Job Description

Are you an internal caregiver, student, or contingent worker/agency worker at UMass Memorial Health? CLICK HERE to apply through your Workday account.

Exemption Status:

Non-Exempt

Hiring Range:

$15.00 - $22.22

Please note that the final offer may vary within this range based on a candidate’s experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity considerations

Schedule Details:

Friday, Holidays - Every Other Holiday, Monday, Saturday, Sunday, Thursday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Weekends (Saturday and Sunday)

Scheduled Hours:

24-32

Shift:

1 - Day Shift, 8 Hours (United States of America)

Hours:

0

Cost Center:

26000 - 5300 Housekeeping

This position may have a signing bonus available a member of the Recruitment Team will confirm eligibility during the interview process.

Everyone Is a Caregiver

At UMass Memorial Health, everyone is a caregiver – regardless of their title or responsibilities. Exceptional patient care, academic excellence and leading-edge research make UMass Memorial the premier health system of Central Massachusetts, and a place where we can help you build the career you deserve. We are more than 20,000 employees, working together as one health system in a relentless pursuit of healing for our patients, community and each other. And everyone, in their own unique way, plays an important part, every day.

According to established procedure, cleans and services building areas. Moves furniture, equipment, and supplies in and around hospital departments; and performs a variety of environmental services duties to maintain the hospital in a neat, orderly, and sanitary condition.

I. Major Responsibilities:

Environmental Cleaning and Maintenance
1. Loads service cart with appropriate materials and supplies for assigned area.
2. Operates and cleans various types of cleaning equipment (mechanical and electrical).
3. Cleans operating suites using germicidal cleaning solutions and arranges furniture and equipment.
4. Cleans patient rooms, observing isolation techniques and ensuring a safe, clean environment.
5. Cleans assigned areas including walls, doors, ceilings, fixtures, and windows.
6. Climbs ladders to reach high areas for cleaning, using safety precautions.
7. Collects and/or distributes soiled or clean linen, maintaining linen closet cleanliness.
8. Dust mops, wet mops floors, and vacuums carpets.
9. Maintains floors and baseboards using appropriate cleaning methods.
10. Maintains carpets through regular vacuuming.
11. Collects waste and/or hazardous waste, following infection control policies.
12. Performs any duty assigned by a supervisor to ensure a safe, comfortable, and sanitary environment.

Standard Staffing Level Responsibilities:

1. Complies with established departmental policies, procedures, and objectives.
2. Attends variety of meetings, conferences, seminars as required or directed.
3. Demonstrates use of Quality Improvement in daily operations.
4. Complies with all health and safety regulations and requirements.
5. Respects diverse views and approaches, demonstrates Standards of Respect, and contributes to creating and maintaining an environment of professionalism, tolerance, civility and acceptance toward all employees, patients and visitors.
6. Maintains, regular, reliable, and predictable attendance.
7. Performs other similar and related duties as required or directed.
8. All responsibilities are essential job functions.

II. Position Qualifications:
License/Certification/Education
Required:
1. None specified
Preferred:
1. High School Graduate or G.E.D.

Experience/Skills
Required:
1. -
Preferred:
1. Previous cleaning experience in a healthcare environment

Unless certification, licensure or registration is required, an equivalent combination of education and experience which provides proficiency in the areas of responsibility listed in this description may be substituted for the above requirements.

Department-specific competencies and their measurements will be developed and maintained in the individual departments. The competencies will be maintained and attached to the departmental job description. Responsible managers will review competencies with position incumbents.

III. Physical Demands and Environmental Conditions:

This position involves frequent standing, pushing, pulling, bending, reaching, and performing repetitive movements. It may require climbing and working at heights. The role includes exposure to temperature extremes and requires precise motor skills, vision, and hearing. Lifting, carrying, pulling, and pushing weights up to 100 lbs may be required occasionally to frequently.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

We’re striving to make respect a part of everything we do at UMass Memorial Health – for our patients, our community and each other. Our six Standards of Respect are: Acknowledge, Listen, Communicate, Be Responsive, Be a Team Player and Be Kind. If you share these Standards of Respect, we hope you will join our team and help us make respect our standard for everyone, every day.

As an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, UMass Memorial Health recognizes the power of a diverse community and encourages applications from individuals with varied experiences, perspectives and backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity and expression, protected veteran status or other status protected by law.

If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at talentacquisition@umassmemorial.org. We will make every effort to respond to your request for disability assistance as soon as possible.