Laundry Aide

The Laundry Aide plays an essential role in ensuring the cleanliness, availability, and distribution of linens, garments, and other washable items throughout the facility. This position supports patient care and facility operations by maintaining sanitary standards and handling laundry with care and attention to infection control protocols.

Position Responsibilities:

• Collects, sorts, washes, dries, folds, and distributes linens, garments, and laundry items used in patient care and facility operations.
• Delivers clean laundry to designated areas across the facility, including patient care units and support departments.
• Ensures linen carts are stocked and organized for daily use.
• Removes stained or damaged linens from circulation; reports shortages or supply needs to the Laundry Manager.
• Maintains cleanliness of laundry equipment and work area.
• Uses laundry equipment and cleaning chemicals safely and as trained.
• Follows established infection prevention and control policies.
• Maintains a professional, courteous relationship with patients, staff, and visitors.
• Communicates clearly with supervisor and team members regarding tasks, needs, or concerns.
• Participates in training of new staff when appropriate.
• Assists with quality assurance programs when indicated.
• Performs other related duties as assigned within the scope of knowledge and ability.

Organization’s Expectations of Employee:

• Represents North Valley Hospital and facilities positively and professionally by exemplifying the vision, mission, values, and goals of North Valley Hospital.
• Maintains attendance by working the hours of the position.  Follows policies and procedures regarding attendance, vacation, holidays, sick leave, and leaves of absence.
• Uses the timekeeping applications efficiently and accurately.
• Adheres to dress code; appearance is neat and clean; wears name badge while on duty
• Uses good customer service skills by relating to staff/healthcare providers, patients/residents, customers, and the general public courteously and diplomatically under all circumstances.
• Compliance with all organizational policies and procedures.
• Participate in CQI/QAPI activities, NVHD Performance Improvement Initiatives, and Disaster Preparedness education/exercises, and complete duties as assigned in case of emergencies/ICS stand-up.
• Completes mandatory training timely.
• Demonstrates the ability to make decisions, take appropriate action, and follow tasks through to completion.
• Effectively collaborates with peers and team members, using tactful, diplomatic communication techniques in potentially sensitive or emotionally charged situations.
• Demonstrates leadership responsibility and skills, including planning and completing duties with minimal directions from the supervisor when appropriate.
• Performs other duties as assigned, provided skills, abilities, and qualifications are appropriate and sufficient training is provided.

• Physical demands:  While performing duties of the job, the employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; must have speech, vision, smell, touch and hearing corrected to normal range.  The employee must frequently lift/push/pull up to 25 pounds and up to 50 pounds occasionally.  Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Mental requirements:  Must be able to apply common sense to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagrammatic form; must be able to add, subtract, multiply, and divide all units of measure; must be able to read, write, and speak clearly.
• Work environment:  Works inside in close working quarters with co-workers. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
• Exposures:  Muscular strain, body fluids, behavior of clients/patients/residents, infectious material, chemicals/cleaning solutions, potential allergens such as plants/flowers, and noxious odors.