Juvenile Hall Housekeeper

Housekeeper Position At Marin County Juvenile Hall

The Housekeeper position at Marin County Juvenile Hall is responsible for maintaining a safe, clean, and sanitary environment throughout the facility. This role supports daily operations by performing a variety of housekeeping duties in key areas, including the kitchen, dining hall, restrooms, offices, and common areas. Responsibilities include laundering clothing and linens, conducting supply inventories, restocking items as needed, unloading deliveries, cleaning and maintaining floors through sweeping, mopping, and waxing, and disposing of trash and recyclable materials.

The housekeeper is also responsible for cleaning kitchen equipment and utensils, maintaining sanitation in food preparation areas, and occasionally assisting with meal service. The position may involve supervising and training detained youth in housekeeping tasks to promote life skills and personal responsibility. Groundskeeping around the facility exterior may also be required. Working in a secure juvenile facility, the housekeeper must maintain professionalism, ensure compliance with all safety protocols, and model appropriate behavior when interacting with youth.

Juvenile Hall is located at 16 Jeanette Prandi Way, San Rafael, CA. 94903. There is currently two (2) essential services (contingent) vacancies in Juvenile Hall. This list will be used for temporary/contingent employees providing additional coverage on weekday, weekends, evenings and on an on-call basis. The eligible list will also be used to fill future contingent hire vacancies in all County departments that have a Housekeeper position.

If you are interested in working in a department other than Probation, please consider applying to this recruitment.

Our Highly Qualified Candidate:
The ideal candidate has a background in professional housekeeping with a particular focus on high volume laundry services. They are willing and able to provide directions to detainees on daily housekeeping tasks, are comfortable working in a secured juvenile hall facility which operates 24/7 and can be flexible when it comes to working a nontraditional shift schedule.

Qualifications Knowledge of modern housekeeping equipment, sanitation materials and procedures, modern laundry equipment and procedures, infection control procedures and requirements, sanitary kitchen upkeep and clean up procedures, cleaning materials, supplies, and equipment, washing and wearing quality of fabrics, mending techniques, clerical record keeping methods sufficient to keep inventory of supplies. Ability to instruct others in maintenance and housekeeping procedures, detect evidence of misuse, improper care, or improper maintenance of tools and equipment, establish work methods, techniques, standards, procedures, and schedules, evaluate and rate the work of assistants, implement policies relating to custodial maintenance activity, establish schedules for processing clean linen, establish and maintain effective relationships with those contacted during the performance of duties, follow oral and written instructions in English, follow proscribed institutional security procedures, perform physical work (lifting and moving heavy items - up to 50lbs) in an environment that includes exposure to commercial cleaning solvents commonly used in institutional housekeeping.

Minimum Qualifications One year of professional Housekeeper (preferably in an institutional setting) experience that demonstrates possession of the knowledge and abilities. Background Process:
Applicants successful in testing will be subject to a thorough and rigorous background investigation which may include, but is not limited to, a criminal records check, interviews with friends, relatives, neighbors and employers; verification of DMV records; and overall employment and education history. An applicant may be disqualified for past criminal convictions, poor driving record, providing false background information, and other reasons.