Patient Room Sanitation & Care Specialist

Compass Memorial; Iowa; On-site; USD 26,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Compass Memorial Healthcare is seeking a dedicated Environmental Services/Housekeeping Specialist to support daily cleaning and bedding replenishment in patient rooms and clinics.

Responsibilities include cleaning, sanitizing, laundry duties, waste disposal, and restocking supplies to ensure a safe, welcoming environment for patients, families, and staff.

This role emphasizes infection prevention, teamwork, and responsive service across CMH facilities.

Responsibilities

• Maintain cleanliness and orderliness as assigned throughout CMH and clinics.
• Dust, Clean, Sanitize all furniture, equipment and other items throughout facility.
• Empty all trash receptacles; transports trash and waste to disposal area.
• Sweeps and scrubs floors using broom or mops.
• Vacuum all carpeted floors, rugs or other furnishings.
• Washes walls, woodwork and windows.
• Keep storage and equipment areas clean and organized.
• Monitor cleaning checklist for other daily, weekly, and monthly duties.
• Ensure laundry is completed daily.
• Ensure patient’s laundry is returned daily.
• Maintain patient rooms by cleaning and sanitizing beds, tables, stands, chairs and miscellaneous furnishings.
• Ensuring patients rooms are clean and sanitized and ready for admits at all times.
• Upon patient discharged, ensure rooms are cleaned, sanitized and replenished.
• Cleans, sanitized and replenished bathrooms as necessary.
• Distributes clean linens to proper areas, closets; and keeps those areas neat and clean.
• Removes soiled linens and places in designated areas.
• Maintains neat, clean and orderly cleaning carts and equipment.
• Maintains neat, clean and orderly storage areas.
• Ensures hallways/rooms are free from equipment/clutter.
• Respond to any housekeeping calls or pages, answering and completing assignment or request in a timely manner.
• Demonstrate ability to use and regulated equipment and chemicals used by Environmental Services department.
• Recognizes unsafe conditions and reports as necessary to maintain a safe workplace.
• Demonstrates a general knowledge of all cleaning products and procedures.
• Recognizes supplies needed throughout facility and specific to departments/areas.

Job description

Compass Memorial Healthcare is seeking a dedicated Environmental Services/Housekeeping Specialist to support daily cleaning and bedding replenishment in patient rooms and clinics.

Responsibilities include cleaning, sanitizing, laundry duties, waste disposal, and restocking supplies to ensure a safe, welcoming environment for patients, families, and staff.

This role emphasizes infection prevention, teamwork, and responsive service across CMH facilities.