Housekeeper
Aerotek
**Job Title: Housekeeper**
**Job Description**
As a housekeeper, you will be assigned to a specific floor and given a checklist of duties to complete each day. You will be responsible for cleaning public restrooms, sinks, counters, and removing garbage, as well as refilling supplies. Your tasks will also include sweeping, mopping, vacuuming, stripping linens from beds, and making beds. When cleaning patient-occupied rooms, you will introduce yourself to the patient, inquire if they need anything, and communicate their needs to the nurse or doctor.
**Responsibilities**
+ Clean public restrooms, sinks, and counters
+ Remove garbage and refill supplies
+ Sweep, mop, and vacuum floors
+ Strip linens from beds and transport them to the laundry chute
+ Make beds and perform other cleaning tasks as required
+ Introduce yourself to patients, inquire about their needs, and communicate with nurses or doctors
+ Leave a card with your name and the EVS department's phone number for the patient
**Essential Skills**
+ Housekeeping
+ Cleaning
+ Janitorial
+ Sanitizing
+ Mopping
+ General labor
+ Custodial
**Additional Skills & Qualifications**
+ No experience required
+ Must be a dedicated and strong worker with a good attitude
+ Punctual and reliable, able to work required hours and shifts
+ Excellent communication skills
+ Excellent customer service skills
+ Ability to work with difficult people and diverse backgrounds
+ Able to follow safety requirements
+ Able to lift 50 lbs and push 200 lbs
+ Available to work weekends and locked down on shift
+ Previous hospital cleaning/housekeeping experience preferred
+ Strong attention to detail
+ Ability to work in a fast-paced and stressful environment
**Why Work Here?**
+ Free medical and dental coverage for employees (minimal cost for dental)
+ Up to 50% tuition reimbursement
+ Opportunities for career advancement within the company after 6 months
+ Free monthly bus pass if needed
**Work Environment**
You will work throughout the hospital. The environment is fast-paced and can be stressful, with tasks performed in various departments such as doctors' offices, patient rooms, post-partum, emergency, behavioral health, dialysis, orthopedics, and critical care. You must be comfortable being around sick patients, including those with infections or diseases. This role involves a lot of walking, with an average of up to 7 miles per day, and is very physical.
**Job Type & Location**
This is a Contract position based out of Hood River, Oregon.
**Pay and Benefits**
The pay range for this position is $19.00 - $20.00
• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
**Workplace Type**
This is a fully onsite position in Hood River,OR.
**Application Deadline**
This position will be accepting applications until Dec 31, 2024.
**About Aerotek:**
We know that finding work is hard, and finding meaningful work is harder. Aerotek connects 180,000+ light industrial and skilled trades workers with 14,000+ employers each year, helping our workers navigate an evolving labor market and find jobs that meets their goals, skills and interests. Since 1983, we have provided a variety of career opportunities across North American industry – from short-term assignments at Fortune 500 companies where you can build your skills, to long-term opportunities where you can play a vital role solving for companies’ construction, manufacturing and maintenance challenges. Our 1,500+ experienced recruiters across 250+ offices work relentlessly to put our workforce in a position to thrive. Let us rise to meet your challenges and put our people-are everything spirit to the test as your career continues to grow.
Aerotek offers weekly pay, employee benefits including medical, dental & vision, life insurance, health advocacy and employee assistance programs, a 401(k) plan, and employee discounts.
The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
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