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Housekeeper-May 2024
Lancaster
May 1, 2025
About Housekeeper

  Summary

  Full time 1.0 FTE

  Night shift 10:00pm-6:30am

  Working every other weekend and every other holiday

  Job Description

  POSITION SUMMARY: Under the director of Environmental Services Manager and Administrative Supervisor, the Housekeeper cleans and services patient, public, clinical, and administrative areas, maintaining the standards of Lancaster General Hospital.

  ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Qualified individuals must have the ability (with or without reasonable accommodation) to perform the following duties:

  Cleans all environmental surfaces including, but not limited to, furniture, beds, bathroom fixtures, window sills, door frames, vents, televisions, walls, light fixtures and windows, following universal precautions.

  Dries and wet mops rooms, hallways, stairs, bathroom, and offices; spot cleans and vacuums carpets.

  Gathers and disposes of refuse and soiled linen following universal precautions. Fills supply dispensers.

  Contacts nursing personnel for discharges/transfers of patients, reporting available patient rooms and sending maintenance requests via computer system.

  Wears and answers pager responding to routine requests.

  Removes, washes, and rehangs cubicle curtains, shower curtains, and window treatments.

  Possesses a working knowledge of universal precaution, MSDS, and compactor recycling operations, and applies as necessary.

  SECONDARY FUNCTIONS: The following duties are considered secondary to the primary duties listed above:

  Keeps service closets and housekeeper carts properly stocked, orderly, and cleaned.

  Reports hospital property and equipment in need of repair, transfers furniture, and spot cleans furniture, as necessary.

  Attends in-services and programs as assigned.

  Other duties as assigned.

  JOB REQUIREMENTS

  MINIMUM REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

  PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

  • High school diploma or equivalent (GED).

  • Six (6) months of experience in hospitality/medical housekeeping.

  COGNITIVE REQUIREMENTS :

  ATTENTION/CONCENTRATION ‑ The following level of ability is essential for the jobholder to focus on certain aspects of current experience and reject others:

  • The position requires the ability to attend to a specific stimulus without being distracted by extraneous environmental stimuli. The individual must be able to attend to environmental detail with the ability to separate essential from non-essential or irrelevant stimuli. The attention skills required are generally considered to be automatic--passive, but focused with an intact capacity for select perception.

  NEW LEARNING AND MEMORY ‑ The following level of ability is essential for the jobholder to learn and retain material:

  • Job demands are only moderately routine and predictable. Minor changes may occur which require the individual to be able to understand and carry out detailed but uninvolved instructions.

  PROBLEM SOLVING, REASONING AND CREATIVE THINKING ‑ The following level of ability that is essential for the jobholder to think (in order to solve a problem) by combining two or more elements from past experience or imaginative thought:

  • The requirement for autonomous problem solving or creativity of thought in the position is absent or minimal. The individual must have the ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out simple one or two step instructions. Most aspects of the position, and the actions taken to resolve them, are repetitive in nature, and should ultimately become rote or automatic. There is little variability in task demands, or task demands are accomplished under continuous direction from another.

  APTITUDES: The following are essential requirements of the position in relation to job-worker situations. These items describe how a worker must adapt, adjust, conform or act:

  Repetitive work: Ability to continuously perform the same type of work for extended periods of time, according to set procedures, sequence or pace.

  Working within tolerances, set limits or standards: Ability to adapt to situations requiring the precise attainment of set limits, tolerances, or standards; to be precise, thorough, exacting, or meticulous in regard to material worked; or in activities such as numerical determinations, record preparation, or inspecting.

  Performing under stressful conditions: Ability to perform under stress when confronted with emergency, critical, unusual, or dangerous situations, or in situations in which working speed and sustained attention are critical aspects of the job; to be subject to danger or risk, or to tension as a regular, consistent part of the job.

  Communication: Ability to exchange information with others clearly and concisely; to present ideas, facts and technical information.

  Interpersonal relations: Ability to maintain relationships that facilitate task accomplishment; to cooperate and resolve conflicts; to recognize needs and be sensitive of others.

  EQUIPMENT USAGE REQUIREMENTS

  Equipment/Tools: Mops, cleaning cloths. Vacuum, compactor, floor buffer, floor machine, telephone, pager, cart, wringer, bucket, computer.

  Software: N/A

  PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

  Rarely 0-10%; Occasionally 11-35%; Frequently 36-70%; Continuously 71-100%

  Body Position/Movement :

  Sit: Rarely

  Stand: Continuously

  Walk: Continuously

  Bend: Frequently

  Push: Continuously

  Pull: Frequently

  Kneel/Squat: Occasionally

  Reach: Frequently

  Twist: Frequently

  Balance: Occasionally

  Climb: Occasioanlly

  Lifting: Degree of physical exertion is Moderate

  Light , exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to move objects.

  Moderate , exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects.

  Heavy, exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.

  Sensory Abilities specifically required:

  Vision

  Hearing

  PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT

  WORKING CONDITIONS: Position involves exposure to the following harmful elements:

  Bio hazardous Waste

  Blood borne Pathogens

  Chemicals

  Moving/Rotating Machinery

  Disclaimer: This job description is not intended and should not be construed to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions associated with the job. It is intended to be a reflection of those principal job elements essential for recruitment and selection, for making fair job evaluations, and for establishing performance standards. The percentages of time spent performing job duties are estimates, and should not be considered absolute. The incumbent shall perform all other functions and/or be cross-trained as shall be determined at the sole discretion of management, who has the right to amend, modify, or terminate this job in part or in whole. Incumbent must be able to perform all job functions safely.

  Benefits At A Glance:

  PENN MEDICINE LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH offers the following benefits to employees:

  100% Tuition Assistance at The Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences

  Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays

  Shift, Weekend and On-Call Differentials

  Health, Dental and Vision Coverage

  Short-Term and Long-Term Disability

  Retirement Savings Account with Company Matching

  Child Care Subsidies

  Onsite Gym and Fitness Classes

  Disclaimer

  PENN MEDICINE LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to hiring a diverse workforce. All openings will be filled based on qualifications without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, veteran status, disability, age, religion or any other classification protected by law.

  Search Firm Representatives please read carefully: PENN MEDICINE LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH is not seeking assistance or accepting unsolicited resumes from search firms for this employment opportunity. Regardless of past practice, all resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at PENN MEDICINE LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH via-email, the Internet or directly to hiring managers at Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health in any form without a valid written search agreement in place for that position will be deemed the sole property of PENN MEDICINE LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH, and no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by PENN MEDICINE LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH as a result of the referral or through other means.

  PENN MEDICINE LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH, a member of the University of Pennsylvania Health System (Penn Medicine), is a not-for-profit health system with a comprehensive network of care encompassing Lancaster General Hospital (LGH), Women & Babies Hospital and the Lancaster Rehabilitation Hospital (a partnership with Kindred Healthcare). We are an Accredited Trauma Center-Level I through the Pennsylvania Trauma Systems Foundation with 805 Licensed beds. Our membership in Penn Medicine brings together the strengths of a world-renowned, not-for-profit academic medical center and a nationally recognized, not-for-profit community healthcare system.

  Outpatient services are provided at the Downtown Outpatient and Suburban Outpatient Pavilions, along with additional outpatient centers and Express and Urgent Care locations throughout the region. Lancaster General Health Physicians is a network of more than 300 primary-care and specialty physicians, at more than 40 offices throughout the region.

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