Veriable days and hours

PURPOSE:   

Job Summary:  The Housekeeper position cleans and services the hospital building and patient care areas. This position aids the Housekeeping Department in achieving its primary goal of maintaining an orderly and clean hospital, both to standards of general appearance and to standards of infection control. This position also assists toward certain ancillary functions of the Housekeeping department such as the setting up of conference facilities, and the reporting of items needing maintenance.

Education Background and Experience

  Minimum Qualifications:

· High school graduate or GED

Professional Requirements

· Adheres to dress code, appearance is neat and clean.

· Completes annual organization-required and/or job-required educational requirements.

· Maintains regulatory requirements

· Wears identification while on duty.

· Attends staff meetings and/or reads all meeting minutes

· Reports to work on time and as scheduled, completes work within designated time.

· Maintains employee/patient confidentiality.

· Represents the organization in a positive and professional manner.

· Participates in the department’s performance improvement activities

· Demonstrates the mission, ethics, and goals of the organization as well as the departmental Scope of Service.

· Communication with patients, guests, family, and staff is courteous, respectful, and helpful.

· Maintains a clean, safe, and accident-free environment.

· Follows Infection Control procedures at all times.

• Clinical Personnel:  Strictly adheres to standard precautions by adhering to the usage of       personal protective equipment when handling blood or body fluids.
• Non-Clinical  Personnel:  Washes hands and other skin surfaces with soap and water thoroughly and       often in an effort to control spreading of germs within the department       and facility.
• Adheres       to isolation procedures at all times as applicable.

· Adheres to the following environmental care standards. 

• Demonstrates  adequate knowledge of safety policies and procedures, the use of MSDS sheets, hazardous material procedures, and safety codes.
• Respond   appropriately to any Codes while working any shift (Code Blue, Code Gray, Code Silver, Code Amber, Code Red, Code Orange, and Rapid Response Team).       
• Demonstrates adequate knowledge of security issues, i.e., personal protection, protection of personal and hospital property.

· Participates in quality initiatives as needed.

· Be familiar with and comply with the Mid-Valley Hospital & Clinic Personnel Handbook and Policies.

• Be familiar with the collective bargaining agreement (Union Contract) of the      UFCW3000 and Mid-Valley Hospital. 

Essential Job Functions

· Quickly assembles necessary cleaning supplies and equipment at the beginning of each shift, and proceeds to work in a timely fashion.

· Thoroughly dust mops and wet mops various hard surface floor areas, either routinely or when needed, to obtain a quality appearance and sanitary condition. 

· Thoroughly vacuums various carpeted floor areas, either routinely or when needed, to obtain a quality appearance.

· Cleans bathrooms according to training and policy and procedure. This involves washing sinks, plumbing fixtures, and toilets with a germicidal solution. 

· Replaces disposables such as paper towels, soap, toilet paper and plastic trash liners as needed.

· Removes trash from various receptacles and transports it to the Soiled Utility areas, or the dumpster, carefully observing established policy and procedures.

· Routine cleans various support areas of the hospital such as Radiology, Physical Therapy, Business Offices, Maintenance, Dietary, Utilities, etc. and achieves high quality results.

· Cleans patient rooms and other nursing areas like the Emergency Rooms to high standards of infection control in a careful manner. 

· Cleans patient rooms after a discharge, thoroughly and carefully according to policy and procedure, and in a timely manner. 

· May occasionally deep clean an area following instructions and the training provided.

· Required use and knowledge of the buffing machine to help return hard surface floors to a clean and shiny appearance. Must be able to follow training to avoid injury or damage to furniture or floors. 

· May clean the Operating Rooms after surgery according to policy and procedures in a careful and thorough manner.

· Cleaning and moving chairs and furniture in order to set up the Conference Rooms for scheduled conferences; and to clean up after these meetings. Achieves a quality appearance in a timely manner.

· May work in the Long Term Care portion of the hospital, always treating the residents with respect, and following training and policy in an effort to attain high standards of order and cleanliness in this area. 

· May be asked to help train newly hired Housekeepers, or to do some specific retraining if needed in a particular instance.

· Works to stock Housekeeping supplies in the various janitor's closets, according to established procedures and in a timely manner. 

· Transports used wet and dust mops from janitor's closets to the Laundry Dept. for their cleaning.

· Should write work orders promptly and clearly in response to observing anything that needs the attention of the Maintenance Dept. 

· Helps in the effort to recycle aluminum, glass, paper, and cardboard by breaking down boxes, and transporting the collected materials as instructed.

· May be asked to sweep gravel and sand from the entrances to the hospital or from the loading dock area. 

· Washes windows, glassed areas, and mirrors to attain a clean and streak-free appearance. 

· Obtains and climbs a ladder to reach high areas for cleaning, and for the removal and replacement of curtains. 

· Occasionally lifts heavy objects in the process of dumping water from a mop bucket, moving case lots of supplies, moving furniture during the cleaning process, throwing trash into the dumpster, loading laundry, etc.

