pulling up to 250 pounds. - Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position without compromising patient care. We could put Physical Demands under Requirements or as its own section? There's no heading for Physical Demands in allowed list; but we could include under Requirements. However we have a separate Skills heading allowed. Physical Demands not in allowed headings list; but we could still include as part of Requirements (maybe as a sublist). The instruction: use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It says e.g., not exclusive; but we should prefer those headings. Probably we should not create other headings like Physical Demands. So we can include physical demands under Requirements as list items.
Thus sections: About the role (job summary), Responsibilities (list of duties), Requirements (combining professional requirements, regulatory requirements, language skills, skills, physical demands). Could also separate Skills but we have Skills content; we could make Skills section. But we already have Skills content (basic computer knowledge). Could put under Skills heading. That would be fine.
Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Skills.
We must not include empty sections.
Now produce HTML fragment:
About the role
Cleans all areas of the hospital according to policies and procedures. Participates in performance improvement activities. Demonstrates Competency In The Following Areas Performs all assigned tasks in a professional manner in order to reflect the highest integrity of the Environmental Services Department.Performs routine cleaning of patient rooms, nursing units, offices, and clinical areas, waiting areas, lobbies, lounges, rest rooms, corridors, elevators and stairways in a clean, neat and sanitary manner.Completes work assignments in a timely manner.Utilizes the appropriate chemicals and supplies according to procedure.Uses and maintains equipment properly.Assists visitors with directions whenever requested.Always introduces self to patients, families and visitors.Reports safety hazards as appropriate.Transports trash and hazardous waste to appropriate disposal area.Replenishes supplies.Follows all infection prevention and control practices, including Standard Precautions, Transmission-Based Precautions and hand hygiene.Maintains set quality standards when performing job duties.Works day, evening or night shift as assigned.Ability to do work on his/her own with normal supervision.Observes safety precautions at all times.Maintains and ensures age-specific precautions.Performs all aspects of assigned tasks in a manner that optimizes patient safety and reduces the likelihood of medical/health care errors.Supports and maintains a culture of safety and quality.Able to apply commonsense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.Able to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
Then Responsibilities- ... each duty as li.
But note many duties already in the summary; we might duplicate. However we need to preserve all substantive info; we can keep them in responsibilities list and maybe shorten summary to just overview. But the instruction: Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep all details somewhere. If we put them in responsibilities list, we can keep summary shorter but still include all details in list. However the summary currently contains many details; we could keep summary as a brief overview and then list responsibilities with all details. But we must not lose any detail. If we keep summary as is and also list responsibilities, we would duplicate details, which is okay? It says do NOT invent or summarize away detail; duplication is not prohibited but might be redundant. Better to keep summary as a brief overview (maybe first sentence) and then list responsibilities with all details. But we risk losing some detail if we omit from summary. Safer to keep summary as is and also list responsibilities? That duplicates but preserves all info. The instruction does not forbid duplication. However they said "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." Duplication may be okay but could be considered thin? Not sure.
Maybe better: Use About the role as a short paragraph (maybe first two sentences) and then Responsibilities list with all detailed duties. That way we preserve all details in list, not lost. The summary originally had many details; we can condense to a brief overview: "Cleans all areas of the hospital according to policies and procedures. Participates in performance improvement activities." That's two sentences; we lose many details but they are captured in responsibilities list. That should be okay as we preserve all substantive info via list.
Thus About the role: short paragraph.
Now Responsibilities list: include all duty items.
Now Requirements list: include professional requirements, regulatory requirements, language skills, physical demands.
Now Skills list: basic computer knowledge.
Let's craft.
Professional Requirements items list.
Regulatory Requirements items list.
Language Skills items list.
Physical Demands items list.
We can combine them under Requirements heading as separate sublists? But we need to use
- for any list. Could have multiple
- under same section.
We'll do:
- Adheres to dress code. Appearance is neat and clean
- Completes annual education requirements.
- Maintains regulatory requirements.
- Maintains patient confidentiality at all times.
- Reports to work on time and as scheduled.
- Completes work within designated time.
- Wears identification while on duty; uses the computerized punch time system correctly.
- Works at maintaining a good rapport and a cooperative working relationship with physicians, health plans and staff.
- Attends annual review and departmental in-services, as scheduled.
- Attends staff meetings; or reads and returns all
Requirements
- for any list. Could have multiple