Laundry Aide

Gowanda Rehabilitation & Nursing Center; Town of Persia (NY); On-site; USD 17,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

Gowanda Rehabilitation & Nursing Center is seeking a Laundry Aide to manage linens and resident laundry in a clean, safe environment.

You will deliver and collect laundry, maintain organized laundry rooms, and follow all building policies and daily schedules; on-the-job training provided to ensure smooth operations and resident comfort.

Qualifications

• Team member capable of cooperating with staff.
• Maintain confidentiality of patient and employee information.
• On-the-job training available for experience in commercial laundry.

Responsibilities

• Work cooperatively as a team.
• Keeps confidential all patient/employee information received.
• Processes linens and resident laundry per building policy.
• Delivers clean linens to nursing units per schedule.
• Collects soiled linens daily.
• Delivers clean laundry to residents' closets, neat and wrinkle-free.
• Maintains laundry rooms in a clean, organized condition.
• Performs daily cleaning and sanitizing of laundry areas.
• Reports malfunctioning equipment and maintenance concerns.
• Uses supplies as directed and adheres to policies.
• Other duties from Environmental Services Director.

Skills

Teamwork

Confidentiality

Education

High school graduate or GED

Job description

Laundry Aide

This position is responsible to perform the duties necessary to ensure that the building's linens and resident's personal laundry is processed in a clean, safe, and efficient manner.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Must be able to work cooperatively as a team

• Keeps confidential all patient/employee information received

• Processes linens in accordance to building policy

• Processes resident's personal laundry in accordance to building policy

• Delivers the appropriate amount of clean linens to the nursing units according to schedule

• Collects soiled linens and resident's personal laundry from the nursing units on a daily scheduled basis

• Delivers clean resident's personal laundry on a daily basis ensuring that items are neat, wrinkle free, and in the correct resident's closet

• Maintains laundry rooms in clean, organized condition

• Performs daily cleaning in the laundry rooms including sweeping, wet mopping, dusting, and sanitizing surfaces to ensure a clean and sanitary work area

• Reports any malfunctioning equipment as soon as identified

• Reports any maintenance concerns identified

• Uses supplies as directed and in the appropriate quantity

• Adheres to the facility policies and procedures

• Other duties as determined by the Environmental Services Director.

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential duties.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

• High school student/graduate or have GED preferred

• Some experience working in a commercial laundry environment preferred, but on the job training will be provided

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice. All pay rates and bonuses are paid and/ or awarded to employees based on the facilities policy and/ or the CBA, depending on the position.