Under the general supervision of the Director and Assistant Director of Housekeeping, cleans and services hospital areas to ensure the safety, health, and morale of patients, visitors, and employees. Ensures the patients recovery by providing a clean, attractive, and safe environment.
• Dust mops and wet mops floors. Periodically cleans and polishes floors using buffing machines.
• Advanced knowledge of cleaning methods
• Use of motorized equipment for floor care
• Strips or scrubs and refinishes floors when assigned.
• Vacuums, spot cleans, or shampoos carpets when assigned.
• Cleans vertical and horizontal surfaces that collect dust.
• Collects and transports refuse, cleans and relines refuse containers with plastic bags.
• Cleans tops of windows, door frames, and other high places using a ladder when necessary.
• Washes sinks and other plumbing fixtures and replaces disposables such as paper towels, soaps, and toilet tissues.
• Dusts and polishes furniture including beds.
• Joins a labor pool in case of fire, disaster, or special projects.
• Changes cubical curtains and drapes.
• Moves furniture, beds, supplies etc.
• Employee uses accepted infection prevention techniques by the proper utilization of protective garb, handling of sharp instruments, cleaning of instruments and work surfaces and the use of covers for contamination prone equipment.
• Scours and polishes lavatories, sinks, tubs, utilities, basins, mirrors, and fixtures.
• Assures attractive appearance of areas of responsibility by arranging furniture in an orderly fashion. Reports to department heads or supervisor of any inappropriate conditions such as worn or soiled drapes, mismatched furniture, items needing maintenance.
• Carries out responsibilities contained in General Employee description
• Perform other duties as required.
REQUIRED:
Individuals must possess the knowledge, skills and abilities listed or be able to explain and demonstrate that the individual can perform the essential functions of the job, with or without reasonable accommodation, using some other combination of skills and abilities and possess the necessary physical requirements with or without the aid of mechanical devices, to safely perform the essential functions of the job.
PREFERRED:
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability. Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.
Req Id 98184
Department ENVIRONMENTAL SVCS - MVHS
Shift Nights
Shift Hours Worked 7.50
FTE 0.94
Work Schedule UFCSM
Employee Status A1 - Full-Time
Union 2006 - UFCW
Pay Range $18 - $23 Per Hour
MVHS is dedicated to delivering premier healthcare to our region, keeping our patients as the focus of all we do. MVHS strives to be the leading patient-centered medical and healing environment, the employer of choice and the pride of Central New York.
MVHS is the parent company of the Wynn Hospital as well as MVHS Rehabilitation and Nursing Center (RNC) and Visiting Nurse Association of Utica and Oneida County. MVHS serves a multi county area of central New York. The MVHS Medical Group has 15 primary care locations. The group also provides services in many specialty areas including Women’s and Children’s Health; General, Cardiothoracic, Vascular, Orthopedic and Neurological Surgery; Advanced Endoscopy, Wound Care, Bariatric, Cardiovascular, Comprehensive Stroke, Cancer, Immune Health, Behavioral Health, Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Pulmonary Critical Care and Urology.
In October 2023, MVHS opened the Wynn Hospital – a new, state-of-the art hospital in downtown Utica. The Wynn Hospital replaces two aging community hospitals, St. Luke’s and St. Elizabeth, and is capable of handling 85-90 percent of all healthcare needs in the community. The Wynn Hospital will strengthen and grow full service cardiac offerings, support the development of a Neurosciences Institute that will include a Neurovascular Center and Comprehensive Stroke Center, will be a world class diagnostic center, including Interventional Radiology and Advanced Endoscopy and provides a Level III Trauma Center plus the ability to serve 90,000 emergency visits per year.
