Housekeeper - Full-Time Day

Strength Through Diversity.

Ground breaking science. Advancing medicine. Healing made personal.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Follow department regulations, safety standards, and cleaning procedures
• Responsibilities include detailed cleaning of hospital/patient areas, dusting, sweeping, mopping, hard surface floor care, wall washing, restocking, linen distribution, collection and inventory, patient discharge beds, vacuum, moving of equipment, disposal of trash, medical waste, biohazard spills, and recycling appropriately.
• Use of machines as needed (compactor, bailer, and other appliances)
• Positions may require ability to use battery operated floor care equipment, automatic scrubbing machine, burnisher, and knowledge of stripping/refinishing floors and heavy lifting.
• Cleans bathrooms, fixtures, pipes, tile walls, metals, partitions and attachments, replenishes soap and paper supplies as needed or instructed
• Ensure and maintain cleanliness of assigned areas (bathroom, Showers, corridors, patient rooms, common areas, staff facilities, public areas, and department offices).
• Cleans, maintains and supplies assigned patient and non-patient areas according to standardized procedures of the department by utilizing mechanical equipment, tools, chemical solutions and cleaning supplies
• Disinfects rooms, beds, patient furniture and equipment such as rolling stock with germicidal solution
• Prepares cleaning solutions, housekeeping supplies and equipment as assigned to perform the following housekeeping related tasks
• Dusts, cleans furniture, windowsills, light fixtures, vents, ledges, blinds, shades, radiators, doors and frames, moldings, windows, lights, clocks, signs, cabinets and any other areas which accumulate dust and/or soil according to departmental procedure

Requirements:

• HS Diploma or GED
• Prior housekeeping experience preferred
• Able to learn and operate heavy battery operated floor care equipment.
• Focus on Hospital’s commitment to patient satisfaction and ability to enhance patient experience.
• Previous floor refinishing experience preferred

Strength Through Diversity

The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity and inclusion are drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. Yet we’re as diverse as the city we call home- culturally, ethically, in outlook and lifestyle. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together and participate actively as a leader within the Mount Sinai Health System by:

• Engaging with relevant thought leaders and policy-makers at the federal and state levels, and representing the Health System as assigned.
• Confronting racist, sexist or other inappropriate behavior and challenges exclusionary organizational practices and serving as a role model to promote anti-racist behaviors.
• Serving as the primary resource management representative of the Mount Sinai leadership teams, committees, etc., and acting as the primary executive leader interface between Mount Sinai and key executives from the health systems’ vendors and partners
• Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.
• Using a lens of equity in establishing and promoting policies and procedures and providing opportunities for all to thrive.

We work hard to acquire and retain the best people, and to create a welcoming, nurturing work environment where you can develop professionally. We share the belief that all employees, regardless of job title or expertise, can make an impact on quality patient care.

Explore more about this opportunity and how you can help us write a new chapter in our story!

Who We Are

Over 42,000 employees strong, the mission of the Mount Sinai Health System is to provide compassionate patient care with seamless coordination and to advance medicine through unrivaled education, research, and outreach in the many diverse communities we serve.

Formed in September 2013, The Mount Sinai Health System combines the excellence of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai with seven premier hospital campuses, including Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Mount Sinai Beth Israel Brooklyn, The Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai West (formerly Mount Sinai Roosevelt), Mount Sinai Morningside (formerly Mount Sinai St. Luke’s), and New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai.

The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides equal employment opportunity to all its incumbents and applicants for employment without unlawful discrimination on the basis of their actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, gender identity, age, disability, marital or parental status, sexual orientation, veteran, immigration, citizenship, or other protected status.

EOE including Veterans and Disabled

Compensation

The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides a salary range to comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for the role is $20.91 - $22.25 Hourly. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and hospital need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.