Housekeeping

Maintains a friendly, efficient, and positive customer service attitude toward customers, clients, and co-workers. Is anticipative of/responsive to customer needs.

Perform day-to-day housekeeping and laundry functions as assigned.

Perform specific tasks in accordance with daily work assignments.

• Clean/polish furnishings, fixtures, ledges, room heating/cooling units, etc., in resident rooms, recreational areas, etc., daily as instructed.

• Clean, wash, sanitize, and/or polish bathroom fixtures.  Assure that water marks are removed from fixtures.

• Clean windows/mirrors in resident rooms, recreational areas, bathrooms, and entrance/exit ways.

• Clean floors, to include sweeping, dusting, damp/wet mopping, stripping, waxing, buffing, disinfecting, etc. (Note: Assure that appropriate caution/safety signs are properly set up prior to performing such duties).

• Clean carpets, to include vacuuming, shampooing, deodorizing, and disinfecting.

• Clean walls and ceilings by washing, wiping, dusting, spot cleaning, disinfecting, etc.

• Remove dirt, dust, grease, film, etc., from surfaces using proper cleaning/disinfecting solutions.

• Clean hallways, stairways, and elevators.

• Discard waste/trash into proper containers and reline trash receptacles with plastic liners.

• Clean vacant rooms as assigned.

• Assure that work/assigned areas are clean and that equipment, tools, supplies, etc., are properly stored at all times, as well as before leaving such areas for breaks, mealtimes, and end of the workday.

• Perform terminal cleaning procedures, as instructed, when a resident is discharged or transferred to another room.

• Discard infectious wastes into appropriate containers.