Exeter Hospital - Housekeeper Sr.- Day Shift

Beth Israel Lahey Health; Exeter; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Beth Israel Lahey Health is seeking a hospital environmental services lead who will respond to service calls, direct staff on shift, and communicate department status to the incoming team. The role includes maintaining logs, delivering reports, and ensuring proper bed tracking.

You will monitor staffing coverage, perform cleaning duties, handle waste, and follow PPE and safety guidelines. Training new hires and managing linens are also part of the responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Must be able to implement verbal and written instructions.

Responsibilities

• Responds to calls for service and directs staff on shift.
• Documents all requests in the log.
• Delivers pager and provides report to next shift.
• Ensures adequate staffing during callouts and reallocates as needed.
• Maintains bed tracking and cleans assigned areas per protocols.
• Uses cleaning chemicals safely and follows PPE guidelines.
• Handles waste (general, biohazard, sharps) per procedures.
• May train new hires and issue/return linens per protocol.

Skills

Verbal and written instructions

Team coordination

Safety protocols

PPE usage

Job description

When you join the growing BILH team, you’re not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

Functions as lead worker in patient care areas of the hospital. Responds to calls for service from other departments and may direct the activities of other staff on a given shift. Communicates effectively the status of the department’s activities to the oncoming shift.

Job Description:

Major Responsibilities

• Carries beeper and IP phone, takes calls/requests, and assigns staff as required by situations.
• Documents all requests in log.
• Delivers pager and gives report to next shift/Sr. Housekeeper.
• May rearrange staffing to ensure adequate coverage during callouts as needed.
• Monitors bed tracking system.
• Cleans all areas as assigned and cleans floors using vacuuming, dry mopping, and damp mopping techniques.
• Performs all duties in a safe manner, donning appropriate PPE according to standards.
• Reports all aesthetic issues and repair needs to manager.
• Removes, reports, and tags any defective, damaged, or broken equipment using LOTO procedures as required.
• Uses cleaning chemicals in accordance with use guidelines.
• Handles waste removal, including general, biohazard/infectious waste, sharps, hazardous, and confidential waste, using appropriate protocols.
• May handle hazardous waste.
• May provide job training for new hires.
• Issues, delivers, and removes linens to assigned areas in accordance with established protocols and documents all linen issues.
• Maintains and replenishes supplies on carts and in closets in an orderly, clean fashion according to established protocols.

Requirements:

• 1-3years’ experience

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Must be able to implement verbal and written instructions.

Schedule: 7:00am-3:30pm Monday-Friday (every other weekend rotation)

Pay Range:

$16.97 - $24.35

The pay range listed for this position is the base hourly wage range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation is determined based on several factors, that may include seniority, education, training, relevant experience, relevant certifications, geographyof work location, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law. Compensation may exceed the base hourly rate depending on shift differentials, call pay, premium pay, overtime pay, and other additional pay practices, as applicable to the position and in accordance with the law.

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.

More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients’ lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled