Laundry Aide Part Time

Covenant Living Communities and Services; Carol Stream (IL); On-site; USD 21,000 - 27,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision insurance

403(b) with employer match

Paid time off and holidays

Life and disability insurance

Tuition assistance and scholarships

Employee assistance program

Pet insurance

Job summary

Covenant Living Communities and Services is seeking a Laundry Attendant to pick up, sort, launder, and redistribute personal laundry for residents. You will label items for external dry cleaning and ensure proper distribution back to resident rooms with attention to detail.

The role requires one year of high school education, good English communication, and prior laundry or housekeeping experience. Independent work and ability to coordinate daily duties are important.

Qualifications

• One year high school education.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills, verbal and written in English.
• Previous housekeeping or laundry experience.
• Ability to work independently with limited supervision.
• Ability to organize routine schedule and duties to complete each day’s responsibilities.
• Be able to make independent decisions in the absence of supervisor.
• An interest in and desire to work with older adults.

Responsibilities

• Collect soiled resident clothing from resident rooms and from the utility rooms.
• Separate items to be laundered and dry-cleaned by outside services, checking clothing and marking with name tags as needed.
• Check returned laundry and distribute to residents.
• Wash laundry at proper temperatures with proper kinds and amounts of detergents and other cleaning chemicals.
• Operate washing machine and dryer in laundry process.
• Advise supervisor of items that are worn out or unusable, so family can be notified.
• Launder posies, sheepskins, light bedspreads or other resident belongings as needed.
• Sort and distribute laundered items to resident rooms and storage areas as appropriate.
• Collect soiled hand towels from resident rooms and distribute clean towels.
• Advise supervisor of laundry supply needs.
• Assist in distribution of house linens from linen service as needed.
• Be familiar with duties and responsibilities of housekeeper position in order to fill in if needed.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

English communication

Independent worker

Time management

Education

High school education (1 year)

Job description

We Are Inspired to Serve. Join us! The purpose of this position is to pick up, sort, launder, and redistribute personal laundry for assigned residents. This position ensures the proper labeling and distribution of personal items to be laundered and dry cleaned by outside services and the redistribution of such items.

We Are Inspired to Serve. Join us! The purpose of this position is to pick up, sort, launder, and redistribute personal laundry for assigned residents. This position ensures the proper labeling and distribution of personal items to be laundered and dry cleaned by outside services and the redistribution of such items.

• Collect soiled resident clothing from resident rooms and from the utility rooms,

and receive other items from nursing personnel for laundering.

• Separate items to be laundered and dry‑cleaned by outside services, checking clothing and marking with name tags as needed.
• Check returned laundry and distribute to residents.
• Wash laundry at proper temperatures with proper kinds and amounts of detergents and other cleaning chemicals. Operate washing machine and dryer in laundry process.
• Advise supervisor of items that are worn out or unusable, so family can be notified.
• Launder posies, sheepskins, light bedspreads or other resident belongings as needed.
• Sort and distribute laundered items to resident rooms and storage areas as appropriate.
• Collect soiled hand towels from resident rooms and distribute clean towels.
• Advise supervisor of laundry supply needs.
• Assist in distribution of house linens from linen service as needed.
• Be familiar with duties and responsibilities of housekeeper position in order to fill in if needed.

Requirements

• One year high school education.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills, verbal and written in English.
• Previous housekeeping or laundry experience.
• Ability to work independently with limited supervision.
• Ability to organize routine schedule and duties to complete each day’s responsibilities.
• Be able to make independent decisions in the absence of supervisor.
• An interest in and desire to work with older adults.

Compensation Pay Range

$15.00 - $19.46 per hour

Reasonable Pay Estimate

A reasonable estimate of the pay range for this position is $15.00 - $19.46 per hour. There are numerous factors taken into consideration in determining the actual offered rate of pay, including but not limited to: job-related qualifications, experience, skills, education, geographic location, and consideration of internal and external equity.

Benefits

For full time employees, we offer a generous benefits package that includes:

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Employer paid group term life and disability
• Paid Time Off (PTO) & six paid holidays
• 403(b) with a 3% employer match
• Fitness center use at most facilities.
• Various voluntary benefits:
  • Life, AD&D
  • Tuition assistance and scholarships
  • Employee assistance program
  • Legal services, home/auto insurance, discount purchasing program
  • Pet Insurance

For more information about Covenant Living and CovenantCare at Home, please visit www.covliving.org or www.covenantcareathome.org.

Covenant Living and CovenantCare Home Health and Hospice are equal opportunity employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, protected veteran status, protected genetic information, or any other characteristics protected by local laws, regulations, or ordinances.