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Job Description
Housekeeper
SUMMARY:
Provides housekeeping services to ensure a safe, sanitary and comfortable environment for residents, staff, visitors, and the public.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Cleans (dust, dry mop, wet mop, sanitize, scrub) assigned resident rooms, bathrooms and common areas daily according to facility procedures.
- Respects residents’ privacy and preferences about room arrangement and personal items. Knocks before entering resident rooms and bathrooms.
- Cleans walls, ceilings, windows, mirrors, and waxes floors according to department procedures and cleaning schedules.
- Takes appropriate actions to secure housekeeping supplies out of reach of residents at all times.
- Disposes of trash and waste, including biohazardous waste and other materials that require special handling, only in accordance with facility policies and procedures.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Job Requirements
Housekeeper
ENTRY QUALIFICATIONS:
- Sufficient education to demonstrate functional literacy.
- Prior housekeeping experience in an institutional setting preferred.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:
n/a
PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND ENVIRONMENT:
- Working in institutional kitchen environment, employee may be required to sit, bend, stoop, see, talk and hear.
- May occasionally lift or move items of up to 75 pounds.
- Employee is occasionally exposed to blood or other body fluids, fumes or airborne particles and toxic or caustic chemicals.
- In compliance with applicable law, reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position.
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