Housekeeping Full Time

Description

Flesher’s Fairview Health Care Center

Housekeeping Job Description

Reports to:  Environmental Service Director

Summary:  Provide a clean and sanitary environment for the residents.  They must be thorough in their work and pay attention to details. May need to coordinate skills to perform numerous duties within a specific time-frame.

Equipment Used:  Mop, broom/dust mop, vacuum cleaner, housekeeping cart.

Environment:  Inside:  90%   Outside:  10%

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:  Other duties may be assigned.

• Clean all assigned areas including but not limited to resident rooms, bathrooms, common areas, hallways, nursing stations, handrails, dining rooms, public bathrooms, and offices as assigned.
• Wipe all railings in your assigned area each day and dust mops and mops all assigned areas daily, moving furniture away from walls, as needed.
• Dusts furniture and equipment.
• Washes walls, ceiling, and woodwork, as needed.
• Cleans the inside of the resident room windows, door panels, sills, and mirrors.
• Empties wastebaskets, transports trash and waste to disposal area.
• Restock soap, toilet paper, paper towels, and other housekeeping supplies in rooms.
• Clean sinks and toilets.
• Periodically remove privacy curtains and curtains for cleaning.
• Cleans in dining rooms after meals, wiping tables, sweeping, and mopping.
• Stock housekeeping cart at the end of the day, keeping the cart in a clean orderly fashion with chemicals locked inside the cart.
• Attend all required in-service training programs for housekeeping employees.
• Accept assigned duties in a cooperative manner.
• Come to work as scheduled and demonstrate dependability and punctuality.
• Identify and report any equipment malfunction or areas in poor repair to supervisor.
• Follow established safety precautions when using cleaning chemicals and use as directed.
• Adhere to Flesher’s policies and procedures, employee handbook, resident’s rights, OSHA, State and Federal safety standard precautions, i.e. infection control, PPE’s, and isolation rooms.

Qualifications

Qualifications:  To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education:  Less than high school education, or up to one-month related experience or training preferred.

Language Skills:  Be able to read and write and understand the English language.  Be able to read, write and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.  Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one to “resident or resident’s families” and other employees of the organization.

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

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle or feel, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear.  The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and peripheral vision.

Work Environment:  The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  Work surface includes, carpeting, tile, linoleum.  The noise level in the work environment is usually moderately quiet.

Summary of Occupational Exposures:

Bloodborne Pathogens:  Tasks and procedures performed by employee involve risks classified by CDC as:

Category II (activity performed without blood exposure, but exposure may occur in emergency.)

Category III (Task/activity does not entail predictable or unpredictable exposure to blood.)

This position typically does not involve Category I exposure risk; however, if employee is trained in first aid, some emergency procedures may entail Category I exposure risk.  Refer to the Exposure Control Plan for additional information.

An employee in this position will be exposed to:  Inside environmental conditions, outside environmental conditions, chemical hazards, respiratory and skin hazards due to chemical use.