Lead Housekeeper

St. David's HealthCare; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

St. David's North Austin Medical Center is seeking a Lead Housekeeper to join St. David's HealthCare. You will supervise environmental services, clean patient rooms, and ensure high standards of sanitation and patient comfort.

This role requires at least one year of housekeeping experience; a High School Diploma or GED is preferred. You will coordinate staff, maintain equipment, and follow AIDET/ICARE principles to enhance patient satisfaction.

Qualifications

• Minimum of one year housekeeping experience
• HS diploma or GED preferred

Responsibilities

• Assist manager with training, inspecting, equipment maintenance, and supply inventory/restocking.
• Cover a area when staffing is short.
• Operate basic floor care equipment.
• Clean floor care equipment.
• Strip and wax hard floors.
• Clean carpets and upholstery; burnish and scrub.
• Remove trash, linen, biohazard waste, and chemo waste.
• Move beds as needed.
• Set up meetings and events as required.
• Clock in/out and sign time sheets.
• Obtain pager/phone at shift start and return promptly.
• Clean occupied, discharged, and isolation patient rooms.
• Maintain good interpersonal and customer service relations (AIDET/ICARE).
• Prepare carts with supplies; prevent cross contamination.
• Report damaged equipment to manager.
• Understand standard precautions; proper hand-washing; PPE use.

Skills

Customer service

Communication

AIDET ICARE

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

• Responsible for cleaning discharged patient rooms.

Do you have the career opportunities as a Lead Housekeeper you want with your current employer? We have an exciting opportunity for you to join St. David's North Austin Medical Center which is part of the nation's leading provider of healthcare services, HCA Healthcare.

Job Summary And Qualifications

Cleans and services facility. Performs a variety of environmental services duties to maintain the hospital in a neat, orderly, and sanitary condition. Participates in providing patient specific care standards as directed, and follows service excellence standards to ensure high levels of patient satisfaction.

ESSENTIAL JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Assists manager with training, inspecting, equipment maintenance, and supply inventory/restocking.
• Must cover an area when staffing is short.
• Must be able to use basic floor care equipment.
• Must properly clean floor care equipment.
• Responsible for stripping/waxing of hard floors.
• Responsible for burnishing, scrubbing, spot carpet, extract carpet, and upholster cleaning.
• Responsible for removing trash, linen, bio hazardous waste, and chemo waste appropriately.
• Responsible for the movement of beds as needed.
• Responsible for the setting up requesting meetings and events.
• Responsible for signing in and out of the time sheets.
• Responsible for clocking in and out appropriately.
• Responsible for obtaining a working pager/phone at the beginning of the shift.
• Responsible for returning pages in a timely manner.
• Responsible for cleaning occupied patient rooms.
• Responsible for cleaning discharged patient rooms.
• Responsible for cleaning isolation rooms.
• Must have good interpersonal relationships and customer service skills in adherence with AIDET and ICARE behavioral standards.
• Proper cart set-up to avoid cross contamination.
• Organizes cart in preparation of job assignment by stocking properly with all necessary supplies.
• Uses cleaning material, supplies, and prepared solutions according to procedure.
• Reports all damaged equipment to manager.
• Purpose of disinfecting.
• Meaning of standard precautions.
• Practices proper hand-washing procedures.
• Uses appropriate personal protective equipment.
• Understands isolation and signage.
• Frequently changes gloves.
• Handles biohazard waste appropriately.

Education and Experience

Required: Minimum of one year previous housekeeping experience

Preferred: High School Diploma or GED

Benefits

St. David's North Austin Medical Center, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

Learn More About Employee Benefits

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

St. David’s North Austin Medical Center, part of St. David’s HealthCare, is a full-service medical center providing comprehensive medical care at two locations – St. David’s North Austin Medical Center and St. David’s Surgical Hospital.

St. David’s North Austin Medical Center is a 460+ bed, multi-specialty, acute care hospital. It provides advanced women’s health services, including maternity and newborn care with Level I, II, and III neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) at the nearby St. David’s Women’s Center of Texas. The hospital also offers minimally invasive gynecological surgery and comprehensive breast imaging through Solis Mammography, which is located on-site. Other services include a 24-hour emergency department, pediatric emergency care, and intensive care at St. David’s Children’s Hospital. The hospital also features the Texas Institute for Robotic Surgery, bariatric (weight loss) surgery, a Heart and Vascular Center, neurology and neurosurgery, a kidney transplant program, a Level IV Epilepsy Center, as well as inpatient and outpatient surgery and acute rehabilitation services for both inpatients and outpatients.

St. David’s Women’s Center of Texas, located at St. David's North Austin Medical Center, is recognized by the State of Texas as a Level IV Maternal Facility. This means it provides the highest level of care for pregnant and postpartum patients, especially those at high risk for maternal morbidity or mortality. The center includes a 95+ bed Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) with 30+ private rooms, 10+ rooms for very small babies, and 10+ beds for babies needing neurological care. It also has 35+ labor, delivery, and recovery rooms, including Central Texas’ first low-intervention birthing suites with tubs. There are 95+ postpartum beds, 20+ antepartum beds, and Cesarean section surgical suites. The facility offers 24/7 neonatology coverage, OB/GYN hospitalists, maternal-fetal medicine specialists, lactation consultants, and a midwifery program. It is part of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units Network and TexasAIM, and it also provides a high-risk pregnancy navigation and support program.

St. David's Surgical Hospital is part of St. David’s North Austin Medical Center and is the first Level 4 Epilepsy Center in Central Texas for both adults and children. It has its own 24-hour emergency department, a medical-surgical inpatient unit, and a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) for patients ages 17 and under. The hospital is staffed with pediatric emergency physicians, pediatric hospitalists, intensivists, and other specialists who are specially trained to care for children. It also includes certified child-life specialists who help kids feel more comfortable during their hospital stay. St. David’s Children’s Hospital offers many pediatric services, such as pediatric surgery, pediatric radiology (including imaging and interventional procedures), and pediatric anesthesia for surgical support. It also has a wide range of pediatric specialists available for consultation and treatment, including general surgery, ENT (ear, nose, and throat), craniofacial and plastic surgery, neurology, neurosurgery, urology, and cardiology, among others.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

“Bricks and mortar do not make a hospital. People do.”- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.

HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.