Housekeeper

Responsibilities     

Performs all household duties in the facility and administrative buildings such as dusting, washing windows, sweeping, mopping, buffing floors, etc.                                 

Operate housekeeping equipment used in cleaning and maintaining the facility. 

Assesses general condition of facility and makes recommendations for corrective or preventive maintenance. 

Distributes facility supplies and materials; performs additional duties as assigned by Lead Housekeeper.

Performs other related duties as assigned by the Lead Housekeeper or other applicable personnel.

Qualifications

Two years’ experience in housekeeping, some organizational record keeping and filing skills. 

Ability to use housekeeping equipment for cleaning facility.

Ability to work under various working conditions. 

Prefer high school diploma or equivalent; experience may substitute for education.

Must be physically able to lift 50 pounds and hold for one minute.

Must be physically capable to receive verbal and written directions. Must be physically capable of sitting and standing for several hours at a time.

Must have good auditory, visual and olfactory ability. Ability to use hands and fingers to handle or feel objects, tools or controls.

Must be able to maintain effective audio, visual discrimination and perception needed for making observations, communicating with others, reading and writing, and operating office equipment and other treatment equipment.

Must be able to use a telephone to communicate verbally and a computer to communicate through written means, to review information and enter/retrieve data, to see and read characters on a computer screen, chart or other treatment items.

Must be willing and able to work with all patients of Methodist Family Health.

Methodist Family Health (MFH) requires its employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 pursuant to CMS regulation 86 FR 61555, with exceptions only as required by law.

Flu shot is mandatory and required for all positions (subject to qualified exemptions).

Job descriptions are not intended, nor should be construed, to be all-inclusive lists of all responsibilities, skills, efforts or working conditions associated with a job. While this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the job requirements, management reserves the right to modify, add or remove duties from particular jobs and to assign other duties as necessary.

When an employee performs two or more different jobs, for which different straight time hourly rates are established, the employee will be paid during overtime hours as a rate not less than one and one-half time the hourly rate established for the type of work he or she is performing during the overtime hours.