Hospitals
On a daily basis, hospitals utilize a large quantity of linens—such as bedding, gowns, and scrubs.
Hospital housekeepers are responsible for gathering, washing extremely soiled linen, folding, inspecting, and mending all of the linens used by their facility.
Full-Time
Locations
Hospital housekeepers are responsible for maintaining the appearance and sanitation of all areas in a hospital, including wards, cots & beds, diagnostic testing rooms, waiting areas, staff areas, examination rooms, and operating rooms.
In areas where patients stay, hospital housekeepers are responsible for supplying fresh linens and keeping the bathrooms, floors, and other surfaces clean and neat. When a patient is discharged or moved to another room, it falls upon housekeepers to disinfect the rooms with a specialized cleaning process and maintain the room cleanly.
Garbage and Waste
Hospital housekeepers empty waste containers and receptacles and trash from all areas of the hospital and label the collected trash with department, date, and time of collection. Once it is collected, housekeepers are responsible for disposing of trash into a common facility, recyclables, and medical waste according to hospital policies and procedures.
Maintenance
The housekeeping department is responsible for informing the maintenance department about faulty devices, pipes, or machines and for scheduling routine maintenance of repairs.
Educational Requirements No formal education is required to work as a housekeeper. The successful candidate must have knowledge of cleaning and sanitation products. He must also understand how to properly clean sensitive materials such as wood without damaging them.
Job Responsibilities for a Housekeeping Staff
A housekeeper cleans all rooms to which she is charged or assigned. The housekeeper dusts, sweeps, mops, vacuums, and scrubs. He or she maintains all cleaning supplies and equipment, and also ensures they are available to the concerned department during emergencies.
Cleaning includes sweeping and mopping all over the hospital, general passage and common area, non‑clinical area, and external premises. The task also includes emptying dustbins, removing cobwebs, cleaning door glass and windows, shelves, grills, water dispensers, pneumatic containers, refrigerator, chamber cleaning, etc. They refill potable water for patients, visitors, and staff. The housekeepers are responsible for maintaining all rest rooms of the hospital clean, neat, and dry. They also refill soap solutions, tissue, napkins, water, etc. They are the workers responsible for the upkeep and cleaning of hospital facilities in total.
To be a successful housekeeper, they should have knowledge of housekeeping materials and the housekeeping work performed. A housekeeper must be able to stand for long periods of time, work around chemical cleaning solutions, and know how to properly use cleaning equipment such as a broom, manual mop, dry mop, wet mop, duster, and vacuum cleaner. A housekeeper must be self‑motivated and able to complete his/her tasks with little or no supervision.
Need to be flexible to work in the hospital during absences as per the supervisor's guidance.
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Hospital housekeepers are responsible for gathering, washing extremely soiled linen, folding, inspecting, and mending all of the linens used by their facility.
Full-Time
Locations
Hospital housekeepers are responsible for maintaining the appearance and sanitation of all areas in a hospital, including wards, cots & beds, diagnostic testing rooms, waiting areas, staff areas, examination rooms, and operating rooms.
In areas where patients stay, hospital housekeepers are responsible for supplying fresh linens and keeping the bathrooms, floors, and other surfaces clean and neat. When a patient is discharged or moved to another room, it falls upon housekeepers to disinfect the rooms with a specialized cleaning process and maintain the room cleanly.
Garbage and Waste
Hospital housekeepers empty waste containers and receptacles and trash from all areas of the hospital and label the collected trash with department, date, and time of collection. Once it is collected, housekeepers are responsible for disposing of trash into a common facility, recyclables, and medical waste according to hospital policies and procedures.
Maintenance
The housekeeping department is responsible for informing the maintenance department about faulty devices, pipes, or machines and for scheduling routine maintenance of repairs.
Educational Requirements No formal education is required to work as a housekeeper. The successful candidate must have knowledge of cleaning and sanitation products. He must also understand how to properly clean sensitive materials such as wood without damaging them.
Job Responsibilities for a Housekeeping Staff
A housekeeper cleans all rooms to which she is charged or assigned. The housekeeper dusts, sweeps, mops, vacuums, and scrubs. He or she maintains all cleaning supplies and equipment, and also ensures they are available to the concerned department during emergencies.
Cleaning includes sweeping and mopping all over the hospital, general passage and common area, non‑clinical area, and external premises. The task also includes emptying dustbins, removing cobwebs, cleaning door glass and windows, shelves, grills, water dispensers, pneumatic containers, refrigerator, chamber cleaning, etc. They refill potable water for patients, visitors, and staff. The housekeepers are responsible for maintaining all rest rooms of the hospital clean, neat, and dry. They also refill soap solutions, tissue, napkins, water, etc. They are the workers responsible for the upkeep and cleaning of hospital facilities in total.
To be a successful housekeeper, they should have knowledge of housekeeping materials and the housekeeping work performed. A housekeeper must be able to stand for long periods of time, work around chemical cleaning solutions, and know how to properly use cleaning equipment such as a broom, manual mop, dry mop, wet mop, duster, and vacuum cleaner. A housekeeper must be self‑motivated and able to complete his/her tasks with little or no supervision.
Need to be flexible to work in the hospital during absences as per the supervisor's guidance.
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