Schedule: Full-time Evenings, 40 hours. S, M, T, F, S 3:00 pm - 11:30 Pm. Rotating holidays

Supports the organization's mission, vision, and values by exhibiting the following behaviors:

• Excellence in maintaining a clean safe, orderly, and attractive environment, throughout all Hospital departments, patient areas, and all support areas, including hospital-controlled areas. Also performs discharge cleaning as needed.
• Responsible as a member of the healthcare team for daily communication and interaction with our customers (Nursing, Unit Coordinators, Practice Administrators, patients, public, etc.).

  Leadership

• In conjunction with the supervisor, schedules and assigns duties for the shift ensuring work is performed according to quality standards.
• Ability to help train new employees.
• Assists supervisor in the scheduling of time-off of ESD employees.
• Performs other work requiring equal skill, effort, and responsibility as directed.
• May perform work of a higher level in preparation for increased responsibility.

  Physical Demands:

• Responsibilities of a Lead Housekeeper require physical demands; ability to stand for long periods, bending and stooping, and lifting.
• Performs the 8-step cleaning procedures, daily cleaning, discharge cleaning, bed making, wall spots, toilet cleaning, high and low dusting, and O.R. terminal cleaning.
• Completes work from previous shift if needed, reports all incomplete assignments and maintenance issues.
• Cleans up all organic body waste, i.e. blood and body fluids, feces, sputum, etc. as instructed by the supervisor or team leader.
• Hang cubical curtains, shower curtains, and window curtains.
• Up on discharge cleaning, disinfect and/or sanitize I.V. poles, pumps, and other patient equipment.
• Ability to learn and demonstrate new procedures related to the healthcare industry.
• Performs the following floor and carpet care techniques: carpet bonneting and extracting, spray buffing, burnishing, scrubbing & recoat, stripping, and refinishing.
• Inspects equipment daily to maintain it in clean condition and good repair.
• Assumes responsibility for the quality standard in his/her area.
• Participates in departmental training activities and meetings.

Grade: 120

About Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital

Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital, an affiliate of Mass General Brigham, is committed to supporting patient care, research, teaching, and service to the community. We place great value on being a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organization as we aim to reflect the diversity of the patients we serve. At Mass General Brigham, we believe in equal access to quality care, employment, and advancement opportunities encompassing the full spectrum of human diversity: race, gender identity, sexual orientation, ability, religion, ethnicity, national origin, and all the other forms of human presence and expression that make us better able to provide innovative and cutting-edge healthcare and research.

Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital is a 171-bed non-profit, community teaching hospital located in Jamaica Plain directly across the street from the Arnold Arboretum. Founded in 1900, Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital offers comprehensive care in a wide variety of specialties. Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital is a designated Magnet hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, a recognition that fewer than nine percent of all US hospitals receive.

At Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital, we believe that everyone should have the chance to live a healthy life. From creating breakthroughs that have paved the way for treatments around the globe to training the next generation of providers, our patients, and those we may never meet, are at the center of everything we do. If you're looking for more than a career, join Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital. Our patients call it better care. Our employees call it home.

• High school education or equivalent preferred.
• Has a minimum of 3-5 years of experience in customer services as well as floor and carpet care
• Must have the ability to understand and converse in English at a level that allows safe, efficient performance of the job.
• Previous lead experience preferred
• Ability to read, write, and communicate in English, and understand basic medical terminology
• Ability to follow standard procedures using his/her discretion and be able to understand the needs of patients and react appropriately
• Be able to lift 25-50 pounds.

Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospitalis an Affirmative Action Employer. By embracing diverse skills, perspectives, and ideas, we choose to lead. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, sex, age, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, military service, genetic information, and/or other status protected under law. We will ensure that all individuals with a disability are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment.