Housekeeper - General; Porter

WYO
2000 Cambridge Ave
Wyomissing, PA 19610, USA

Join a team that takes pride in keeping our community beautiful, healthy, and welcoming. As a General Housekeeper at The Highlands at Wyomissing®, you’ll help maintain the highest standards of cleanliness and safety across our campus, from residential living areas to common spaces. This role includes heavy housekeeping, event setup and teardown, and light maintenance support, ensuring every area of our community shines.

Bring your attention to detail, teamwork, and commitment to excellence to a role where your work truly makes a difference.

The General Housekeeper provides a high standard of cleanliness in all areas of the facility to ensure a healthy and attractive environment for residents and staff. The General Housekeeper is responsible for heavy housekeeping and maintenance of residential living (apartments, villas, cottages and vistas), Personal Care, Nursing Care, Core/Administration areas, as well as public areas, and common areas. Additional responsibilities include the setup and teardown of campus-wide events, moving of large items and performing light routine maintenance activities throughout the campus.

• Adheres to proper and regulatory procedures for cleaning and sanitizing the facility, removing trash and recyclable items, collecting and emptying bins containing PHI protected by
• Maintains satisfactory standards in the safe and responsible use of chemicals and
• Collects soiled linen items in residential living (apartments), Personal Care, Nursing Care, Core/ Fitness Center, public areas, and common areas daily.
• Sorts, counts, stocks and distributes clean linen items as
• Follows all prescribed cleaning procedures for various areas of the facility including routine inspections of area of leadership.
• Operates wide area ride on vacuum cleaners, push vacuum and backpack vacuums to clean carpets and solid surface floors on a daily basis to ensure the cleanliness of the campus.
• Operates ride on extractors, manual electrical extractors, handheld extractors, floor scrubbers and encapsulation machines to clean carpets and solid surface floors on a daily basis to ensure the cleanliness of the campus.
• Follows floor care schedule to ensure proper floor care is completed on a daily, weekly, monthly and semi-annual schedule.
• Gathers wheelchairs and walkers to clean in accordance with departmental policies utilizing hand cleaning and machine cleaning methods.
• Transfers wheelchairs and other assistive devices to and from storage as
• Moves and exchange carts, take down and re-hang sheers and
• Utilizes standard precautions for infection
• Daily moves furniture items, as needed, to facilitate cleaning or to set up tables and chairs for special functions. Occasionally climbs ladders to complete cleaning assignments.
• Demonstrates interest in learning additional aspects of the
• Demonstrates excellent customer service skills by responding to service requests with a positive attitude and sense of urgency.
• Follows schedules and time frames for tasks to be
• Provides a positive role model especially during new employee Provides encouragement and positive examples of life in The Highlands at Wyomissing.
• Assures the safety of the residents within the
• Assists the maintenance department as needed in general routine maintenance tasks including but not limited to unclogging sinks and commodes and changing light bulbs as required.
• Operates medium equipment such as trash compactors daily following proper operating procedures, utilizing proper protective equipment and ensuring only allowed items are
• Assists in minor routine pest management practices following proper procedures and Departmental plans, policies and procedures, including but not limited to accompanying the professional pest control organization on campus, placing and monitoring pest and varmint control traps and baits, applying premixed pest control sprays and baits as needed.
• Cleaning and maintaining exterior furniture and items on a seasonal
• Cleaning and removing leaves, salt and other debris from interior and exterior
• Assisting the Maintenance and Grounds Departments in snow…