Description
Position Summary
The Laundry & Housekeeping employee is responsible for maintaining a clean, sanitary, organized, and welcoming environment for clients and staff at Recovery Centers of Montana. This full-time position performs housekeeping, laundry, linen management, and sanitation duties within a residential treatment facility.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
Housekeeping
- Clean and sanitize client rooms, common areas, bathrooms, offices, hallways, and other assigned areas.
- Sweep, mop, vacuum, dust, and disinfect surfaces.
- Clean and sanitize bathrooms, including toilets, showers, sinks, mirrors, and fixtures.
- Empty trash and replace liners.
- Restock paper products, soap, cleaning supplies, and other facility necessities.
- Complete routine and scheduled deep-cleaning tasks.
- Assist with preparing rooms for new client admissions.
- Promptly report maintenance concerns, safety hazards, damage, or sanitation issues.
- Follow RCM infection-control, sanitation, and safety procedures.
Laundry & Linen
- Collect, sort, wash, dry, fold, and distribute facility laundry and linens.
- Maintain adequate supplies of clean towels, bedding, and other linens.
- Keep laundry rooms and equipment clean, sanitary, and organized.
- Follow appropriate procedures for handling soiled or potentially contaminated laundry.
- Monitor laundry and housekeeping supplies and notify the supervisor when items need to be reordered.
- Report damaged or malfunctioning laundry equipment.
Requirements
Qualifications
- High school diploma or equivalent preferred.
- Previous housekeeping, laundry, hospitality, healthcare, or residential facility experience preferred but not required.
- Dependable and able to maintain a consistent full-time work schedule.
- Ability to work independently and manage assigned responsibilities.
- Organized and attentive to detail.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and appropriate professional boundaries with clients.
- Ability to follow safety, sanitation, infection-control, and workplace procedures.
- Must successfully complete required RCM employment screenings and trainings.
Physical Requirements
- Ability to stand and walk for extended periods.
- Ability to bend, reach, push, pull, and perform repetitive movements.
- Ability to lift and carry laundry, linens, supplies, and equipment associated with routine housekeeping duties.
- Ability to safely operate standard housekeeping and laundry equipment.
Work Environment
This position works within a residential behavioral health and recovery treatment environment. The employee will have regular interaction with clients and staff and is expected to maintain professionalism, confidentiality, appropriate boundaries, and a recovery-supportive environment.