Senior Custodian – Mid Wilshire

Veterans in Healthcare; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 36,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

UCLA Health in Los Angeles is hiring custodial staff to clean patient rooms, nursing stations, and common areas. You will operate cleaning equipment and ensure high standards of hygiene across patient care areas.

Under supervision, you will perform floor care, move between patient and clinical spaces, and follow safety guidelines for disinfectants and supplies. This role requires reliability and teamwork in a hospital setting.

Qualifications

• Experience in healthcare cleaning preferred.
• Knowledge of disinfectants, cleaning solutions, and floor finishes.

Responsibilities

• Clean assigned areas including patient rooms, nursing stations, and exam rooms.
• Operate cleaning equipment such as vacuum cleaners, buffers, shampoo machines, and floor machines.
• Sweep, strip and wax floors, perform isolation room cleaning, dust surfaces.
• Maintain safe handling and storage of cleaning agents.

Skills

Cleaning

Disinfectants handling

Attention to detail

Teamwork

Tools

Vacuum cleaners

Floor machines

Buffers

Job description

Work Location Los Angeles,CA Job #27480 Work Hours 7:00am - 3:30pm on variable days with rotating weekends including holidays Employment Type 2 - Staff- Career

Duration Indefinite Salary Range $26.69-34.5 Hourly Posted Date August 28, 2026 Bargaining Unit AFSCME - SX

Make a difference in people's lives every day. When you join UCLA Health, you'll be working at an institution that provides leading-edge care to the people of L.A. and throughout the world. We provide our team members with the environment and support to do amazing work, because each and every one of them plays a vital role in our commitment to care.

Job Duties

Serving at UCLA Health will give you the opportunity to use your specialized abilities to help improve the lives of our patients, their families, and your fellow UCLA Health team members. You'll provide critical support that makes healing happen. We'd love to have you join us. Under the supervision of a Custodial Supervisor - Clean assigned areas, patient rooms, nursing station, ancillary rooms, exam rooms, procedure rooms, conference rooms, office's, hallways, corridor, public areas, etc. Operate vacuum cleaners, buffers, wall and window washing, shampoo machines and floor machine. Sweep, strip and wax floors. Perform isolation room cleaning. Perform high and low dusting. Clean vertical and horizontal surfaces using the approved cleaning solutions. They have knowledge in the correct use and storage of disinfectants, cleaning solution, soap, detergents and floor waxes preferred.

Job Qualifications

Salary Range: $21.05 - 27.21 / hour Effective June 22, 2025, employees represented by the AFSCME Union will receive a minimum wage of $25.