Attendant

WVU Medicine Uniontown Hospital; Uniontown (Fayette County); On-site; USD 17,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

UNTWN Uniontown Hospital in Uniontown, PA is seeking a hospital housekeeping associate to support patient rooms, hallways, and common areas. The role ensures cleaning per universal precautions, handling waste, and maintaining clean environmental surfaces.

40 hours weekly, non-exempt, day shifts, with physical requirements including lifting up to 50 pounds. Qualifications include a high school diploma or GED and at least 6 months in hospital housekeeping.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED.
• 6 months hospital housekeeping experience.
• Ability to lift up to 50 pounds.
• Work in a healthcare environment with cleaning chemicals.

Responsibilities

• Clean occupied and discharged patient rooms, offices, and restrooms following universal precautions.
• Prepare environmental surfaces and furniture to restore cleanliness.
• Dust and damp mop rooms; respond to STAT calls and assist as needed.
• Maintain organization of carts and supply areas; report repairs.
• Assist with transfers and recycle materials as required.
• Respond to STAT calls via Spectralink phone if applicable.

Skills

multitasking

verbal comprehension

independent thinking

problem solving

Education

High school diploma or GED

Tools

Spectralink phone

Job description

Preferred Qualifications

EDUCATION, CERTIFICATION, AND/OR LICENSURE

• High school diploma or equivalent (GED)

Experience

• 6 months experience in hospital/medical housekeeping.

CORE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Cleans occupied and discharged patient rooms, office areas and restrooms, removes non-medical and medical waste following universal precautions and guidelines by EPA, and salvage cleaning; restores hard floor surfaces, vacuums carpeted floors. Contacts nurses' station for discharges/transfers and reports available rooms to appropriate bed personnel.
• Cleans and prepares all environmental surfaces including but not limited to, furniture, beds, bathroom fixtures, window sills, door frames, vents, walls, televisions, and curtains following universal precautions.
• Dust mops and damp mops patient rooms, hallways, stairs, bathrooms and offices; spot cleans carpet and furniture. Responds to customer requests, follows-up on STATcalls and fills in for various assignments, when necessary.
• Maintains cleanliness of the following environmental services items (housekeeping cart, trash carts, break room, supply area, storage & equipment) reports repairs to appropriate personnel. Keeps service closets in an organized manner.
• To respond to STAT calls via Spectralink phone if applicable.
• Transfers furniture as necessary.
• Collects, sorts and transfers recyclable materials, such as, paper, newspaper, cardboard, etc
• Utilizes working knowledge of compactor recycling operations.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Frequent walking, standing, bending, squatting, reaching, and twisting
• Ability to lift and/or carry up to 10 pounds and push up to 50 pounds.

WORKING ENVIRONMENT

• Exposure to dust, cleaning chemicals, and bloodborne pathogens.

Skills And Abilities

• Ability to attend to more than one aspect of a situation simultaneously.
• Efficiency in processing of verbal information, either in written or spoken form is a major requirement and prerequisite of the job.
• Some independent thought, planning or origination of options and solutions is necessary.
• Ability to apply principles of reasoning and problem solving to resolve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.

Additional Job Description

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Exempt/Non-Exempt

Shift

United States of America (Non-Exempt)

Company

UNTWN Uniontown Hospital

Cost Center

612 UNTWN Environmental Services

Address

500 W Berkeley Street
Uniontown
Pennsylvania

Equal Opportunity Employer

West Virginia University Health System and its subsidiaries (collectively "WVUHS") is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. WVUHS strictly prohibits and does not tolerate discrimination against employees, applicants, or any other covered persons because of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, sex (including gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), age, physical or mental disability, citizenship, past, current, or prospective service in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. All WVUHS employees, other workers, and representatives are prohibited from engaging in unlawful discrimination. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, training, promotion, discipline, compensation, benefits, and termination of employment.