What are the responsibilities and job description for the Environmental Service Aid/Laundry position at Minnesota Valley Surgery Center?
The Environmental Service Aide/Laundry will be responsible for maintaining all linens in clean amended condition. Reports to: Materials Manager
Minimum Qualifications
- High School Diploma or GED.
- Constant and frequent judgment and response required.
- Ability to communicate with others in a clinic and office environment.
Essential Functions
- Transports soiled laundry from operating, recovery and dressing rooms in covered laundry hamper.
- Sorts laundry for appropriately sized washing and drying loads including personnel apparel, OR Drape packs, recovery bedding and patient apparel
- Performs presoaking and bleaching for heavy soil and stained linens
- Fills washers with sorted linens and programs washing/rinsing cycles
- Transports washed laundry in clean cart to dryer, loads dryer and initiates appropriate drying cycle
- Folds and assembles dried linens for packs and shelving areas
- Removes linen needing mending or replacement
- Transports clean linens to appropriate areas in covered cart
- Maintains linen supplies in patient care areas
- Washes hands thoroughly with soap and water after handling dirty linens and before handling, folding or transporting clean linen
- Recognizes that water input temperature to washers must be maintained at 160 degrees
- Cleans dryer lint traps
- Terminally cleans area at the end of the day
- Maintains privacy and confidentiality of individuals and health information
- Identifies potentially unsafe situations and notifies supervisor.
- Maintains compliance with fire, emergency, blood-borne pathogens, exposure to chemicals, SDS sheets, spill kits, and other emergency and safety precautions as required by the center
- Complies with Minnesota Valley facility policies and procedures
- Performs all other duties as assigned
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 this 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 sit, converse, and listen; use hands to touch, handle, or feel objects; and to reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to walk, stoop, kneel, or crouch. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.
The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 35 pounds.
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.
The noise level in the work environment is typical of an office environment and, as such, is considered moderate.
Work is indoors in climate-controlled (with occasional exposure to outdoor climate) patient care environment with potential exposure to unpleasant odors, blood and body fluids that may carry infection, communicable disease, chemical and electrical hazards
