Housekeeper - WA

$3,000 sign-on bonus!
New starting wage of $17.60/hour!
Available Shift(s)

Washington St Campus: 40 hours per week | 7:00 am - 3:30 pm | wknd and holiday rotation

RESPONSIBLE TO
Director of Environmental Services and Assistant Director of Environmental Services.

Primary Job Function
To provide services to assure specified nursing units, areas and resident rooms are clean and sanitary and kept neat and orderly.

Essential Job Functions

• To provide services to assure nursing units, ancillary areas, resident rooms, resident care areas are clean and sanitary and kept neat and orderly.
• Must have the ability to speak, read and understand English sufficient to receive oral instructions, document and effectively communicate with residents and co-workers.
• Must conduct self with integrity, respect for others and converses with staff, residents and families in a caring, empathetic manner.
• Must be able to lift (up to) 35 pounds, 25-75% of an 8 hour shift and to walk, stand and reach 90% of the time of an 8 hour shift, occasionally climb 6-8 foot ladders for specific tasks.
• Must attend in-service programs when offered and demonstrate interest in learning.
• Must demonstrate flexibility and be able to adapt to changes in procedures and sudden changes in assignments as needed.
• Must work cooperatively with co-workers demonstrating a flexible and positive manner, as well as a willingness to help each other when interacting in the work environment.
• Responsible to organize workload to completion in accordance with established policies and procedures.
• Reliability and punctuality in attendance as scheduled.
• Participate in warm-up exercises to reduce the risk of injury and improve job performance.
• Will be responsible to be aware of the Volunteer Protection Program (VPP) and Risk Management/Safety Program and will adhere to the established policies and procedures within the Environmental Services Department and facility wide with regards to job performance and safe operating procedures.
• Responsible for keeping all equipment and surfaces in the area assigned clean, sanitary and orderly using an appropriate disinfectant. Doing said tasks using MSLCC established policies and procedures.
• Deep cleaning of vacated resident rooms per procedure indicated for specific needs and rooms.
• Use these guidelines:

Hands must be washed frequently and especially after cleaning a resident room and before going to the next resident room, after cleaning toilets, after cleaning heavily soiled areas and before and after personal bathroom use or breaks.

Gloves are worn whenever needed to protect the employee from exposure to blood borne pathogens or hazardous substances.

Doorknobs or latches, over bed tables, bedside stands, window sills, TVs, remotes, bed side rails, telephones and counters are cleaned daily with disinfectant.

Bathrooms are cleaned daily to include sinks, sink handles, toilets, toilet knobs, grab bars, medicine cabinets, mirrors, dispensers, and vinyl flooring.

Walls, drapes and privacy curtains are washed when visibly soiled (Check daily).

Vinyl floors in resident care areas are dust mopped and wet mopped daily with disinfectant. Use CAUTION floor signs when there is a wet floor.

Carpets are vacuumed daily and shampooed routinely or when visibly soiled. Vacuums are cleaned every Friday and bags are changed.

Beds are made daily and linens changed/ stripped weekly or PRN as needed by housekeeping staff. Bed frames, mattresses and springs or deck pans are disinfected once a month.

Service sinks, hand washing facilities and tub and shower rooms are cleaned daily with disinfectant, per procedures.

Spills are wiped up as they occur.

Mop heads dampened with appropriate disinfectant, are changed after cleaning/scrubbing/mopping each room and/or when visibly soiled. Mop buckets are emptied, washed with disinfectant olution, rinsed and allowed to dry overnight.

A stack of cleaning cloths are obtained from laundry daily. Cleaning cloths dampened with appropriated disinfectant solution are changed after cleaning every room or when soiled. Cleaning cloths used for the toilet are never used for the cleaning of other areas, and is the last item to be cleaned in the bathroom, all soiled cloths discarded to soiled utility rooms at end of day.

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