Housekeeping Aide
Company: Big River Nursing & Rehab
Location: Cedar Hill
Posted on: March 20, 2023
Job Description:
Big River Nursing & Rehab - Job Description
The primary purpose of your job position is to perform the
day-to-day activities of the Housekeeping Department in accordance
with current federal, state, and local standards, guidelines and
regulations that governing the facility, and as may be directed by
the Administrator and the Director of Housekeeping, to assure that
the facility is maintained in a clean, safe, and comfortable
manner. As the Housekeeper, you are delegated the administrative
authority, responsibility, and accountability necessary for
carrying out your assigned duties.
Every effort has been made to identify the essential functions of
this position. However, it in no way states or implies that these
are the only duties you will be required to perform. The omission
of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the
position if the work is similar, related, or is an essential
function of the position.
Major Responsibilities
- Clean and polish furniture,fixtures, ledges, room
heating/cooling units, etc., in resident rooms, recreational areas,
etc., daily, as instructed.
- Clean, wash, sanitize, and polish bathroom fixtures. Ensure
that water marks are removed from fixtures.
- Empty and sanitize ashtrays daily.
- Clean windows and mirrors in resident rooms, recreational
areas, bathrooms, and entrance/exit ways.
- Clean floors, to include sweeping, dusting, damp/wet mopping,
stripping, waxing, buffing, disinfection, etc.
- Clean carpet including vacuuming, shampooing, deodorizing, and
disinfecting.
- Clean walls and ceilings by washing, wiping, dusting, spot
cleaning, disinfecting, deodorizing, etc.
- Remove, dirt, dust, grease, film, etc., from surfaces using
proper cleaning/disinfecting solutions.
- Clean hallways, stairways, and elevators.
- Ensures that work areas are clean and that equipment, tools,
supplies, etc., are properly stored at all times, as well as before
leaving such areas for breaks, meal times, and end of the work
day.
- Follow proper techniques when mixing chemicals, disinfectants,
and solutions used for cleaning.
- Ensures that an adequate supply of housekeeping supplies to
perform daily tasks is maintained in utility/janitorial
closets.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Knowledge Skills and Abilities
- Knowledge of appropriate cleaning methods.
- Knowledge of chemical properties of cleaners and the ability to
mix them in appropriate rations.
- Ability to read, write, speak, and understand the English
language.
- Ability to relate information concerning a resident's
condition.
- Ability not to pose a direct threat to the health or safety of
other individuals in the work place.
- Skill in the use of the sight/hearing senses or use of
prosthetics that will enable these senses to function adequately so
that the requirements of the position can be full met.
- Ability to meet the general health requirements set forth by
the guidelines of the facility, which include a medical and
physical examination.
- Ability to push, pull, move and/or lift a minimum of 25 pounds
to a minimum height of three feet and be able to push, pull, move,
and/or carry such weight a minimum distance of three feet.
Exposure Level
It is highly likely that while performing the essential functions
of this position you will be exposed to blood or body fluids.
Minimum Qualifications
Six months experience in a housekeeping environment.
Keywords: Big River Nursing & Rehab, Columbia , Housekeeping Aide, Hospitality & Tourism , Cedar Hill, Missouri
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