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Job description
Environmental Services CleanerTo perform the major floor cleaning and refinishing functions throughout Jackson General in accordance with the standard/prescribed procedures of the Environmental Services Department. Cleans for and interacts with patients and patient's families, including neonates, pediatrics, adolescents, adults and geriatrics. This position reports directly to the supervisor of the unit assigned. The incumbent works 8 hour days, 5 days per week with a schedule to include every other weekend. Employee is subject to call back and overtime as required by the hospital. This position description in no way states or implies that these are the only job duties to be performed by the employee occupying the position. Employee will be required to follow any other job related instructions and perform any other job related requests by supervisors. A review of this description has excluded the marginal functions of the position that are incidental to the performance of fundamental job duties.Essential Job Functions:Responsible for performing cleaning functions in assigned areas, following established schedules, and using prescribed methods; recognizing that an area needs to be cleaned and taking the necessary initiative to clean that area.The incumbent will dust mop, wet/spot mop, scrub with an automatic scrubbing machine and burnish floors according to the daily and weekly schedule.On periodic basis, accounting to supervisory guidance, the incumbent will strip and refinish or scrub/re-coat all types of flooring at JMCGH; Vacuum, spot, pre-treat, extract, detail clean, bonnet buff and pile lift carpeted floors; and in addition, wall-wash all corridor/hallway walls.On as a needed basis, accounting to supervisory direction, the incumbent will hang drapes and cubicle curtains, move furniture, set-up meeting rooms, and assist in cleaning up emergency spills when observed or requested.Responsible for maintaining assigned equipment in clean condition; maintaining the work area in a clean and neat state; observing and reporting equipment, furniture, fixtures and building malfunctions or deficiencies in a timely manner; and using own initiative to correct housekeeping discrepancies that are noticed, without supervisory direction.Responsible for properly responding during any called situations or other emergencies; maintaining flexibility in work assignments and hours due to changing priorities for the benefit of the hospital and its patients; and maintaining sound safety conditions through good body mechanics and appropriate management of equipment supplies.The incumbent will have direct contact with patients, visitors and hospital staff while performing the cleaning functions in assigned areas, for the purpose of providing quality housekeeping services and positive public relations.The incumbent is expected to make decisions in the following areas without submitting those decisions to the E.S. manager for prior approval: The procedures require to refinish patient rooms; reporting safety hazards; and the cleaning of emergency spills.The incumbent submits the following types of decisions to the E.S. manager for prior approval: Utilization of incumbent's time and energy in other areas other than specific assigned areas.The continuing challenges of the incumbent's position are self-motivation required to daily perform a highly repetitive, often non-stimulating, and sometimes undesirable tasks with a positive attitude, also the maintenance of cleanliness and pleasant aesthetics in assigned area while under constant conditions of high occupancy and traffic.Performs related responsibilities as required or directed.Job Specifications:Education:Ability to understand and communicate both verbally and in writing.Be able to follow written and oral instructions and to record assignments completed in basic log.Licensure, Registration, Certification:N/AExperience:Ability to perform cleaning procedures according to written guidelines as acquired through two weeks of on the job training in department.Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:Ability to operate/use equipment provided by the department to facilitate the procedures performed.Nondiscrimination Notice Statement We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, disability, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, sexual orientation, age, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Worksite address
jackson, TN, 38302, US
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