Relief Housekeeping Assistant (multiple openings & shifts)

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Rotating - 08 Hour (United States of America)

Located in the heart of Silicon Valley Stanford Health Cares (SHC) mission is to heal humanity through science and compassion one patient at a time. Environmental Services (EVS) interacts daily with patients staff and visitors creating significant opportunities for impacting and enhancing the patient and employee experience. EVS is responsible for general aesthetics cleaning and waste streams and are essential part in Infection Prevention initiatives for multiple buildings.

Relief Housekeeping Assistants starting pay is $31.00 an hour. The Relief Housekeeping Assistants responsibilities are as follows:

Provide for the cleanliness sanitation of surfaces handling and disposal of solid and biohazardous waste (blood and other bodily fluids)
Floorcare: dust mop wet mop vacuum buffer spot and spillage removal
Cleaning patient rooms non-patient rooms cleaning and restocking of restrooms cleaning general area

Shifts - all 8 hours long
o Employees work for one shift block: Days Evening or Nights
o Employees are expected to have availability for the entire shift to be able to start at any of the shift times.
o Relief Employees must be available throughout the week including weekends and holidays for at least one of the shifts below:
Days 7am-8:30pm
Rotating start times of 7 AM 11 AM 12 PM
Evenings 3pm-1am
Rotating start times of 1PM 2PM 3PM 4:30PM
Nights 11pm-7:30am
Rotating start times of 8PM 11PM
The more days of availability you have the more shifts you can pick up

A Relief Position does not have a set schedule guaranteed hours or benefits. While Relief employees may be included on the work schedule released every two weeks many of their hours will come from a supervisors same-day call to come into work when needed.

After passing competency checks Relief employees are eligible to apply for Part-Time or Full-Time positions which have guaranteed hours and full benefits. All frontline Housekeeping Assistants start as Relief Housekeeping Assistants.

This is a Stanford Health Care job.

A Brief Overview
Under the direct supervision of a Housekeeping Supervisor provides for the cleanliness sanitation of surfaces handling and disposal of solid and biohazardous waste in assigned areas follows standard precautions and all other infection policies safety practices and cleaning procedures and performs various duties as assigned. May be assigned to one or more work locations.

Locations
Stanford Health Care

What you will do

• A. Total cleaning of patient clinic and satellite areas:
  
  Floor care: May include use of dust mops wet mops with germicide solution
  vacuums buffers spot and spillage removal.
  
  Furniture care: Washing with an approved germicidal solution and polishing.
  
  Miscellaneous: May involve dusting screens cleaning of TVs washing and
  wall washing as assigned.
  
  Wall care: Dust removal including high-dusting spot washing and wall washing
  as assigned.
  
  May dump all regular soiled linens down linen chute; may remove regular and
  biohazardous waste; (may deliver all of the above to the dock area). Removes
  compacted boxes for scheduled trash pick-up.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• B. Total cleaning of restrooms:
  
  Cleans toilet bowls sinks showers and shower walls; spot-washes walls and
  partitions polishes chrome fixtures mirrors and utensil rack; cleans floor changes cubical curtains.
  Handles regular and biohazardous waste removal.
  
  Replenishes restroom supplies paper towels and soap.
• C. Other related duties in patient area:
  
  Total cleaning of auxiliary areas as assigned including diet kitchens treatment rooms chart rooms
  soiled linen rooms and other special rooms.
  
  Total cleaning of isolation or contaminated areas. Also assist with emergency clean ups.
  
  Total cleaning of discharge and transfer patient rooms.
  
  Performs related duties on special requests such as removal of window coverings and cubical curtains.
• D. General cleaning of non-patient areas (offices laboratories and classrooms):
  
  Daily cleaning: dust-mopping floors trash removal total restroom cleaning
  and dusting of uncongested desks or bookshelves.
  
  Twice a week: cleaning consists of damp mopping floors and/or vacuuming of
  carpeting or as needed.
  
  Reports needed minor repairs of rooms (laboratories offices restrooms
  furnishing and equipment etc.). Maintains equipment supplies and materials
  by frequent cleaning proper storage.

Education Qualifications

• None

Experience Qualifications

• 6 months of related housekeeping experience

Required Knowledge Skills and Abilities

• Demonstrates ability to prioritize work assignment and uses time efficiently
• Demonstrates business communications skills including reading and understanding written and oral instructions and be able to follow work schedules
• Must be able to successfully complete in-service orientation and continuing education training programs
• Observes and practices standard precautions and hospital established safety regulations and procedures
• Learns and practices aseptic cleaning techniques and isolation cleaning procedures

These principles apply to ALL employees:

SHC Commitment to Providing an Exceptional Patient & Family Experience

Stanford Health Care sets a high standard for delivering value and an exceptional experience for our patients and families. Candidates for employment and existing employees must adopt and execute C-I-CARE standards for all of patients families and towards each other. C-I-CARE is the foundation of Stanfords patient-experience and represents a framework for patient-centered interactions. Simply put we do what it takes to enable and empower patients and families to focus on health healing and recovery.

You will do this by executing against our three experience pillars from the patient and familys perspective:

• Know Me: Anticipate my needs and status to deliver effective care
• Show Me the Way: Guide and prompt my actions to arrive at better outcomes and better health
• Coordinate for Me: Own the complexity of my care through coordination

Equal Opportunity Employer Stanford Health Care (SHC) strongly values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity and non-discrimination inall ofits policies and practices including the area of employment. Accordingly SHC does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race color sex sexual orientation or gender identity and/or expression religion age national or ethnic origin political beliefs marital status medical condition genetic information veteran status or disability or the perception of any of the above. People of all genders members of all racial and ethnic groups people with disabilities and veterans are encouraged to apply. Qualified applicants with criminal convictions will be considered after an individualized assessment of the conviction and the job requirements.

Base Pay Scale: Generally starting at $31.00 - $34.67 per hour

The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors including but not limited to internal equity experience education specialty and training. This pay scale is not a promise of a particular wage.