Housekeeper- Night Shift

Job Responsibilities

• Performs cleaning functions and activities of the Environmental Services and Laundry Departments.
• Maintains and improves the facility daily through consistent cleanliness, linen and supply, customer service, friendliness, courtesy, teamwork, safety, and quality performance improvement.
• Cleans the hospital in a sanitary, productive, and attractive manner.
• Provides linen to all departments as needed.
• Works with the workflow of the laundry staff to ensure linen usage is accurately entered into the laundry program.
• Ensures proper collection and disposal of general and medical waste.
• Follows Infection Control practices for disinfecting all surfaces.
• Cleans occupied/discharged patient rooms, triage rooms, and surgical suites, bathrooms, isolation rooms, vacuum and extract carpets, elevators, walls, windows, doors, furniture, floors, and complete dusting/cleaning of all surfaces.
• Updates cleaning routes and performs flexible assignments as needed.
• Trains staff on necessary processes as requested by EVS Leadership.
• Monitors and removes the waste stream, including regular, recycle, and medical waste, for a safe and cost-effective result.
• Cleans and reports repair needs of existing furniture.
• Performs floor care projects to maintain a clean and pleasant appearance of carpet and hard floor surfaces.
• Distributes clean and removes soiled linen from all areas daily.
• Recommends linen purchasing and linen inventory to maintain PAR levels of linen on exchange carts.
• Adopts and performs short and long term goals and objectives of the hospital and department.
• Improves the performance of the department and actively promotes quality initiatives with peers and staff.
• Reports repairs and mechanical failures, keeps cart, equipment, and closet clean and in good repair at all times.
• Maintains Regulatory Agency Inspection readiness at all times.

Job Requirements

• Minimum: Some cleaning experience, residential or commercial.
• Preferred: Housekeeping experience in a healthcare field.
• Education Preferred: High School or better.

Qualifications

• None required.