Weekend Housekeeper​/Maintenance - Recovery

The Weekend Housekeeper/Maintenance - Recovery role at Bel Aire Recovery Center in Bel Aire, Kansas involves keeping a clean and healthy client care environment by maintaining assigned areas in a clean, safe, sanitary and orderly manner. The incumbent advises supervisor on environmental services equipment needs and repairs and ensures that infectious waste and confidential disposal contractors perform as scheduled.

Maintenance tasks

• Performs daily routine maintenance and repair on the facilities and equipment to include plumbing, sheet rock, electrical, carpentry, mechanical equipment repair, painting, sign making and changing, etc.
• Maintains general plant and facilities in good repair, ensuring a safe, clean and comfortable environment.
• Completes work orders and hazard reports in timely and efficient manner; reports and fixes equipment malfunctions or breakdowns and all unsafe/hazardous conditions, defective equipment, etc. to the Director immediately.
• Ensures maintenance supplies are ordered, locally picked up or obtained and properly stored in maintenance area.
• Follows up-to-date preventative maintenance and repair schedule and completes report.
• Assists in maintaining parking lot and sidewalks, lawn care and landscaping as needed.
• Inspects and maintains emergency power equipment, tests/starts generator once a week and maintains equipment; inspects and maintains fire alarm system to include testing system, fire doors, audible alarms, visible alarms and smoke detectors and records data on appropriate forms as required by state or facility; checks condition and readiness of extinguishers monthly; inspects and maintains lighting system throughout facility.
• Inspects and maintains plumbing system, replaces or repairs faucets, toilet stools, urinals, traps, drains, basins and bathtubs, as needed; repairs or refinish furniture in rooms, offices and dining room as needed.
• Assures that work/assignment areas are clean and equipment, tools, supplies, etc. are properly stored before leaving such areas on breaks, end of workday, etc.
• Assists with ongoing compliance with fire and disaster drills and actual situation preparedness by conducting required drills as directed.
• Prepares rooms for meetings and arranges furniture for facility functions.
• Available to be on-call and work weekends as necessary.
• Works with external contractors as requested.
• Assists with client transports as requested.

Housekeeping tasks

• Performs specific cleaning and custodial tasks in the general upkeep, sanitation and cleanliness of the facility. Conducts daily cleaning of the facility including, but not limited to sweeping, mopping, vacuuming, dusting, polishing of fixtures, general straightening, and cleaning of bathrooms.
• Cleans facility rooms, baths, laboratories, offices and halls. Utilizes buffers, scrubbers, sweepers and carpet cleaning equipment as necessary.
• Washes bed frames, brushes mattresses and remakes beds after discharge of clients, when applicable.
• Keeps utility and storage rooms in neat and orderly conditions.
• Operates commercial washers and dryers. Launders soiled linens as directed.
• Attends to infection control standards, transports soiled linen to storage area and distributes laundered articles and items.
• Sweeps, scrubs, waxes and polishes floors. Work is performed with careful attention to slips/fall risks during and after cleaning floors.
• Cleans rugs, carpets, upholstered furniture and draperies. Dusts furniture and equipment.
• Washes walls, ceilings, woodwork, windows, door panels and sills.
• Empties wastebaskets, transports trash and waste to disposal area.
• Disinfects rooms, furniture, fixtures, equipment, and supplies, using appropriate processes and germicides for cleaning equipment.
• Conducts daily check of cleaning cart to determine inventory of supplies. Maintains adequate cleaning supplies for department/unit use.
• Conducts daily check of linen supply closet to determine inventory of supplies.
• Properly cleans and stores all equipment and supplies after each shift.
• Practices standard/universal precautions and environmental safety guidelines, including instructions upon MSDS for materials encountered during task completion.
• Prepares rooms for meetings and arranges decorations and furniture for facility functions.
• High school graduate or equivalent preferred.
• Previous experience in housekeeping in a commercial, clinical, or healthcare environment preferred.
• Basic reading, writing, speaking skills in English sufficient to provide and receive instructions/directions.
• CPR and de-escalation certification may be required (training available upon hire and offered by facility).
• First aid may be required based on state or facility.

Bel Aire Recovery Center offers a comprehensive benefit plan and a competitive salary commensurate with experience and qualifications. Qualified candidates should apply by submitting a resume. Bel Aire Recovery Center is an EOE. Veterans and military spouses are highly encouraged to…