Housekeeper, Maintenance​/Cleaning

Job Details:

Job Location:

Windber, PA 15963, Position Type:
Full Time,

Travel Percentage :
None,

Job Shift: Rotates All Shifts, Job Category:
Health Care,

POSITION OVERVIEW:

This position is responsible for maintaining the cleanliness of the Medical Center by, cleaning, gathering municipal and infectious waste, and supplying linens for patient care. Also responsible for outside maintenance of grounds and ensuring aseptic conditions in all patient care areas.

• Clean patient rooms.
• Using universal precautions, disinfect nightstand and over bed table, window sills, shelves, telephone, chairs, doors and door jams, dust mop, wet mop, empty trash, disinfect trash can and check sharp container daily.
• Replace all furniture in proper place before leaving room and lock beds.
• Clean the bathroom, disinfect sink, mirror, tub, shower, walls, commode, and floor and stock supplies.
• Totally house clean patient rooms twice a year:
  Spring and Fall.
• Monitor containers that hold sharp objects to be disposed.
• Replace containers when they are ¾ full (i.e. when needles appear in the window).
• Place container in Biohazard Container provided in each department.
• Follow standard precautions.
• Gather soiled linens and deliver clean linens.
• Monitor soiled linen carts in each department and collect them when full.
• Store all soiled linens in the soiled utility room for commercial laundry transport.
• Collect specialty items to be laundered in house.
• Transport clean linens to the clean linens room.
• Remove linen from the carts and place on shelves.
• Count all par levels.
• Distribute linen to each department and cover all linen while transporting.
• Gather trash.
• Pick up and dispose of all garbage and empty boxes throughout the hospital three times a day or as needed.
• Place recyclable in recyclable dumpster (such as boxes, etc.) and garbage in the garbage dumpster daily.
• Gather all trash from area of responsibility
• Maintain floors by using wet scrub techniques and clean/extract carpets. Clean tile floors.
• Use wet floor signs, dust mop, pick up debris, run automatic scrubber or bucket ringer daily.
• Clean and replace all equipment to its proper place after each use.
• Vacuum rugs, remove all soiled spots, clean and replace equipment to proper place daily or as needed.
• Dilute liquid according to instruction and clean rugs immediately when soiled.
• Refinish floors.
• Use wet floor signs, gather equipment, dilute chemicals per instruction, apply solution to floor, operate automatic scrubbers, pick up solution with wet vacuum to save drying time and rinsing
• Clean water rinse the floor and apply three coats of floor finish using the wax system equipment.
• Clean and replace equipment to its proper place after each use.
• Buff floors.
• Use wet floor signs, dust mop floor, wet mop floor, dilute chemical, apply solution to the floor, let dry, and buff floor with the buffer.
• Pick up debris, clean and replace all equipment to its proper place weekly.
• Clean satellite offices.
• Report to worksite, gather trash, operate vacuum cleaner, mop floors, dust furniture, clean bathrooms and stock supplies every day, Monday through Friday.
• Supply linens as needed and return soiled linen for processing.
• Cross train in other functional areas of the department and WMC.
• Follow procedure in all areas.
• Report to the area as scheduled and perform necessary task in specific area.
• Replenish all stock needed
• Perform outside maintenance duties.
• Sweep sidewalks and steps, cut grass, trim hedges, empty trash receptacles, pull weeds, rake leaves, remove snow from entrances, clean windows and vacuum carpets
• Clean doors, door jams, and polish brass weekly.
• Gather infectious waste
• Monitor each department that houses infectious waste.
• Dispose of full containers of…