Fox Chase Healthcare is seeking professional and dedicated Housekeeping Staff and Laundry Assistant. We are resident-centered and quality-focused! Our workplace culture is all about uplifting people. If you are looking for a healthcare organization where you can bring your best "you" to work, where you can make a difference, and where you can team-up with like-minded co-workers, then we are also looking for you.

Housekeeping Assistant's are responsible for the following:

• Assist in maintaining a facility that is always neat in appearance and odor free.
• Follow a regular schedule of all daily, weekly, monthly, seasonal, and annual cleaning requirements.
• Clean (including vacuuming, wiping, mopping, polishing, etc.) rooms, offices, and common areas; polish and straighten items; confirm residents’ rooms are safe, comfortable, and maintained in an attractive manner and residents’ personal items are safeguarded.
• Coordinate daily housekeeping services with nursing services when performing routine cleaning assignments in resident living and/or recreational areas.
• Dispose of refuse daily in accordance with facility established sanitation procedures.
• Clean up spills, soiled areas, and other conditions as observed or directed.
• Follow an uninterrupted work schedule when Supervisor is not available.
• Follow special cleaning schedules such as windows, walls, curtains, stripping floors, washing beds, etc.
• Maintain a cleaning cart fully equipped with needed supplies.
• Assist with transferring resident and belongings, (bed, furniture, etc.) from one room to another.
• Extensive cleaning of the resident's room upon discharge or death of a resident.

• Gather and transport soiled laundry from all buildings to the laundry facility
• Wash and dry laundry
• Fold all clean laundry and distribute to residents
• Keep accurate records of linens
• Notify management of any issues with equipment
• Assist housekeeping as needed

Requirements

• Proven experience as a housekeeping staff
• Further experience in customer service will be appreciated
• Practical knowledge of day-to-day cleaning in a nursing facility.
• Organized and detailed in work performance.
• Good communication skills with excellent self-discipline and patience.
• Genuine caring for and interest in elderly and disabled people in a nursing facility