AddressUnder close supervision and in accordance with defined procedures and established schedules and assignments, performs a variety of comprehensive housekeeping cleaning duties throughout the entire hospital complex on a daily basis.
Responsibilities
1. Perform comprehensive cleaning in all areas of the hospital such as patients rooms (including isolation); nurses stations; operation rooms; laboratory; radiology; various administrative offices; public lavatory; radiology; various administrative offices; elevators; cafeteria; stairwells; hallways and corridors throughout the hospital, etc.
2. Collect regulated and non-regulated medical waste from work assignment areas and deposit in designated pickup areas.
3. Must observe Universal Precautions and all infection control techniques employed by housekeepers in a hospital environment.
4. Interact with all patients, visitors and staff in a pleasant, customer friendly manner, assisting them when possible, or referring them to someone who can.
5. Always be in proper uniform and wearing employee ID when on duty.
6. Vacuum and spot shampoo carpets, rugs, and runners, as well as cloth covered furniture. Clean sinks, toilets, showers, tubs, mirrors, wall & floor vents, and wall mounted light fixtures. Dust, damp wipe, and polish furniture, telephone, TV sets, etc. Spot wash walls, doors, and kick plates on doors.
7. Thoroughly clean, and make up beds in patient rooms after patient discharge. High & low dusting and damp wiping of all horizontal and vertical surfaces, including walls, ceilings and other appurtenances. Clean and replenish hand soap dispensers. Clean, polish & replenish toilet tissue & paper towel dispensers. Clean and polish elevator cabs, their floors, ceilings, walls, tracks, and external doors & metal facings.
8. Clean waste receptacles, inside and out. Clean and dust window blinds and shades. Clean glass partitions, windows in doors, and other glass surfaces (including the exterior of lobby and door glass on the first/ground floors). Vacuum window curtains and dust/damp wipe window frames & sills. Clean closets, bureaus and bedside stands (inside & out) in patient rooms. Report inoperable/broken/unsafe equipment to supervisor.
9. Clean housekeeping equipment at the end of each day. Clean Building Services closet daily and maintain in an orderly fashion. Move or relocate furniture, equipment and supplies Receive, store, inventory and deliver housekeeping supplies. Set up conference rooms for meetings. Spray buff floors with low and high speed floor machines. Scrub, strip and apply finishing products (wax) to floors using floor scrubbing machine and low speed floor machines.
10. Shampoo carpeted floors with spin bonnets, dry foam or extraction equipment. Apply restorer chemicals to floors and burnish with high speed machines. Clean overhead ceiling lights and vents. Remove for cleaning and rehang window and cubicle curtains. Wash walls from floor to ceiling. Wash ceilings
Qualifications
- High School Diploma or GED
- Must be able to read and understand hazard communication labels and instructions for use on various cleaning chemicals; and be able to understand in-service training programs that address infection control issues.
- Rudimentary/conversational English language skills are necessary, especially for in-service training programs.
- Six months of practical experience is preferred; however, willingness to undergo on-the-job training and participation in in-service training programs will suffice.
Collective bargaining unit: SEIU Local 144-MSQ-NonRN
Employer Description
Strength Through Diversity
The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:
- Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.
- Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.
- Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.
We work hard to acquire and retain the best people and to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to professional advance. We share the belief that all employees, regardless of job title or expertise contribute to the patient experience and quality of patient care.
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“About the Mount Sinai Health System:
Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek’s “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals” ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.
The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism.”
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