Laundry Aid

Position Summary

Under direct supervision, ensures facility linens and residents’ personal clothing are properly collected, sorted, laundered, distributed, and / or stored according to facility policy

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Handles all laundry in compliance with sanitary guidelines
• Sorts all soiled laundry into appropriate categories.  Lifts and carries loads of laundry to and from cleaning equipment
• Washes, dries, folds, and hangs all laundry neatly and properly
• Identifies personal laundry with resident’s names and remarks personal clothing items if needed
• Uses appropriate PPE when handling contaminated clothing
• Performs other related duties as required or requested

Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities)

Physical Demands and Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions .

Physical Demands – Office

While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to use hands or finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls. The employee is required to stand; walk; sit; reach with hands and arms and pull / push; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must lift and / or move up to 50 pounds without assistance and 51-100 pounds with assistance.  Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and the ability to adjust focus

Work Environment –  Office

This job operates in a professional office environment with minimal exposure to dust, chemicals or  noise. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.