Environmental Services Assistant/Housekeeping

UPMC; Fairview Township (Erie County); On-site; USD 18,000 - 23,000; Full time

Job summary

UPMC Altoona is seeking a full-time Housekeeping staff member for the dayshift from 6:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., with weekend and holiday rotation. The starting pay for this position is $14.64 per hour.

This role involves operating departmental equipment, cleaning patient areas, and maintaining hospital sanitation standards. Responsibilities include cleaning patient rooms and common areas, handling waste per infection control guidelines, and ensuring equipment is properly stored after use.

Responsibilities

• Operate all departmental equipment safely and maintain equipment after use.
• Climb ladders to hang cubicle/window drapes for cleaning.
• Clean and service hospital areas, move furniture and supplies as needed.
• Wash walls, ceilings, windows by hand or machine; clean fixtures.
• Move files and assist with heavy equipment as directed.
• Use chemicals safely per guidelines; wear PPE as required.
• Disinfect areas using approved germicide cleaners.
• Clean patient rooms after transfers or discharges per infection control procedures.
• Collect regular and infectious waste per guidelines.
• Clean sinks, tubs, mirrors; service dispensers.
• Complete daily quality checks and communicate improvements.
• Sweep, mop, vacuum, and scrub floors and stairways.
• Receive daily assignments and manage supplies; return unused items.
• Perform repetitive cleaning tasks maintaining sanitary areas.
• Prepare cleaning supplies and equipment for assigned areas.
• Make discharge beds with fresh linen; request help for heavy moves; report shortages.

Job description

UPMC Altoona is hiring for full-time dayshift Housekeeping!!! This position will work 6:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. with rotation as needed. This position does require weekend and holiday rotation.

Starting pay for this position is $14.64

a part of the AFSCME union

Responsibilities:

• Employee operates all departmental equipment in a safe, orderly, and efficient manner. Upon completion of equipment usage, must maintain equipment before putting back in the proper storage location; i.e., wipe the entire machine down, wrap the cords in a neat orderly fashion after cleaning assigned areas.
• Climbs ladders to hang cubicle drapes and window drapes or to reach areas for other cleaning/disinfecting purposes.
• Cleans and services hospital building areas, moves furniture, equipment, and supplies in and around hospital departments, and performs a variety of housekeeping and other duties to maintain the hospital in an orderly and sanitary condition as assigned.
• Washes walls, ceilings, and inside windows, by hand, using water, cleaning solution, sponge, and cloths or machine; may be called upon to wash outside windows and screens. Washes drapes, cubicles, mops, and rags when requested by the Supervisor or Department Director.Gathers and disposes of refuse; washes wastebaskets and large refuse containers and relines with plastic bags; cleans light fixtures, tops of windows, door frames and other high places using ladders or scaffolds when necessary.
• When requested by Supervision, moves equipment, furniture, bulk moves of files both on and off site; procurement and/or return of files from an already established filing system
• Uses chemicals in a safe/efficient manner according to Hospital/departmental guidelines. Responsibility of employees to wear all personal protective equipment as required.
• Disinfects areas by scrubbing and spraying with approved germicide cleaner
• Terminally cleans and disinfects all patient rooms, isolation rooms, floors; beds, restrooms, furniture and equipment after a transfer or discharge from a patient following Infection Control procedures.
• Collects all regular and infectious waste in a manner established by the Infection Control Committee and/or infectious waste guidelines.
• Scours, polishes, and washes sinks, tubs, mirrors, and other plumbing fixtures; cleans water coolers and replaces disposables, such as towels, soap, liquid soap dispensers, and toilet tissue.
• Employee will be held accountable for daily and routine quality checks/reviews and to make all improvements that are deemed necessary.
• Sweeps, mops, vacuums, and wet scrubs floors, halls, and stairways.
• Receives daily assignment and supplies; transports them to the work area. At the end of shift, returns unused supplies to hopper and/or supply room; also returns used and unused mops, cleans utility cart and equipment.
• Performs repetitive tasks in maintaining an assigned area of the Hospital in a sanitary, orderly, and attractive condition.
• Assembles necessary cleaning supplies and equipment for transporting to the assigned work area.
• Makes discharge beds with clean linen in the prescribed manner. Requests help in heavy furniture or equipment moves; notifies supervisor when supplies are low; reports any mechanical failure or conditions as observed in assigned areas for preparation of work request for Engineering Department. .