Housekeeping Assistant II - Discharge EVS Team, Part-time, Evenings

Responsibilities

• Vacuums carpeted surfaces and damp mops hard surface floors.
• Cleans window sills, empties ash trays and waste baskets.
• Arranges furniture in patient's rooms, baths, offices, waiting and other public areas as assigned.
• Cleans bath tubs, sinks, mirrors, toilets and replaces supplies as required.
• Strips unit upon discharge.
• Terminally clean patient room and prepares room for admission, including the use of a Tent card and toilet seat strip.
• Cleans blood and body fluids.
• May be dispatched to other areas as needed.
• Refinish floors, applying appropriate surface coatings.
• Operates electrical and battery operated machines for scrubbing, shampooing and burnishing.
• Moves furniture as directed and assists in freight moving.
• Washes walls, blinds, lights and similar surface areas and hangs cubicles and drapes.
• Maintains and cleans equipment and returns it to assigned location.
• Keeps janitor's closet and storage area neat and orderly.
• Performs all heavy duty mopping and cleaning.
• Performs general and heavy cleaning duties in offices, patient rooms, clean and soiled utility rooms, laboratories, public areas and stairways, elevators.
• Uses ladders and scaffolds as necessary.
• Cleans, washes, polishes and scrubs floors using electric scrubbing machine, wet vacuums and/or buffer.
• Applies floor finish as directed.
• Empties trash chutes and cleans waste containers.
• Advises supervisor of unsanitary, unsafe or otherwise unsatisfactory conditions, and defective or damaged fixtures, furniture or equipment.
• Collects trash and debris in rooms, halls and stairways.
• Removes and compacts general waste and recycling materials.
• Properly disposes of Bio-Hazard waste.
• Moves all heavy furniture and equipment.
• Cleans rolling stock, furniture, hospital equipment and related items.
• Strips, refinishes, and/or shampoos all types of floor surfaces and coverings.
• Transports hospital property from area to area or building to building.
• Properly utilizes the Bed Tracking Program, logging in at the start of the shift and moving beds through the appropriate categories.
• Returns all keys and pagers.

Overall knowledge of equipment and cleaning solutions is necessary as well as rigid adherence to established housekeeping standards, requires neatness of dress and grooming plus friendly, cooperative attitude toward others.