Housekeeping Aide

Westchester Medical Center Health Network; Town of Warwick (NY); On-site; USD 21,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Wmchealth in New York is hiring a Housekeeping - Laundry Aide to support the Linen Room and maintain a clean, safe hospital environment. You will perform day-to-day linen handling, inventory, and housekeeping duties, ensuring accurate records and compliance with infection control standards.

The role requires basic English literacy and reliability; prior hospital laundry experience is preferred. This position reports to the Linen Team Leader and involves coordinating with multiple departments to

Qualifications

• Prior housekeeping, laundry with hospital experience preferred.
• Must be able to read and write English; high school diploma not required.

Responsibilities

• Maintains departmental policies and safety, infection control standards.
• Assists in inventory and ordering linen supplies to maintain par levels.
• Receives, signs invoices, and moves linen carts between vendor, linen room and user areas.
• Sweeps and damp mops floors, dusts shelves and carts, and keeps linen room orderly.
• Supports other departments as needed and participates in training sessions.

Skills

Housekeeping

Laundry

Hospital experience

Job description

The Housekeeping - Laundry Aide performs day-to-day functions in the Linen room to maintain a safe, sanitary, attractive, and orderly facility.

Responsibilities:

• Maintains established departmental policies and procedures, objectives, quality assurance program, safety, environmental and infection control standards.
• Assists management in maintaining an accurate inventory on all items in Linen Room.
• Helps complete all required reports and forms accurately and on time.
• Restocks user area linen carts in accordance with established linen par levels.
• Receives clean linen from the laundry, sign invoices, and moves carts to clean Linen Room.
• Removes clean linen from vendor's carts to user's carts or storage shelves.
• Sweeps and damp mops floors, dust shelves and carts.
• Ensures that all available soiled linen is removed from the user's area to soiled linen holding area for transport to laundry.
• Assists Linen Team Leader or Department Director in ordering new linen supplies to maintain user area par levels.
• Assists and supports other departments when needed.
• Participates in education programs and in-service meetings.
• Performs Linen Room housekeeping functions to insure linen room cleanliness.
• Performs related duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS/REQUIREMENTS:Prior housekeeping, laundry with hospital experience preferred.

Education:

Must be able to read and write English; high school diploma not required.

Other:

If applicable, the individual performing this job may reasonably anticipate coming into contact with human blood and other potentially infectious materials. Individuals in this position are required to exercise universal precautions, use personal protective equipment and devices, and learn the policies concerning infection control.