Housekeeper

This position is with a reputable Medical Center dedicated to providing high-quality healthcare services and maintaining a safe and clean environment for patients, staff, and visitors. The Medical Center operates with a focus on excellence in patient care, cleanliness, and safety, recognizing that a sterile and orderly environment is essential to delivering effective healthcare services and preventing infections.

The role is for a specialist responsible for ensuring a sterile environment by disinfecting and cleaning patient rooms, offices, operating rooms, and hallways throughout the Medical Center. This position plays a critical part in infection control by thoroughly cleaning and disinfecting beds after each patient discharge, terminally cleaning operating rooms including ceiling-to-floor cleaning and scrubbing and flooding floors, and maintaining other essential areas such as restrooms, lounges, corridors, and elevators. The individual will operate various electric and manual cleaning equipment including floor machines, vacuums, and equipment used to shampoo carpets and furnishings. They will also mix and utilize chemical solutions safely to remove wax finishes and disinfect various surfaces.

This role requires maintaining cleanliness and hygiene to the highest standards to promote an attractive, safe, and sanitary environment. The Medical Center values team members who follow strict safety protocols, handle cleaning chemicals carefully, and maintain well-stocked cleaning carts and storage closets. This position demands physical stamina to frequently move throughout the facility, operate heavy equipment, lift and move items weighing up to 50 pounds frequently and occasionally up to 100 pounds, and position oneself in various ways such as stooping, crouching, and kneeling.

The candidate will work consistently in environments exposed to blood, body fluids, mechanical parts, occasional chemicals, and potential radiation risks. The role demands excellent attention to detail, communication abilities to interact with care teams, and adherence to infection control protocols. This job requires the successful completion of the Wonderlic Cognitive Ability Assessment and prefers one to three months of related experience or training, demonstrating foundational knowledge and skills in cleaning and disinfecting hygienically.

The position offers the opportunity to contribute significantly to patient safety and healthcare quality through dedicated environmental sanitation efforts in a dynamic healthcare setting. The work environment is usually moderate in noise levels and offers a fast-paced, impactful career path for those interested in environmental services within a medical context.