Housekeeping Assistant Specialist I - Support Services Environmental, Part-time, Evenings

Job Description

Hours: 32 hours per week
Evening Shift: 3:00 PM - 11:30 PM (Works Every Other Weekend and Works Every Holiday)
Location: Feinberg/Galter; FL 01 (Floater Position)

Benefits

Benefits Eligible
Role: New employees are eligible for benefits to begin on the first of the month following their starting date.
Our 2026 Benefits Summary is attached for your reference.

Qualifications

• Ability to understand oral instructions
• Preferred: High School diploma or GED equivalent
• One to two years of experience

Responsibilities

• Vacuums carpeted surfaces, damp mops hard surface floors
• Assists the supervisor in orientating new housekeeping assistants to the department
• Performs general and heavy cleaning duties in offices, patient rooms, clean and soiled utility rooms, laboratories, public areas, and stairways such as washing floors, walls, furniture, bed etc., with the appropriate hospital approved chemicals
• Use ladders and scaffolds as necessary
• Cleans window sills, empties ash trays and waste baskets
• Cleans blood and body fluids
• Clean arranges furniture in patient’s rooms, baths, offices, waiting and other public areas as assigned
• Cleans bath tubs, sinks, mirrors, toilets and replaces supplies as required
• While generally assigned to a specific area, may be dispatched to other areas as needs dictate
• Performs related duties as assigned
• Refinish floors, applying appropriate surface coatings
• Operates electrical and battery operated machines for scrubbing, shampooing and burnishing
• Moves furniture as directed and assists in freight moving
• Washes walls, blinds, lights and similar surface areas and hangs drapes
• Maintains and cleans equipment
• Upon completion returns. Equipment to assigned location (i.e. equipment storeroom, Janitor’s closet)
• Keeps janitor’s closet and storage area neat and orderly
• Performs all heavy duty mopping and cleaning
• Cleans washes, polishes and scrubs floor using electric scrubbing machine, wet vacuum and/or buffer
• Applies floor finish as directed
• Empties trash chutes and cleans waste containers
• Advises supervisor of unsanitary, unsafe or otherwise unsatisfactory conditions and defective or damaged fixtures, furniture or equipment
• Cleans roll stock furniture, hospital equipment and related items
• Strips, refinishes and/or shampoos all types of floor surfaces and coverings
• Transports hospital property from area to area or building to building
• Properly utilize the Bed Tracking system
• Log into the computer at the start of the shift
• Upon commencement of the cleaning process move the “dirty bed”, “clean next” bed, or a “stat bed” into the “In Progress” category
• Once completed move the bed into the “Bed Ready” category
• Log out at the end of the shift
• Strips unit upon discharge, terminally clean patient room and prepares for admission
• This includes the use of a tent card and a toilet seat strip
• Perform all in between case cleaning in the OR’s, terminally clean all OR’s and clean all LDR’s after each delivery
• Returns all keys and pagers

Skills

None specified

Benefits

Commensurate with experience

Pay

$21.65 per hour (+ $0.97/hour for shift pay differential)

Schedule

Evening Shift: 3:00 PM - 11:30 PM (Works Every Other Weekend and Works Every Holiday)