Housekeeper

Are you a cheerful, hardworking, flexible individual who loves creating spotless, welcoming spaces? Let your skills thrive with us! Join our outstanding team at a beautiful, progressive retirement community and make a difference every day!

The Housekeeper will play a crucial role in maintaining a clean, safe, and welcoming environment for our residents and staff. This position is classified as ESSENTIAL; therefore, the employee must report for work when scheduled, regardless of weather or other conditions that affect travel.

• Ensure a clean and comfortable environment for residents through routine cleaning services.
• Perform regular housekeeping tasks, special projects as assigned, and emergency housekeeping as needed.
• Thoroughly clean rooms after a resident is discharged.
• Maintain adequate supplies of towels, cups, and hand soap throughout the facility.
• Participate in fire and disaster drills and adhere to departmental safety regulations.
• Must possess patience and tact when dealing with residents.

• Clean floors, vacuum floors, cleans walls, windows, ceilings, light fixtures, restroom fixtures, vents, furniture equipment, and other surfaces.
• Disinfect all surfaces, fixtures, furniture, appliances, equipment and miscellaneous items in rooms and offices.
• Clean movable and stationary furnishings and fixtures; dust, spot clean, disinfect, and polish as needed; empty and clean wastebaskets and trashcans.
• Contains and cleans up body fluid spills (e.g., blood, vomit, feces, urine) primarily in resident rooms and restrooms.
• Strips soiled bed linens, cleans bed and furniture, and makes bed with clean linen upon resident discharge.
• Refills dispensers with paper towels, cups, hand soaps, and toilet paper throughout the facility.
• Removes trash, recycled paper, cans, bottles, glass, and cardboard from rooms to pick-up locations.
• Adheres to safety regulations when operating equipment and using cleaning supplies. Participates in fire and disaster drills.

Proper use of personal protective equipment to safely perform job duties.

• Has a working knowledge of cleaning chemicals, tools, supply and equipment; routine and project housekeeping techniques; cleaning frequencies and appearance standards; operational and performances guidelines as regulated by OSHA, JCAHO, IC, DEP.

• This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

• Delivers supplies.

• Any satisfactory combination of education, training experience, or abilities in a related field.
• No experience necessary, however six months in an institutional housekeeping position preferable in a healthcare setting desirable.
• Ability to communicate and follow instructions in English, verbally and writing.
• Ability to lift 50 pounds, stretch above head, bend, climb and reach overhead with frequency.

• Based on experience.
• Noble Horizons provides a comprehensive benefits package for both full-time and part-time employees, including holiday pay, sick leave, personal time, vacation, medical, dental, and vision coverage, as well as a pension plan.

• Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. Must be able to:
• Stand, climb, stoop, bend, walk, kneel, reach, and see while performing housekeeping tasks throughout shifts.
• Lift up to 50 pounds within a 0\"-36\" height range occasionally.
• Push/pull maid carts frequently.
• Manipulate cleaning tools (e.g., mop, mop wringer, dust mop, spray bottles) constantly.
• Operate small motor cleaning equipment (e.g., vacuum, wet vacuum) occasionally.