Utility Worker - Housekeeping Services

Nova Scotia Health Authority; Upper Musquodoboit; On-site; CAD 30,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A major healthcare provider in Nova Scotia is looking for a Utility Worker to maintain cleanliness in their hospital. Responsibilities include cleaning, mopping, floor care, and waste removal. Ideal candidates should have Grade 12 or equivalent and effective communication skills. This is a casual relief position that offers compensation between $20.74 and $21.56 per hour, with potential benefits.

Benefits

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Defined benefit pension plan

Qualifications

• Grade 12/GED or equivalent work experience required.
• Effective communication skills.
• Preference will be given to applicants with cleaning and floor care experience.

Responsibilities

• Maintain cleanliness of the hospital.
• Activities include cleaning, mopping, and dusting all areas.
• Floor care, waste removal, and chemical spill cleanup.

Skills

Effective communication skills

Cleaning and floor care experience

Competencies in other languages (French preferred)

Education

Grade 12/GED or equivalent work experience

Job description

Overview

Nova Scotia Health is the largest provider of health services in Nova Scotia, with some specialized services also offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. We’re on a mission to achieve excellence in health, healing, and learning through working together, which is reflected in the hospitals, health centres, and community-based programs we operate across the province. Our passionate team of professionals provides a variety of high-quality inpatient and outpatient services including academic, tertiary, and quaternary care, as well as continuing care, primary health care, public health, and mental health and addictions. Join a diverse team of innovators, collaborators, and creative thinkers today.

Posting details indicate an internal opportunity with focus on facilities housekeeping and support roles at Musquodoboit Valley Memorial Hospital.

About The Opportunity

Reporting to the Assistant Manager, the Utility Worker maintains the cleanliness of the hospital. Activities include cleaning, mopping and dusting all areas in the hospital. Other duties include floor care (scrubbing and waxing floors), shampooing of carpets and chairs, waste removal (hazardous waste and regular waste), chemical spill cleanup, laundry tasks, room set-ups, interior window cleaning, some salt application during winter months, isolation room cleaning, flood and blood spill clean ups.

About You

We would love to hear from you if you have the following:

• Grade 12/GED or equivalent work experience required.
• Effective communication skills.
• Preference will be given to applicants with cleaning and floor care experience.
• Competencies in other languages an asset, French preferred.

Please ensure your resume is up to date and includes all relevant education, experience, training, and certifications.

Hours

• Casual Relief Position
• Day shifts, 7:30am-3:30pm and evening, 3:30pm-7:30pm includes weekends and holidays

Compensation And Benefits

$20.74 - $21.56 Hourly

Successful candidates may be eligible for our benefits package which includes health, dental, travel, long-term disability, and life insurance coverage as well as a defined benefit pension plan.

Once You\'ve Applied

Thank you for your interest in this position. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

This is a Support bargaining unit position. Preference is given to bargaining unit employees for unionized positions. Employees are encouraged to view their seniority hours and dates in their SuccessFactors online profile. Successful applicants changing unions, bargaining units, or employment status, are advised to seek clarification regarding their seniority, benefits, and vacation entitlement and/or usage, prior to accepting the position.

Nova Scotia Health is committed to being a workforce that is free of discrimination, values diversity, and is representative, at all job levels, of the people we serve. We encourage all qualified applicants who self-identify as Indigenous, Black/African Nova Scotian, Persons of Colour, Foreign Nationals/Newcomers, Persons with Disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ to apply and self-identify.