Description
REPORTS TO: Housekeeping Supervisor
SUPERVISES: No One
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Highschool diploma or equivalent
- Must be able to communicate verbally and in writing in English
- Physical Demands and Work Environment
- The employee is required to stand; walk; sit; reach with hands and arms and pull/push; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl
- The employee must lift and/or move up to 50 pounds without assistance and 51-100 pounds with assistance
- Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and the ability to adjust focus
Requirements
- Under direct supervision, ensures facility linens and residents’ personal clothing are properly collected, sorted, laundered, distributed, and/or stored according to facility policy
- Handles all laundry in compliance with sanitary guidelines
- Sorts all soiled laundry into appropriate categories
- Lifts and carries loads of laundry to and from cleaning equipment
- Washes, dries, folds, and hangs all laundry neatly and properly
- Identifies personal laundry with resident’s names and remarks personal clothing items if needed
- Uses appropriate PPE when handling contaminated clothing
- Performs other related duties as required or requested
- The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions
- While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear
- The employee frequently is required to use hands or finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls
- This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines
- Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments
- All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities
- To perform this job successfully, the incumbents will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently