Housekeeper

Baptist Health; Paducah (KY); Hybrid; USD 19,000 - 23,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tuition assistance

Paid time off

Maternity and paternity leave

Bereavement leave (pets)

Employee Assistance Program

Retirement plans with company match

Job summary

Baptist Health in Paducah, KY seeks a full-time Housekeeper for the first shift (7:00 a.m.–3:30 p.m.) to maintain a safe, hygienic, and aesthetically pleasing care environment. This role involves healthcare cleaning, disinfection, and adherence to infection prevention protocols.

The position requires 1–2 years of customer service or hospitality/environmental services experience, and offers benefits including tuition assistance, paid time off, maternity/paternity leave, bereavement (including

Qualifications

• 1-2 years of Customer Service, 1-2 years of Hospitality, and/or 1-2 years of Environmental Services experience

Responsibilities

• Performs duties following healthcare cleaning and disinfection principles and requirements, proper chemical use, equipment handling, and labor-saving products for all items serviced.
• Follows infection prevention practices (PPE, hand hygiene, standard & isolation precautions) and safety guidelines.
• Removes waste and transports to disposal areas while identifying proper waste streams (regulated medical, recycle, solid, hazardous).

Skills

Customer service

Hospitality

Environmental services

Job description

Summary Job Description

Housekeeper Full Time, First Shift 7a-3:30p The Housekeeper is responsible for executing the daily duties required to establish and maintain a safe, hygienic, and aesthetically pleasing care environment.

Job Duties

Performs duties while demonstrating working knowledge of the health care cleaning and disinfecting principles and requirements, proper and safe chemical use, equipment handling, and labor-saving products for all items within the healthcare environment for which tasked with servicing. Follows all infection prevention practices (i.e. proper cleaning and disinfection protocols and process, hand hygiene, standard & isolation precautions, as well as proper donning and doffing of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). Adheres to all organization safety, risk management and infection control guidelines and standards while promoting a culture of safety. Removes waste and transports to the appropriate disposal area while identifying proper waste streams handling (i.e. regulated medical, recycle, solid, and hazardous.

Preferred Requirements

1-2 years of Customer Service, 1-2 years of Hospitality, and/or 1-2 years of Environmental Services experience

Benefits

• Tuition Assistance reimbursement program
• Paid Time Off available for use upon hire
• Company paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Bereavement Leave (includes pets)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Retirement plans with company match

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410‑bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40‑bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama. Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.

EEO Statement

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law. Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team.

NOTICE OF NONDISCRMISSION AND ACCESSIBILITY TO SERVICES Persons with hearing and speech impairments can contact Baptist Health facilities by using the Kentucky Relay Service, a toll‑free telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD). For voice to TDD, call 800.648.6057. For TDD to voice, call 800.648.6056.

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