Housekeeper II- Full-Time Days

Schedule: Full-time 40 hours. 7:00 am

• 3:30 pm Monday

• Friday, every other weekend and holiday

This position requires 1-2 years of floor and carpet care experience.

Supports the organization's mission, vision, and values by exhibiting the following behaviors: Excellence in maintaining a clean safe, orderly, and attractive environment, throughout all Hospital departments, patient areas, and all support areas, including hospital-controlled areas. Also performs discharge cleaning as needed. Responsible as a member of the healthcare team for daily communication and interaction with our customers (Nursing, Unit Coordinators, Practice Administrators, patients, public, etc.).

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Project work, including strip and recoat floors; carpet cleaning in doctors' suites; special detail work especially in all of the Operating Rooms entrances, hallways, and staircases.

• Performs the following floor and carpet care techniques: carpet bonneting and extracting, spray buffing, burnishing, scrubbing & recoat, stripping, and refinishing.

• Performs the 8-step cleaning procedures, daily cleaning, discharge cleaning, bed making, wall spots, toilet cleaning, high and low dusting, and O.R. terminal cleaning.

• Cleans up all organic body waste, i.e. blood and body fluids, feces, sputum, etc. as instructed by the supervisor or team leader.

• Hang cubical curtains, shower curtains, and window curtains.

• Up on discharge cleaning, disinfect and/or sanitize I.V. poles, pumps, and other patient equipment.

• Ability to learn and demonstrate new procedures related to the healthcare industry.

• Collects solid and contaminated waste.

• Delivers solid waste to the compacting area.

• Inspects equipment daily to maintain it in clean condition and good repair.

• Maintains good public relations with all patients, facility, and staff personnel.

Grade: 105

About Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital

Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital, an affiliate of Mass General Brigham, is committed to supporting patient care, research, teaching, and service to the community. We place great value on being a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organization as we aim to reflect the diversity of the patients we serve. At Mass General Brigham, we believe in equal access to quality care, employment, and advancement opportunities encompassing the full spectrum of human diversity: race, gender identity, sexual orientation, ability, religion, ethnicity, national origin, and all the other forms of human presence and expression that make us better able to provide innovative and cutting-edge healthcare and research.

Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital is a 171-bed non-profit, community teaching hospital located in Jamaica Plain directly across the street from the Arnold Arboretum. Founded in 1900, Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital offers comprehensive care in a wide variety of specialties. Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital is a designated Magnet hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, a recognition that fewer than nine percent of all US hospitals receive.

At Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital, we believe that everyone should have the chance to live a healthy life. From creating breakthroughs that have paved the way for treatments around the globe to training the next generation of providers, our patients, and those we may never meet, are at the center of everything we do. If you're looking for more than a career, join Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital. Our patients call it better care. Our employees call it home.

• High school education or equivalent.

• Must have at least 1 to 2 years of experience in floor and carpet care.

• Must have the ability to understand and converse in English at a level that allows safe, efficient performance of the job.

• Be able to lift 25-50 pounds. Requires manual dexterity and ability to stand for long periods.

• Performs basic and heavier cleaning functions in assigned areas following established schedules and using prescribed methods.

• Performs all environmental services tasks demonstrating services orientation to fellow employees, staff, and patients.

• Competent in using the proper chemicals for the proper tasks.

• Ability to perform cleaning of emergency spills when observed and/or upon request.