· Cleans the housekeeping cart, equipment, and janitor's closet in a careful manner at the end of each shift; restocks the housekeeping cart with supplies for the next shift.

· Cleans assigned areas by washing furnishings, floors and equipment with special cleaning solutions and disinfectants to prevent spread of disease.

· Uses dust cloths and vacuum cleaner to dust windowsills, blinds, floors and furniture.

· Empties ashtrays and trash baskets and arranges furniture and equipment in an orderly fashion.

· Makes beds with clean linen in prescribed manner.

· Scours and polishes sink, mirrors and similar equipment, replenishing supplies of soap, towel and other dispensable items.

· Requests help in moving heavy furniture and in turning mattresses.

· Will be responsible for stripping, cleaning, laundering and making the labor room beds.

· Will clean the delivery room complete with table and stands.

· Will be responsible for clean linen and distribution to departments.

· Responsible for stripping and waxing floors in all rooms and halls. Vents in all rooms and halls removed and cleaned.

The above job summary and essential job functions are intended to describe the nature and level of work being performed. It is not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel for this job classification.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

1. Minimum Reasoning ability usually associated with this classification: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagrammatic form; to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in or from standardized situations.

2. Minimum Math ability usually associated with this classification: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide all units of measure; to perform the four operations with like or common decimal fractions; to compute ratio, rate, and percent; to draw and interpret bar graphs; to perform arithmetic operations involving All-American monetary units.

3. Minimum Language ability usually associated with this classification: Read: Ability to read a variety of novels, magazines, atlases, and encyclopedias; to read safety rules, instructions in the use and maintenance of shop tools and equipment, and methods and procedures in mechanical drawing and layout work.

Read/Write: Ability to read/write reports and essays with proper format, punctuation, spelling, and grammar, using all parts of English speech.

Speak: Ability to speak before audience with poise, voice control, and confidence, using correct English and well-modulated voice.

4. Amount of training, either on-the-job or formal education, usually associated with this occupation in addition to the Reasoning, Math and Language abilities detailed above: May not require, but prefer over 1 year and up to and including 2 years past experience. On-the-job training may be offered.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

5. Degree of Physical Demands (Strength) usually associated with the essential functions of this classification: Medium Work: Occasional heavy work of moving objects in excess of 100 pounds and lifting and carrying of items weighing 50 pounds or more. Frequent lifting, bending, and carrying of items weighing up to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.

6. Type of Physical Demands usually associated with the essential functions of this classification: Reaching, Handling, Fingering, and/or Feeling: (Reaching - Extending the hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction). (Handling - Seizing, holding, grasping, turning, or otherwise working with hand or hands (fingering not involved)). (Fingering - Picking, pinching, or otherwise working with fingers primarily (rather than with whole hand or arm as in handling)). (Feeling - Perceiving attributes of objects such as size, shape, temperature, or texture by means of receptors in skin, particularly those of fingertips). Talking and/or Hearing: (Talking - Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken word). (Hearing - Perceiving nature of sounds by ear). Seeing: The ability to perceive the nature of objects by the eye. The important aspects of vision are:

a. Acuity, far - Clarity of vision at 20 feet or more.

b. Acuity, near - Clarity of vision at 20 inches or less.

c. Depth Perception - Three-dimensional vision. Ability to judge distance and space relationships so as to see objects where and as they actually are.

d. Field of Vision - Area that can be seen up and down or to right or left while eyes are fixed on a given point.

e. Accommodation - Adjustment of lens of eye to bring an object into sharp focus. This item is especially important when doing near-point work at varying distances from eye.

f. Color Vision - Ability to identify and distinguish colors.

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS-HAZARDS:

7. Environmental Conditions (Physical Surroundings) usually associated with this classification: The Worker is usually Subject to Inside Environmental Conditions: Protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes. On occasion, the position may require limited outside duties that could result working in cold and wet conditions.

8. Environmental Conditions (Hazards) usually associated with this classification: No environmental hazards indicated for this classification.

9. Machines, Tools, Equipment, and Work Aids, which may be representative but not all-inclusive, of those commonly, associated with this type of work. Power Sweeper, High Speed Buffers, Vibrator, Washing Machines, Pumps, Brooms, Brushes, Mops, Scrapers, Shovels, Squeegees, Wringers, Power Blower, scales, Wet or Dry Vacuum Cleaners, Buckets, Cleaning Cloths, Detergents, Filters, Formulas, Hoses, Measuring Containers, Solvents.

WAGE AND COMPENSATION

Wage range $ 19.18 hr. - $ 28.51 hr. – DOE

Plus, the Per Diem rate of an additional 10%

Mid-Valley Hospital also offers Per Diem Employees Sick Leave at an accrual of 1 hour for every 40 hours worked. Per Diem employees can also enroll in a 403(b) deferred compensation plan and/or a 457 deferred compensation plan.