General Statement of Job
This position provides cleaning and custodial services for the purpose of providing a safe and hazard-free environment for the Health Care District personnel, facilities, and patients.
Essential Functions:
- Performs all cleaning procedures in accordance with facility policy.
- Responds to emergency cleaning needs for the purpose of preventing safety and health hazards.
- Sweeps, mop, and machine scrub halls, rest rooms, patient rooms, common living areas, and related facility areas as directed.
- Cleans refrigerators, rest rooms, kitchens, counters, and mirrors.
- Washes windows and doors, disinfects walls, dust vents, cleans mattresses, and takes out garbage.
- Stocks rooms, and rest rooms with appropriate supplies.
- Assists in proper care of equipment. Reports any malfunctions or breakdowns in facility areas and equipment.
- Ensures proper sanitation methods are utilized to maintain an environmentally safe environment.
- Ensures proper handling and disposal of chemicals, supplies, and hazardous wastes.
- Observe waste disposal procedures in accordance with facility policy.
- Emergency duty may be required of the incumbent that includes working in Red Cross shelters or to perform other emergency duties including, but not limited to, responses to threats or disasters, man-made or natural.
Customer Service:
Every employee knows and understands his/her customers and focuses on delivering to them the highest quality services(s) in the context of the overall mission.
Communication:
The ability to express ideas effectively face-to-face, as well as in writing, in individual and group situations, adjusting language and terminology to the needs of the audience, and the ability to synthesize information received verbally and in writing.
Teamwork:
Creates effective working relationships within and across organizational boundaries.
Initiative and Ingenuity:
The capacity for self-motivation that is manifested by innovation and creativity.
Commitment to Quality:
Consistently maintains a high level of quality that meets specific standard operating practices and procedures, consistent with organizational goals.
Productivity:
Employee makes use of work time in an efficient and productive manner.
Promoting Quality, Customer Service and Productivity:
Utilizes continuous quality assurance processes to ensure quality, appropriate services are rendered to the customer in order to meet or surpass established goals and objectives
Meeting Strategic Goals and Objectives:
Plans actions to accomplish designated and desired outcomes.
Additional Duties:
This job description reflects the general duties considered necessary to describe the principal functions of the job as identified and shall not be considered as a complete description of all the work requirements and expectations that may be inherent in the position. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position. Management of the Health Care District of Palm Beach County reserves the right to assign duties not listed herein as necessary to accomplish the goals of the organization.
