Housekeeping

QUALIFICATIONS: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to performposition specific job duties at an acceptable level. Job responsibilities are completed byfollowing established guidelines and protocols within the appropriate time frame. Anindividual will also demonstrate the necessary skills to represent the following requirements:

• A complete knowledge of how to clean, disinfect, and sanitize required areasfollowing safe and effective guidelines.
• Understand how to thoroughly clean, disinfect, and sanitize a shower, a toilet, asink and a bathroom floor.
• Have a complete understanding of dusting, including furniture, bedroom walls, fans, and hallways.
• Have a complete understanding of following infection control standards, especially pertaining to bio-hazardous specimens, i.e., urine, blood, or feces. Education and/or Experience: The ability to read, write, speak clearly and followwritten and oral instructions. Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: Must successfully complete and be current in alltraining requirements for training under ALF regulations with AHCA.There are many dangers to employees working in the Housekeeping Department in an Assisted Living Facility, including splashes to the eye, chemical burns, and possible equipmentmalfunction. Also, housekeepers must be properly informed of labeling of chemical containers, how to read and interpret material safety data sheets and how to correctly label and dispose ofbio-hazardous waste materials. The following is a list of procedures that are taught and are mandatory procedures to befollowed by each employee in the housekeeping department:§ Cleaning procedures where exposure to bodily fluids is possible.§ Correct procedure for cleaning a blood spill using a “HIV effective”cleaning solution.§ Proper use of protective equipment (gloves) during routine duties.§ Procedure for labeling of small containers.§ Procedure in case of chemical burn or splash in the eye.§ Location of facility eyewash station.§ Location and interpretation of SDS books.§ Procedure for transferring chemicals from one container to another.§ Procedures for safe use of any equipment.§ Procedures for tagging equipment that is out of order.§ Correct labeling of bio-hazardous waste materials.§ Correct disposal of bio-hazardous waste materials.§ Procedure for bagging contaminated laundry. Each employee is mandated to follow the safety training and precautions required through theinitial employee training session. Housekeeping is an extremely important job to Innovative Senior Management. Housekeepersare our first line of defense to keeping all areas clean, disinfected, and odor free. DAILY TASKS:Clean, disinfect, and sanitize the rooms you’re responsible for each day. Dust mop and/or mop each room designated for each day. Clean mirrors, dust nightstands, chest of drawers, window seals, pictures, andair conditioning vent Do spot cleaning on walls and where necessary. All rooms must have clean towels, toilet tissue, and soap checked and placed, when necessary, in each room
• Make sure rooms are free from loose objects and cords that residents would tendto fall from
• After complete cleaning of the room, then spray air freshener in and outside theroom and into the hallway.
• Disinfect both sides of the door handles in the bathroom and in the main door tohelp minimize the spreading of any unforeseen illnesses.
• Helping in the kitchen is the responsibility of all housekeepers. You are requiredto help in the capacity that the kitchen supervisor deems appropriate and aftereach meal, the cleaning, clearing, disinfecting, and mopping of the dining areas ismandatory for breakfast and lunch.
• At least three times a week cleaning, dusting, and sanitizing of the designatedcommon areas which include the lobby, lobby bathrooms, hallways floors onboth sides of the building, laundry room, and elevators.