Laundry Aide part time

About the role

The purpose of this position is to pick up, sort, launder, and redistribute personal laundry for assigned residents. This position ensures the proper labeling and distribution of personal items to be laundered and dry cleaned by outside services and the redistribution of such items.

Responsibilities

• Collect soiled resident clothing from resident rooms and from the utility rooms, and receive other items from nursing personnel for laundering.
• Separate items to be laundered and dry-cleaned by outside services, checking clothing and marking with name tags as needed.
• Check returned laundry and distribute to residents.
• Wash laundry at proper temperatures with proper kinds and amounts of detergents and other cleaning chemicals.
• Operate washing machine and dryer in laundry process.
• Advise supervisor of items that are worn out or unusable, so family can be notified.
• Launder posies, sheepskins, light bedspreads or other resident belongings as needed.
• Sort and distribute laundered items to resident rooms and storage areas as appropriate.
• Collect soiled hand towels from resident rooms and distribute clean towels.
• Advise supervisor of laundry supply needs.
• Assist in distribution of house linens from linen service as needed.
• Be familiar with duties and responsibilities of housekeeper position in order to fill in if needed.

Requirements

• One year high school education.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills, verbal and written in English.
• Previous housekeeping or laundry experience.
• Ability to work independently with limited supervision.
• Ability to organize routine schedule and duties to complete each day's responsibilities.
• Be able to make independent decisions in the absence of supervisor.
• An interest in and desire to work with older adults.

Pay

$16.94 - $18.91 per hour