Housekeeping Worker

Northwell Health; New York (NY); On-site; USD 38,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Northwell Health is seeking an Environmental Services professional to maintain clean, sanitary and orderly conditions throughout the Medical Center. You will clean patient rooms, offices, lavatories and common areas, service equipment, and handle waste in a safe, compliant manner.

Responsibilities include cleaning discharge rooms and isolation areas per infection control standards, maintaining carts and closets, and ensuring paper products are stocked.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or equivalent, preferred.
• Environmental Services experience in a hospital, preferred.
• Must possess effective communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate good judgment and organization when performing cleaning duties on units.
• Responsible for maintaining equipment, carts and closets daily.
• Clean and service patient rooms, offices, lavatories, conference rooms, lounges, exam rooms, on-call rooms, clean and dirty utility rooms, showers daily.
• Trash removal, vacuuming carpets, dry mop and wet mop floors, high and low dusting of furniture, walls, ledges and fixtures.
• Refill all paper towel, toilet paper, seat cover and soap dispensers daily.
• Notify supervisor of injuries, safety issues or serious personnel situations.
• Clean, disinfect patient rooms on discharge and cycle clean isolation rooms per control standards.
• Clean Operating rooms between cases, terminally clean OR rooms at end of day.
• Collect trash from dirty utility room and dispose of it.
• Remove cardboard and dispose of it.
• Collect regulated waste and transport to storage trailer.
• Remove and hang cubicle curtains when necessary.
• Be flexible to take on required assignments with initiative.
• Performs related duties as required.

Skills

Cleaning

Communication

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent

Job description

Job Description

Maintains clean, sanitary and orderly condition to the assigned exterior/ interior areas of the Medical Center.

Job Responsibility

• * Demonstrate good judgment and organization skills when performing cleaning duties on units.
• * Responsible for maintaining equipment, carts and closets daily.
• * Clean and service patient rooms, offices, lavatories, conference rooms, lounges, exam rooms, on-call rooms, clean and dirty utility rooms, showers daily.
• * Trash removal, vacuuming carpets, dry mop and wet mop floors, high and low dusting of furniture, walls, ledges and fixtures.
• * Refill all paper towel, toilet paper, seat cover and soap dispensers daily.
• * Knowledgeable of all environmental cleaning products (chemicals) and their proper usage (dilutions) as per manufacturer's recommendations.
• * Notify supervisor immediately of any injuries (accidents), safety issues or serious personnel situation.
• * Responsible for cleaning, disinfecting of patient rooms upon discharge, as well as, cycle cleaning of isolation rooms as per department and infection control standards.
• * Clean Operating rooms between cases, terminally clean OR rooms at the end of the day.
• * Collect trash from dirty utility room and dispose of same.
• * Remove all cardboard and dispose of same.
• * Collect regulated waste and transport to storage trailer.
• * Responsible for removal and hanging of cubicle curtains, when necessary.
• * Must be flexible in assuming required assignments and able to show good judgment and initiative.
• Performs related duties as required.

*ADA Essential Functions

Physical Demands:

• Ability to fill and dump 3 - 5 gallon pails filled with water (weighing up to 25 pounds)
• Ability to move cleaning cart on wheels (filled with supplies - weighing up to 100 pounds)
• Ability to step up on a safety stool 2 - 4 steps
• Ability to lift hands over head to hang and take down cubicle curtains (weighing up to 20 pounds), wash ceilings, walls and high windows
• Ability to move patient furniture
• Requires continuous moving, lifting and bending (for 7 1/2 hour shifts)
• Must be able to communicate face-to-face and by telephone.

Job Qualification

• High School Diploma or equivalent, preferred.
• Environmental Services experience in a hospital, preferred.
• Must possess effective communication skills.

*Additional Salary Detail
The salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future.When determining a team member's base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal equity).