Janitor, Maintenance​/Cleaning, Commercial Cleaning

Housekeeping staff are responsible for maintaining a clean, sanitary, safe, and healthy environment throughout outpatient clinical areas. Employees are expected to understand and follow established cleaning, disinfecting, infection prevention, and safety procedures while performing duties according to planned cleaning schedules and departmental standards.

Housekeeping staff play an important role in infection prevention and maintaining an environment of care for patients, visitors, and staff. Cleaning responsibilities may vary based on contamination type, patient care area, and operational needs. All work shall be performed in accordance with Infection Control policies, safety procedures, applicable regulatory standards, and organizational guidelines. Employees may be permanently assigned or rotated between work areas as operational needs require.

This position may require work during days, evenings, nights, weekends, holidays, emergency situations, or on-call rotations.

• High School diploma or GED
• 6 or more months of experience in of janitorial, custodial, housekeeping, environmental services, or related cleaning experience
• Intermediate knowledge and operational use of housekeeping equipment, cleaning chemicals, disinfectants, and cleaning procedures
• Willing and able to stand, walk, bend, lift, push, pull, and perform repetitive physical activities for prolonged periods
• Willing and able to safely lift and move up to 50 pounds or more

• Previous healthcare, clinical, hospital, dental, hospitality, commercial, or institutional cleaning experience preferred
• Ability to read, understand, and follow infection prevention procedures, biological safety practices, and workplace safety standards
• Must be willing to work variable schedules, rotating shifts, weekends, holidays, emergency call-ins, and on-call assignments as required
• Knowledge of HIPPA and Privacy Act
• Knowledge of confidentiality requirements and patient privacy expectations
• Ability to maintain professional appearance and conduct within a healthcare environment
• Demonstrates professionalism, confidentiality, ethics, and integrity at all times
• Requires confidentiality, ethics and integrity at all times
• Willingness and ability to learn new procedures, attend training, and adapt to operational needs
• Demonstrates effective communication skills and ability to work both independently and within a team environment
• Must be able to pass a criminal background check
• Must be able to pass drug/alcohol testing
• Must have a valid driver’s license and clean driving record – may be required to drive GSA or tribal vehicles