Lead Hospital Housekeeper - Virginia Staffing : Job Details

Experience the HCA Healthcare difference where colleagues are trusted, valued members of our healthcare team. Grow your career with an organization committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care, and where the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual is recognized. We are seeking a Lead Hospital Housekeeper for our team to ensure that we continue to provide all patients with high quality, efficient care.

Did you get into our industry for these reasons? We are an amazing team that works hard to support each other and are seeking a phenomenal addition like you who feels patient care is as meaningful as we do. We want you to apply!

Job Summary and Qualifications: Serves as a working Lead Housekeeper. Under minimal supervision maintains premises in a clean and orderly manner. Applies skills appropriate for the position with the ability to effectively communicate policies, and/or procedures in a manner easily understood by fellow employees. Specific elements and essential functions include: filling out injury occurrence reports, working with employees when staffing requires so, conducting in-service training and staff huddle, handing out assignments, monitoring and being responsible for all work assigned to staff for a particular shift, completing inspections of assigned areas and Black Light inspections as directed by Supervisor, assisting in ensuring a safe working environment throughout the facility for all employees, assisting in monitoring and providing suggestions for increased service or productivity based on daily census, assisting with monitoring classroom set ups, supply usage and restocking of supply deliveries, performing laundry services for curtains, mops, rags and proper sanitization of washer, assisting in orienting, training and coaching of staff, assisting with increasing patient satisfaction scores, ability to interact with other hospital staff members, visitors, and patients in a friendly, cooperative manner, actively participating in Departmental Safety Committee and Employee Engagement Committee, responsible for the removal of Hazardous Waste from Satellite Storage areas, familiarity with operation of heavy duty/electrical cleaning equipment, monitoring and dispatching requests for STAT discharge room cleaning, performing day to day housekeeping assignments in addition to lead duties, performing basic cleaning functions in assigned areas following established schedules and using prescribed methods, dusting horizontal surfaces, emptying, wiping and relining wastebaskets, damp wiping disinfecting all furniture, cleaning and polishing metal and porcelain fixtures in bathrooms, dust mopping and damp mopping floors, spot cleaning walls and windows, polishing metal surfaces, replenishing paper and soap supplies, stripping bed linens to perform discharge cleaning, performing discharge cleaning as needed, using a safety ladder to remove and replace cubicle curtains, performing precaution room cleaning as needed, vacuuming carpets, spot cleaning as needed, transporting soiled linen to collection point, measuring and mixing bleach and other cleaning solutions, assisting in cleaning up of spills as needed, maintaining assigned equipment for cleanliness and recommending repairs as needed, observing and reporting the need for repairs to furniture, building and fixtures, in case of fire or other internal disaster, assisting in evacuating patients, in case of a community disaster, assisting nursing as needed, performing all other tasks as assigned.

What qualifications you will need: High School or GED Diploma.

Chippenham Hospital has provided quality healthcare services since 1972, giving patients access to highly-trained physicians and advanced technology. With more than 50 years of pioneering healthcare, our 460+ bed hospital is one of the region's leading acute care facilities located on the Southside of Richmond. We are the region's first choice for orthopedics, joint care, behavioral health and cardiovascular care. The Joint Commission awarded Chippenham Hospital the Gold Seal of Approval and named us a Top Performer on Key Quality Measures for advanced primary stroke, heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, perinatal care, hip and knee replacement and surgical care. We are also a Level I Burn Center and Level I Trauma Center.

If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply for our Lead Hospital Housekeeper opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be directly contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing apply today! We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.