What are the responsibilities and job description for the Linen Distribution Technician position at Baptist Health Care?
Job Description
The Linen Distribution Technician operates the hospital linen room functions and delivers clean linen to designated stocking locations throughout the hospital. The position creates and fills linen orders using a tablet and/or paper order sheet and documents linen usage with a cloud based linen software program.
Responsibilities
Required Skills, Knowledge and Abilities
Baptist Health Care is a not-for-profit health care system committed to improving the quality of life for people and communities in northwest Florida and south Alabama. The organization includes three hospitals, four medical parks, Andrews Institute for Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine, and an extensive primary and specialty care provider network. With more than 4,000 team members, Baptist Health Care is one of the largest non-governmental employers in northwest Florida.
Baptist Health Care, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. BHC maintains and enforces a policy that prohibits discrimination against any workforce members or applicants for employment because of sex, race, age, color, disability, marital status, national origin, religion, genetic information, or other category protected by federal, state or local law. Certain positions may require a Level 2 Background check through AHCA. Additional information about this requirement can be found here: Florida Care Provider Background Screening Clearinghouse
The Linen Distribution Technician operates the hospital linen room functions and delivers clean linen to designated stocking locations throughout the hospital. The position creates and fills linen orders using a tablet and/or paper order sheet and documents linen usage with a cloud based linen software program.
Responsibilities
- Completes assigned job duties including delivering of clean linen in a neat and orderly fashion, accurately records inventories and quantities of linen, and organizes and keeps the linen storage areas clean.
- Tracks inventory exchange carts and builds back to prescribed par levels. Transports carts to designated areas in a safe manner.
- Collects and returns clean, unused, rejected linen from the clean linen areas to the main clean linen room for return for credit.
- Proficienty in recording data utilizing the appropriate method (i.e., tablets and order sheets).
- Observes, records, and reports to a linen leader any instances of linen abuse and poor utilization.
- Receives customer calls for service, recording the nature of the call, and satisfying the requests of the call in a timely and professional manner.
- Keeps work area clean and organized.
Required Skills, Knowledge and Abilities
- Ability to communicate and read English at a rudimentary level.
- Interpersonal and team skills.
- Ability to follow processes and procedures.
- Ability to seek and accept direction and clarification from others.
Baptist Health Care is a not-for-profit health care system committed to improving the quality of life for people and communities in northwest Florida and south Alabama. The organization includes three hospitals, four medical parks, Andrews Institute for Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine, and an extensive primary and specialty care provider network. With more than 4,000 team members, Baptist Health Care is one of the largest non-governmental employers in northwest Florida.
Baptist Health Care, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. BHC maintains and enforces a policy that prohibits discrimination against any workforce members or applicants for employment because of sex, race, age, color, disability, marital status, national origin, religion, genetic information, or other category protected by federal, state or local law. Certain positions may require a Level 2 Background check through AHCA. Additional information about this requirement can be found here: Florida Care Provider Background Screening Clearinghouse