HC Housekeeper

Job Details
Level: Experienced

Location:

Dallas Retirement Village - Dallas, OR 97338
Position Type:
Full-Time
Education Level: Not Specified
Salary Range: $15.80 - $17.80 Hourly

Travel Percentage :
None

Job Shift: Day
Job Category:
General Labor

Position
:
Housekeeper

Department
: HC, Environmental Services

FLSA Status
:
Non - Exempt

Prepared Date
:
October 1996

Revision Date
:
March 2014

Approved By
:
Cory Oace, Nursing Home Administrator

Reports To
:
Director of Environmental Services, regarding essential duties, responsibilities, schedule changes and for updates regarding room moves/ discharges and other pending duties.

Purpose
:
Housekeeping personnel are directly responsible for the cleanliness of the physical plant and environment, including the resident rooms, fixtures, furniture and equipment, and for keeping the facility safe, attractive and in an operative state at all times.

Essential

Job Duties:

• Keeping facility clean and sanitized
• Cleaning of resident’s rooms
• Cleaning and sanitizing common areas
• Following chore list as assigned by supervisor
• Keeping equipment clean and in working order
• Stocking housekeeping carts daily after use

• Vacuums all halls and elevators.
• Cleaning/sanitizing and stocking public and staff restrooms.
• Dusting pictures/fixtures in halls.
• Extracting and spot cleaning carpets where needed.
• Requests supplies as needed to supervisor.
• Delivering facility newspapers.
• Clean pantry in dining rooms.
• Check refrigerators in pantries.
• Spot clean all walls.
• Washes windows and doors.
• Sweeps cobwebs outside doors.

• Spot‑clean walls and floors.
• Clean bedside tables/ dresser.
• Vacuum carpets and sweep and mop floors.
• Clean shower/tub, toilet, sink, and mirror.
• Collect trash.
• Spot clean soiled areas on carpet.
• Sanitize bed and dust as needed.
• Strip bedding and make beds.

• Wash shower curtains.
• Wash any privacy curtains.
• Wash wheelchairs as needed.

• Wash windows, blinds and patio doors.
• Dust furniture in halls, scrub handrails and baseboards.
• Dust pictures in halls.
• Extract all carpets.
• Detailed cleaning in any empty rooms.
• Performs other duties as assigned by supervisor.
• Strip bedding and make beds.

* All scheduled duties above may need attention earlier than scheduled times.

Other Principle

Duties Include:

Dallas Retirement Village fully embraces a culture of hospitality. To that end, we include the following hospitality promises in all of our community job descriptions.

• We greet residents, employees and guests warmly, by name and with a smile.
• We treat everyone with courteous respect.
• We strive to anticipate resident, employee and guest needs and act accordingly.
• We listen and respond enthusiastically in a timely manner.
• We hold ourselves and one another accountable.
• We embrace and value our differences.
• We make residents, employees and guests feel important.
• We ask “Is there anything else I can do for you?”
• We maintain high levels of professionalism, both in conduct and appearance, at all times.
• We pay attention to details.

Efforts have been made to develop a complete job description, however; please be aware that the duties and requirements listed herein are not the only duties, which you may be required to perform. The omissions of specific statements of duties do not exclude them from being assigned to you if the work is similar, related, a logical assignment to the position, or is necessary in an emergency situation.

Must be able to read and speak the English language, stand, stoop, push and pull equipment, mop floors, work with chemicals, communicate clearly with staff and residents.