Laundry Linen Aide

San Juan Regional Medical Center; Farmington (NM); On-site; USD 24,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

San Juan Regional Medical Center is seeking a Laundry Associate to support patient care by providing clean linen and a comfortable environment. You will work in the Laundry Department, following policies to ensure safe, orderly operations and timely service.

Responsibilities include handling laundry duties, maintaining clean storage areas, and assisting nursing and hospital staff as needed while adhering to SJRMC's Service Standards and safety protocols.

Qualifications

• Read, write, perform basic math, and communicate in English.
• Valid driver's license with clean driving record.
• Willingness to follow instructions and safety policies.

Responsibilities

• Implement Service Standards: Safety, Courtesy, Effectiveness, Stewardship.
• Distribute laundered articles and linens.
• Report injuries to supervisor and submit Quantros report.

Skills

Reading & writing

Numerical understanding

Driver's license

Job description

Creating Life Better Here starts with you. At San Juan Regional Medical Center, we're more than a healthcare provider - we're a values-driven organization dedicated to delivering exceptional care. As a team member, you help fulfill our mission to make life better here for our community. The Laundry Department facilitates laundry services to our patients and customers with Thoughtful Anticipation, by providing clean linen and a comfortable environment to improve our patients healing process. Working safely, keeping areas as orderly as possible, in accordance with established policies and procedures.

Required Behaviors

As you go about fulfilling this mission, your work habits and work relationships should embody SJRMC's values. These values are our culture, our identity as an organization. Sacred Trust, Personal Reverence, Thoughtful Anticipation, Team Accountability and Creative Vitality ask more of us than merely completing some list of tasks. Our values ask for a deeper level of commitment, and what is asked of us we freely give because we believe in our mission.

Required Qualifications

• Be able to read, write, work with numbers, and understand instructions and communicate in English
• Understanding of elementary math
• A valid driver license is a requirement and a clean driving record for this position

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to perform job duties and on the job training
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions; to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in or from standardized situations.
• Ability to perform basic arithmetic operation including, but not limited to addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
• Ability to perform daily operations using basic units including, but not limited to cups, pints, quarts, inches, feet, yards, ounces, and pounds.
• Keeps utility and storage rooms in clean and orderly condition
• Distributes laundered articles and linens
• May disinfect and sterilize equipment and supplies, using germicides and sterilizing equipment

Duties and Responsibilities

• Each employee is responsible for implementing SJRMC's Service Standards into their daily work: Safety, Courtesy, Effectiveness, and Stewardship
• Other duties as assigned
• Report all injuries to your supervisor and submit a Quantros report immediately following injury

Physical Demands and Environmental Work Conditions

• Constant standing, bending, lifting, pushing, pulling, and moving when performing job
• Able to lift up to fifty (50) pounds and maneuver items weighing much more with proper technique and equipment
• Works in laundry and assigned areas of the facility according to a schedule
• Subject to frequent interruptions
• Willingness to work beyond normal working hours & schedule when necessary
• Attend and participate in continuing education programs
• Works with various soaps, bleach, and other chemicals. Maybe subject to falls, burns and unpleasant odors
• Required to wear masks, gowns, gloves, shoe covers, and all Personal Protective Equipment required for completing job
• May be exposed to Infectious Diseases, Blood and Body substances, and contaminated linens
• Verbally communicates with Nursing Personnel, Patients, and other Hospital Personnel

As you go about fulfilling this mission, your work habits and work relationships should embody SJRMC's values. These values are our culture, our identity as an organization. Sacred Trust, Personal Reverence, Thoughtful Anticipation, Team Accountability and Creative Vitality ask more of us.

To learn more, visit us at http://www.sanjuanregional.com.