Cleans and organizes clients' rooms and common areas. Ensures clients' rooms are safe, comfortable, and maintained in an attractive manner. Assists with washing, drying, sorting, folding, and delivering laundry to appropriate areas.
Basic Responsibilities:
Include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
I. Primary Duties:
- Cleans and organizes client rooms to include cleaning and organizing closets, drawers, shelves, and ADL boxes.
- Makes designated beds daily. Changes linens at least 2 times per week or as needed.
- Cleans shower and bath chairs daily.
- Washes bed mattresses 1 time per week or as needed, observing for cracks, cuts, or other damage.
- Cleans, sanitizes and dusts tables, counter tops, and other furniture with appropriate cleaning agents.
- Cleans employee break room areas.
- Assists in orienting new employees on housekeeping and laundry procedures.
- Reports problems/concerns to the Director of Independent Living Services, Director of Nursing, and/or Administrator.
II. Secondary Duties:
- Assists with Laundry tasks as needed, including but not limited to the following:
- Collects and separates soiled clothing and linens from residential living areas. Pretreats or soaks soiled or contaminated items as required.
- Loads articles into washer and adds specified amount of detergent, soap, or other cleaning agent. Transfers clean articles from washers into dryers for measured time cycles.
- Sorts and folds dried articles according to identification labels or type. Places items in appropriate storage bin.
- Delivers clothing to clients’ rooms accurately and in a timely manner, according to identification labels.
- Maintains adequate supply of clean towels, bibs, and linens in designated areas, including client rooms, hallway linen carts, and dining room cabinets.
Compliance/HIPAA:While performing the duties of this job, employee will comply with all federal, state and local laws and regulations pertaining to Easterseals Arkansas. This employee has no access to client files. Employee will not attempt to access protected health information.
Qualifications:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education and/or Experience: High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or one to three months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Language Skills: Ability to read a limited number of two- and three-syllable words and to recognize similarities and differences between words and between series of numbers. Ability to print and speak simple sentences.
Mathematical Skills: Ability to add and subtract two digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10's and 100's. Ability to perform these operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume, and distance.
Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out simple one- or two-step instructions. Ability to deal with standardized situations with only occasional or no variables.
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: Valid Arkansas Driver's License
Additional Notes:Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.