What are the responsibilities and job description for the HOUSEKEEPER - Full Time position at UHS?
SUMMARY OF JOB DUTIES: To ensure the maintenance of a clean, healthy, pleasant environment for patients, staff, and visitors
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
- Cleans floors in patient and non-patient areas.
- Removes Dry/Wet trash and waste from the facility including the back dock.
- Maintains facility and furnishings in clean, orderly fashion.
- Removes and replaces soiled linens and towels from designated patient areas.
- Keep hospital and each unit stocked with toilet paper and paper towels.
- Dusts patient units and other hospital areas.
- Remove hazardous waste off the units and box it for shipping.
- When a patient discharges, clean patient’s mattress and make up bed.
- Demonstrates conduct in keeping with CCBH’s Service Excellence standards.
- Carry out other housekeeping duties as assigned.
Job Requirements
QUALIFICATIONS AT ENTRY:
Elementary reading, writing and math skills; courtesy; neatness; adherence to instructions and deadlines; knowledge of, and skills in applying, basic cleaning and housekeeping procedures and methods; institutional experience desired.
MACHINES, TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT USED ON JOB:
Electrical vacuum, carpet shampooer, mop, broom, cleaning and polishing solutions and compounds, cleaning chemicals, etc.
PHYSICAL AND MENTAL REQUIREMENTS OF JOB:
Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized. This factor is important if the amount and kind of climbing required exceeds that required for ordinary locomotion.
Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires full use of the lower extremities and back muscles.
Kneeling: Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.
Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.
Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
Standing: Particularly for sustained periods of time. Approximately 7 hours during an 8 hour shift.
Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward. Must be able to push housekeeping cart weighing 50 pounds to 75 pounds frequently during the work shift (approximately 300 feet maximum at any one time). Push linen cart weighing 65 to 100 pounds (approximately 500 feet maximum at one time) once during the shift. Push trash cart carrying 50 pounds to 75 pounds of trash.
Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, drag, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.
Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires the substantial use of the upper extremities and back muscles. Lift trash weighing up to 50 pounds.
Lift boxes of hazardous waste weighing up 25 pounds.
Carrying: Must be able to carry supplies (toilet tissue, paper towels, etc.) to hospital outpatient and staff development buildings (approximately 10 pounds to 20 pounds at a time).
Fingering: Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand or arm as in handling.
Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly. Will communicate with other staff by telephone.
Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds with no less than a 40 db loss @ Hz, 1,000 Hz and 2,000 Hz with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make fine discriminations in sound, such as when making fine adjustments on machined parts.
The worker is subject to both environmental conditions: Activities occur inside and outside.
The worker is subject to hazards: Includes a variety of physical conditions, such as proximity to moving mechanical parts: electrical current, working on scaffolding and high places, exposure to high heat or exposure to chemicals.
Must be able to concentrate amidst distractions; must be able to perform work of a repetitive nature; must respond calmly to potentially volatile patients.
