Housekeeper

Seeking HOUSEKEEPER

• Position Summary:

Cleans hospital patient rooms, baths, laboratories, offices, halls, and other areas by performing the following duties.

• Essential duties, functions, and responsibilities include the following, but are not limited to, and other duties, functions, and responsibilities may be added:

• Washes beds, and mattresses
• Keeps utility and storage rooms in clean and orderly condition
• Replaces soiled drapes and cubicle curtains
• Disinfects and sterilizes equipment and supplies
• Sweeps, scrubs, waxes, and polishes floor
• Cleans rugs, carpet, upholstered furniture, and draperies
• Dusts furniture and equipment, polishes metal work
• Washes walls, ceiling, and woodwork, washes windows, doors, and sills
• Empties wastebasket, and empties and cleans ashtrays
• Transports trash and waste to disposal area
• Replenishes bathroom supplies, replaces light bulbs
• Required to work variable shifts, hours, holidays, and weekends
• Performs other duties as assigned
• Removal of snow and ice
• Assists in the safety, fire control, and security of the hospital
• Attends housekeeping department meetings, and hospital wide meetings
• Performs other duties as assigned

• Knowledge, Skills, and Education:

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• High School Diploma or general education degree (GED); or one to three months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand and walk. The employee frequently is required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear; and taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

• Work environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee occasionally works near moving mechanical parts and in outside weather conditions and is occasionally exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals, precarious places, extreme cold, extreme heat, outside weather conditions, risk of electrical shock, and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate, but can be extreme occasionally.

• You can also send your resume' via email to hyork@schd1.com.

Sumner County Hospital District No. 1 has reviewed this job description to ensure that essential functions and basic duties have been included. It is intended to provide guidelines for job expectations and the team member’s ability to perform the position described. It is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all functions, responsibilities, skills, and abilities. Additional functions and requirements may be assigned by supervisors, managers, directors, or officers as deemed appropriate. This document does not represent a contract of employment, and Sumner County Hospital District No. 1 reserves the right to change this job description and/or assign tasks for the team member to perform, as Sumner County Hospital District No. 1 may deem appropriate. The employee is expected to adhere to all agency policies and to act as a role model in the adherence to agency policies.

Sumner County Hospital District #1 (SCHD#1) takes necessary action to ensure all applicants are treated without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity, national origin, genetic information, disability, pregnancy, military or veteran status or any other protected characteristic as established by law. For more information, please view the EEO is the Law poster.
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Job Type: Full-time