Lead Housekeeper

Lead Housekeeper

Do you have the career opportunities as a Lead Housekeeper you want with your current employer? We have an exciting opportunity for you to join St. David's North Austin Medical Center which is part of the nation's leading provider of healthcare services, HCA Healthcare.

Job Summary and Qualifications

Cleans and services facility. Performs a variety of environmental services duties to maintain the hospital in a neat, orderly, and sanitary condition. Participates in providing patient specific care standards as directed, and follows service excellence standards to ensure high levels of patient satisfaction.

Essential Job Responsibilities:

• Assists manager with training, inspecting, equipment maintenance, and supply inventory/restocking.
• Must cover an area when staffing is short.
• Must be able to use basic floor care equipment.
• Must properly clean floor care equipment.
• Responsible for stripping/waxing of hard floors.
• Responsible for burnishing, scrubbing, spot carpet, extract carpet, and upholster cleaning.
• Responsible for removing trash, linen, bio hazardous waste, and chemo waste appropriately.
• Responsible for the movement of beds as needed.
• Responsible for the setting up requesting meetings and events.
• Responsible for signing in and out of the time sheets.
• Responsible for clocking in and out appropriately.
• Responsible for obtaining a working pager/phone at the beginning of the shift.
• Responsible for returning pages in a timely manner.
• Responsible for cleaning occupied patient rooms.
• Responsible for cleaning discharged patient rooms.
• Responsible for cleaning isolation rooms.
• Must have good interpersonal relationships and customer service skills in adherence with AIDET and ICARE behavioral standards.
• Proper cart set-up to avoid cross contamination.
• Organizes cart in preparation of job assignment by stocking properly with all necessary supplies.
• Uses cleaning material, supplies, and prepared solutions according to procedure.
• Reports all damaged equipment to manager.
• Purpose of disinfecting.
• Meaning of standard precautions.
• Practices proper hand-washing procedures.
• Uses appropriate personal protective equipment.
• Understands isolation and signage.
• Frequently changes gloves.
• Handles biohazard waste appropriately.
• Disposes of sharps appropriately.
• Collects and transports trash throughout the facility.
• Demonstrates understanding of "clean linen" and where it is kept.
• Appropriately handles soiled linen and torn linen.
• Responds appropriately to linen shortages.
• Properly reports accidents before end of shift.
• Protects patient confidentiality.
• Wears proper protection when entering isolation rooms.
• Responds to code red or other emergency codes per policy.
• Follows SDS and "Right to Know" standards.
• Proper use of wet floor signs.
• Uses dilution station to mix chemicals properly.
• Uses only properly labeled bottles.
• Demonstrates understanding of the hazards of mixing chemical.
• Understands various use of chemicals related to the housekeeping job.
• Must be able to demonstrate basic computer skills.
• Must be able to demonstrate effective communication skills.
• Employee's conduct must reflect the Company's values and a commitment to the Code of Conduct ethics and compliance program.
• Employee reflects SDH Service Excellence standards in every interaction.
• Other duties as assigned.

Education and Experience:

Required: Minimum of one year previous housekeeping experience

Preferred: High School Diploma or GED

Benefits

St. David's North Austin Medical Center, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

Learn more about Employee Benefits

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.