What are the responsibilities and job description for the LEAD HOUSEKEEPER position at Universal Health Services, Inc.?
Dover Behavioral Health Lead Housekeeper - position day shift with some evenings and weekends
Dover Behavioral Health System is a 104-bed, acute care psychiatric hospital located in the beautiful Dover, Delaware area. Dover Behavioral Health System features individual units for adolescents and adults and offers inpatient acute care, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient programs. On average, over 10,000 patients receive care from our compassionate health care team each year at Dover Behavioral Health System. This opportunity offers working at a hospital known for its outstanding patient satisfaction, including ranking 6th for highest patient satisfaction in 2020 compared to over 200 psychiatric hospitals. We attribute this success to our talented and dedicated staff. We are the best at what we do!
Essential Job Duties:
- Clean in-patient and non-patient areas using proper supplies and equipment
- Remove trash and waste from designated areas of facility
- Make beds correctly and remove and replace linens, placing in designated storage area for laundering
- Maintain facility and furnishings in clean, orderly fashion, including dusting furniture, cleaning windows, keeping bathrooms clean and supplies replenished
- Follow hospital safety regulations when operating department equipment
Other Duties and Responsibilities:
- Will adhere to all safety policies and safe work practice
- Will adhere to all hospital policies and procedures
- Perform other duties as assigned
- Exhibit Service Excellence and support facility internal and external customer service standards.
Qualifications
High School Diploma or equivalent and experience in housekeeping, preferably in a hospital setting
Deliver and maintain a clean, healthy, pleasant environment ensuring the highest level of satisfaction for patients, staff, and visitors of the Hospital
Physical and Mental Requirements:
Able to stop, crouch, reach, walk, and stand for sustained periods of time; use extremities to press against something with steady force, as well as pull objects, using extremities to draw, drag, haul, or tug in a sustained motion; able to feel, grasp, and finger objects and lift them from a lower to higher position or horizontally from one position to another; express and exchange ideas via spoken or written work to convey detailed information in an audible and quick manner, able to make fine discriminations in sound and to perceive the nature of sounds with no less than a 40lb loss @Hz, 1,000 Hz and 2,000 Hz, with or without correction; able to substantially move wrist, hands and/or fingers in a repetitive motion.
Must be able to exert up to 20 lbs. of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 lbs. of force frequently, and occasionally exert up to 50 lbs. of force.
About Universal Health Services
One of the nation's largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services, Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS) has built an impressive record of achievement and performance. During the year, UHS was again recognized as one of the World's Most Admired Companies by Fortune; and listed in Forbes ranking of America's Largest Public Companies. Operating acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities, outpatient facilities and ambulatory care access points, an insurance offering, a physician network and various related services located all over the U.S. States, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom. www.uhs.com
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