Compassionate Senior Living Laundry Aide

Covenant Retirement Communities & Covenant Care; Cromwell (CT); On-site; USD 23,000 - 27,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision insurance

PTO & six paid holidays

403(b) with 3% employer match

Fitness center use

Job summary

Covenant Retirement Communities & Covenant Care is seeking a Laundry Attendant to pick up, launder, and redistribute residents' personal laundry and towels. You will label, sort, and distribute items to resident rooms and assist with linen distribution as needed.

The role requires independent work, English communication skills, and a willingness to work with older adults in a full-time facility setting. Benefits are included for full-time staff.

Qualifications

• One year high school education.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills, verbal and written in English.
• Previous housekeeping or laundry experience.
• Ability to work independently with limited supervision.
• Ability to organize routine schedule and duties to complete each day’s responsibilities.
• Be able to make independent decisions in the absence of supervisor.
• An interest in and desire to work with older adults.

Responsibilities

• Collect soiled resident clothing from resident rooms and from the utility rooms, and receive other items from nursing personnel for laundering.
• Separate items to be laundered and dry-cleaned by outside services, checking clothing and marking with name tags as needed.
• Check returned laundry and distribute to residents.
• Wash laundry at proper temperatures with proper kinds and amounts of detergents and other cleaning chemicals.
• Operate washing machine and dryer in laundry process.
• Advise supervisor of items that are worn out or unusable, so family can be notified.
• Launder posies, sheepskins, light bedspreads or other resident belongings as needed.
• Sort and distribute laundered items to resident rooms and storage areas as appropriate.
• Collect soiled hand towels from resident rooms and distribute clean towels.
• Advise supervisor of laundry supply needs.
• Assist in distribution of house linens from linen service as needed.
• Be familiar with duties and responsibilities of housekeeper position in order to fill in if needed.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication

Independence

Time management

Interest in older adults

Education

One year high school education

Tools

Laundry equipment

Job description

Covenant Retirement Communities & Covenant Care is seeking a Laundry Attendant to pick up, launder, and redistribute residents' personal laundry and towels. You will label, sort, and distribute items to resident rooms and assist with linen distribution as needed.

The role requires independent work, English communication skills, and a willingness to work with older adults in a full-time facility setting. Benefits are included for full-time staff.