Housekeeper- Full-Time Nights

Schedule: Full Time 40 hours, NIGHTS . 10:00 pm- 6:30 am, Monday - Friday holiday rotation

Supports the organization’s mission, vision and values by exhibiting the following behaviors: Excellence in maintaining a clean safe, orderly and attractive environment, throughout all Hospital departments, patient areas, and all support areas, including hospital controlled areas. Also performs discharge cleaning as needed.

Principal Duties/Physical Demands

• Performs the 8 steps cleaning procedures, daily cleaning, discharge cleaning, bed making, wall spotting, toilet cleaning, high and low dusting, O.R. terminal cleaning.
• Completes work from previous shift if needed, reports all incomplete assignment and maintenance issues.
• Cleans up all organic body waste, i.e. blood and body fluids, feces, sputum etc. as instructed by the supervisor or team leader.
• Hangs cubical curtains, shower curtains and window curtains
• Up on discharge cleaning, disinfect and/or sanitize I.V. poles, pumps and other patient equipment.
• Performs all Environmental Services related tasks and demonstrates ability to follow department guidelines related to the work.
• Performs basic and heavier cleaning functions in assigned areas following established schedules and using prescribed methods.
• Cleans patient equipment as requested by supervisor including beds and all room furnishings.
• Assists in manpower support for office and/or related moves, special conference room set-ups and any other occasions as required.
• Ability to perform cleaning of emergency spills when observed and/or up on request.

Grade: 100

About Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital

Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital, an affiliate of Mass General Brigham, is committed to supporting patient care, research, teaching, and service to the community. We place great value on being a diverse, equitable and inclusive organization as we aim to reflect the diversity of the patients we serve. At Mass General Brigham, we believe in equal access to quality care, employment and advancement opportunities encompassing the full spectrum of human diversity: race, gender identity, sexual orientation, ability, religion, ethnicity, national origin and all the other forms of human presence and expression that make us better able to provide innovative and cutting-edge healthcare and research.

Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital is a 171- bed non-profit, community teaching hospital located in Jamaica Plain directly across the street from the Arnold Arboretum. Founded in 1900, Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital offers comprehensive care in a wide variety of specialties. Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital is a designated Magnet hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, a recognition that fewer than nine percent of all US hospitals receive.

At Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital, we believe that everyone should have the chance to live a healthy life. From creating breakthroughs that have paved the way for treatments around the globe to training the next generation of providers, our patients, and those we may never meet, are at the center of everything we do. If you’re looking for more than a career, join Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital. Our patients call it better care. Our employees call it home.

• High school education or equivalent.
• Must have ability to understand and converse in English at a level which allows safe, efficient performance of the job.
• Be able to lift 25-50 pounds.
• Requires physical demands, ability to stand for long periods of time, bending, stooping, and lifting
• Competent in using proper chemicals for proper tasks
• Ability to learn and demonstrate new procedures related to the health care industry

Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital is an Affirmative Action Employer. By embracing diverse skills, perspectives and ideas, we choose to lead. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, sex, age, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, military service, genetic information, and/or other status protected under law. We will ensure that all individuals with a disability are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.