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.
• Enters linen usage into the laundry program.
• Provides quality cleaning and positive customer service to all people; accountable for desired results and keeps accurate and current records to meet the hospital and department mission.
• Performs general duties such as proper collection and disposal of general and medical waste, Infection Control practices for disinfecting all surfaces, proper cleaning of 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 various assignments as needed.
• Trains staff on necessary processes as requested by EVS Leadership.
• Removes and monitors the waste stream to include 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.
• May perform multiple conference room set ups and cleanup activities daily.
• Performs duties related to the outside laundry service to properly clean and maintain hospital linen.
• 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.
• Adopts and performs duties that 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.
• No formal education or certification requirements.

Qualifications

• High School or equivalent education preferred.
• GED or higher preferred.