Housekeeping and Laundry Technician

Job Description

Job Description

Job Summary:

A Housekeeping/Laundry Technician is responsible for taking care of a building's general cleanliness to provide tidy and sanitary amenities to residents. Their duties include cleaning floors, cleaning restrooms and all surfaces of resident's rooms. Also dusting surfaces throughout entire neighborhood/ building. A Housekeeper will follow their daily checklist and complete to the standards of ECHRS. A Float position requires that they work different shifts in multiple departments.

Housekeeping shift 7a-3:30p

Laundry shift 5a-1:30p

Every other weekend

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

Performs the following duties listed and others as required to improve the facility housekeeping requirements. This list does not include all duties required but to serve as a basis of expectations. Duties and responsibilities may be added or modified at any time.

• Maintains facilities standards for cleanliness, sanitation, appearance and conditions of equipment and facility by complying with established procedures.
• Undergo training.
• Understand the ECHRS policy on work shifts, resident's possessions and privacy.
• Provide basic housekeeping duties including dusting, sweeping and mopping, changing and arranging the towels, restocking toilet supplies, vacuuming, dusting and deep cleaning the room after residents leave.
• Report, label and return any residents property found in the rooms while rendering service
• Report cases of property damage in commercial spaces to supervisor.
• Work with a team of housekeepers on each shift.
• Clean, disinfect and store all equipment at the end of the shift.
• Maintain a positive relationship with employees and residents.
• Monitor and report on the inventory of cleaning supplies.
• Respond to calls for housekeeping problems, such as spills.
• Collect and remove trash and debris.
• Assist with laundry management, including washing, drying, ironing and sorting linen.
• Report, turn in and log all lost and found items.
• Clean upholstered furniture.
• Perform detailed deep cleans when required.
• Cleans and sanitizes resident rooms and other areas throughout the day.
• Sweep, mop, wax and strip all facility floors.
• Performs terminal cleaning in resident rooms when discharged or transferred. Prepares room for new resident.
• Perform related work as required.

Working Conditions:

Nursing home setting. Lifting up to 50 lbs. when needed. Prolonged standing or walking. Bends, lifts, carries, pushes and pulls various equipment or supplies throughout the work day. Extended, evening, unusual or mandated working hours when required (for example, waxing floors during down times).