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Position Summary:Floor experience with carpets and strip and waxing is preferred.Clean and services building areas. Perform a variety of environmental services duties in order to maintain the hospital in a neat, orderly, and sanitary condition. Perform routine manual work in the cleaning of the hospital and the surrounding grounds. Ensures adherence to Hospital and Departmental Policies and Procedures. No patient care assignment.Accountability:
HOUSEKEEPING - Select cleaning materials and supplies and prepare solutions according to procedure
HOUSEKEEPING - Load service carts and transport to work area
HOUSEKEEPING - Clean assigned areas by washing furniture, tile, fixtures, and equipment with germicidal cleaning solutions
HOUSEKEEPING - Clean assigned areas by washing walls, doors, door frames, ceilings, ventilators, patient televisions, and windows; strips and apply floor finish and polishes floors
HOUSEKEEPING - Sweep and mops floor areas, vacuums carpets, spot-cleans carpets, using appropriate solutions, and arrange furniture and equipment in an orderly fashion after cleaning assigned area
HOUSEKEEPING - Request cleaning supplies and equipment as needed
HOUSEKEEPING - Operate various types of cleaning equipment both mechanical and electrical
HOUSEKEEPING - Clean equipment and notify manager of equipment needing repair
HOUSEKEEPING - Report safety hazards to manger
HOUSEKEEPING - Return unused supplies to janitor closet or department, clean carts and equipment; ensure all items are properly replaced
HOUSEKEEPING - Climb ladder to hang cubicle drapes, window drapes, or reach high areas for other cleaning purposes
HOUSEKEEPING - Collect waste from all areas of the hospital, sanitize all garbage cans, and keep compactor area sanitized
HOUSEKEEPING - Collect or distribute soiled or clean linen
HOUSEKEEPING - May collect hazardous waste as established by Infection Control Committee
HOUSEKEEPING - Transport infectious waste in a special closed container to the waste garage for sterilization before disposal
HOUSEKEEPING - Clean Isolation Room after patient has been discharged
HOUSEKEEPING - Arrange furniture for meetings, workshops, and community affairs
HOUSEKEEPING - Clean, mop, scrub or sweep floors, stairways and hallways
HOUSEKEEPING - Remove old finish from floors and re-coat with floor finish as needed or assigned
HOUSEKEEPING - Operate vacuum suction machines to clean flooded areas
HOUSEKEEPING - Clean, wash, dust or polish, hardware, brass, furniture, mirrors, lighting fixtures, windows, window sill, screens, vents, radiators, exteriors of cabinets and equipment
HOUSEKEEPING - Clean patient rooms thoroughly; perform duties, such as mopping floors, washing furniture, scrubbing plastic cushions & bed frames, cleaning & washing bathroom fixtures, dusting overhead & bed lamps, making beds & performing other general cleaning work
HOUSEKEEPING - Perform other miscellaneous duties as assigned, such as vacuuming and shampooing rugs, lifting and moving furniture and other heavy projects
RELATED WORK - May be called upon at times to perform other similar or related duties not included in this job description
Education Requirements:
Less than high school
Experience Requirements:
1/2 year (6 months) directly related experience
Physical Demands Requirements:
Medium Work: Exerting 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects. Physical Demand requirements are in excess of those for Light Work.
Testing Requirements:
Tuberculin Skin Test required annually
Working Conditions Requirements:
Med Haz: Mod exposure to chemicals, dangerous equipment and/or materials requiring basic safety precautions
IT IS THE POLICY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HOSPITALS TO PROHIBIT UNLAWFUL DISCRIMINATION AND PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT ON THE BASIS OF RACE, COLOR, SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTITY, NATIONAL ORIGIN, ANCESTRY, RELIGION, AGE, PREGNANCY, VETERAN STATUS, SPOUSAL AFFILIATION, GENETIC INFORMATION, PHYSICAL OR MENTAL DISABILITY OR MEDICAL CONDITION.