Laundry Technician/Housekeeping - PT

Summary: Housekeeping: Cleans and organizes rooms of individuals served and common areas. Ensures bedrooms are safe, comfortable, and maintained in an attractive manner. Laundry: Washing, drying, sorting, folding, and delivering laundry to appropriate areas.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

Housekeeping:

• Cleans and organizes bedrooms of individuals served to include cleaning and organizing closets, drawers, shelves,counters and activities of daily living (ADL) boxes.
• Makes designated beds daily. Changes linens at least 2 times per week or as needed.
• Cleans shower and bath chairs daily.
• Washes bed mattresses 1 time per week or as needed, observing for cracks, cuts, or other damage.
• Cleans, sanitizes, and dusts tables, counter tops, and other furniture with appropriate cleaning agents.
• Assists in orienting new employees on housekeeping and laundry procedures.
• Complies with all infection control procedures including wearing appropriate personal protective equipment (gloves, gown, mask) when cleaning depending on the space being cleaned and reason for cleaning.

Laundry:

• Collects and separates soiled clothing and linens from residential living areas. 
• Pretreats or soaks soiled or contaminated items as required.
• Loads articles into washer and adds specified amount of detergent, soap, or other cleaning agent. 
• Operates washers and dryers per manufacturer’s instructions.
• Transfers clean articles from washers into dryers for measured time cycles.
• Sorts and folds dried articles according to identification labels or type. Places items in appropriate storage bin.
• Delivers clothing to rooms of individuals served accurately and in a timely manner, according to identification labels.
• Maintains adequate supply of clean towels, bibs, and linens in designated areas, including individuals’ rooms, hallway linen carts, and dining room cabinets.
• Complies with all infection control procedures including wearing appropriate personal protective equipment (gloves, gown, mask) as needed with performing specific laundry duties (i.e., soiled laundry from room’s where individuals are in quarantine)

Supervisory Responsibilities:

None.

Compliance/HIPAA:

While performing the duties of this job, employee will comply with all federal, state, and local laws and regulations pertaining to Easterseals Arkansas.  

This employee has no access to client files. Employee will not attempt to access protected health information.

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience:

High school diploma or general education degree (GED) required. One to three months related experience and/or training preferred.

Language Skills:

Ability to read a limited number of two- and three-syllable words and to recognize similarities and differences between words and between series of numbers. Ability to print and speak simple sentences.

Mathematical Skills:

Ability to add and subtract two-digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10's and 100's and perform weight and volume measurements.

Reasoning Ability:

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out simple one- or two-step instructions. Ability to deal with standardized situations with only occasional or no variables.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

No

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts. The employee is occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions. The employee is regularly required to talk, see and hear. The employee is regularly required to stand and walk, use hands and fingers to handle or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to sit, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch and crawl. The employee must regularly lift and or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Easterseals Arkansas has designated this position as a “non-safety sensitive” position under the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Amendment.