JOB SUMMARY:
As a valued interdisciplinary team member, the Housekeeping Aide, under the direction of the Support Services Manager, performs general cleaning duties in the Park Place Home, including the cleaning of Residents’ rooms, bathrooms, staff rooms, offices and other areas as assigned. Follows all relevant Park Place policies including infection prevention and control, WHMIS and quality improvement. Treats Residents with dignity and demonstrates an attitude of caring. The Housekeeping Aide ensures a commitment to Resident safety and to our “culture of safety” as per Park Place Strategic Directions.

You may also be assigned to other departments on different days, such as Laundry or Dietary, as operational needs require. A Dietary Aide assists with food preparation, including washing, preparing, and delivering food and ware supplies. They also assist with receiving, distributing, storing, and maintaining stock and supplies. A Laundry Attendant collects, sorts, launders, and returns laundry to its source within the Home, including resident and site laundry, while following infection prevention and control guidelines and laundry equipment procedures.

TYPICAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Duties and Responsibilities may include all or some of the following responsibilities depending on the size of the home and may be combined with another Job Title if applicable.

Housekeeping
1. Vacuums, dry mop, and wet mops all floors.
2. Cleans bathroom, commodes, lifts, and other equipment as assigned.
3. Performs daily, routine, and terminal cleaning of Resident rooms including disinfecting beds and turning/flipping mattresses, cleaning of windows and blinds/curtains.
4. Strips, refinishes, and polishes floors.
5. Ensures housekeeping equipment is clean and reports any equipment needing repair to Housekeeping Supervisor and/or Maintenance.
6. Understand and follows Park Place Infection Prevention and Control policies and procedures and Universal Precautions in handling body fluids.
7. Identifies and reports risks to ensure the safety of Residents, visitors, and employees.
8. Responsible for cleaning job duties and signing off on completed scheduled work as per site procedures.
9. Assists Residents in keeping their rooms neat and tidy.
10. Checks and restocks housekeeping supplies. Reports to Housekeeping Supervisor when supplies are low

Dietary Aide
1. Performs the day-to-day food services activities related to the preparation and provision of meals to Residents. This includes less complex food preparation as requested and meal/nourishment service set-up and delivery.
2. Assists Residents as required.
3. Performs the day-to-day food services activities related to the ware-washing of supplies, and cleaning of the kitchen and all other dining areas in the Home including the food servery and dining rooms on each Resident Neighbourhood.
4. Keeps work areas clean, neat and tidy.
5. Assists in receiving, distribution and storage of supply deliveries.
6. Supports the equipment control system reporting all maintenance issues of food preparation and distribution equipment to the Cook.
7. Makes recommendations to improve efficiency and workflow in meal preparation and provision of meals to Residents.

Laundry Attendant
1. Collects soiled linens as required (including Residents’ personal laundry, bed and flat linens, kitchen linens), sorts, washes and dries following laundry equipment instructions and delivers folded and sorted clean linens back to source as per Home’s procedure.
2. Within the laundry room, follows ‘dirty’ and ‘clean’ protocols to meet all infection and prevention policy and procedure guidelines to prevent clean laundry contamination.
3. Ensures laundry equipment is clean and reports any equipment needing repair to the supervisor, Maintenance and/or the Site Leader.
4. Understands and uses Infection Prevention and Control Park Place procedures and Universal Precautions in handling body fluid.
5. Assists in the orientation and sharing information with new employees, students, and other members of the interdisciplinary team.
6. Assists Residents in preventing and/or finding lost laundry.

Other duties
1. Participates in continuous quality improvement and program evaluation activities, education sessions, team conferences, meetings, and committees.
2. Maintains a safe environment for Residents, significant others, and employees by adhering to established safety policies, standards and procedures including emergency procedures and infection control guidelines.
3. Reports unsafe conditions and malfunctioning equipment to the manager.
4. Performs other related duties as assigned.

HEALTH AND SAFETY RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Responsible to read, understand and comply with Park Place’s and provincially mandated Occupational Health and Safety policies and safe work practices
• Involved in all aspects of the Health and Safety Program including:
• Uses safe work procedures
• Promotes health and safety policy and awareness
• Makes safety suggestions
• Reads OHS minutes posted
• Responsible to take every reasonable precaution to protect the safety of Residents, self, other workers, and the public
• Reports any near miss, injury, accident, or equipment damage to supervisor immediately and completes required reports
• Corrects and/or reports unsafe conditions
• Sets a good example

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:
• Grade 8/ Grade 12
• Food service preparation experience preferred.
• facility cleaning experience an asset
• experience working in a commercial laundry an asset.
• equivalences may be considered

SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
• Ability to communicate effectively in English, both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to organize work.
• Ability to operate related equipment.
• Ability to work in teams collaboratively and communicate with others in a respectful manner.
• Physical ability to carry out the duties of the position.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
• Must, on a daily basis, be able to:
• stand, lift, bend, stoop, kneel, squat, climb ladders, use stairwells, operate self-powered equipment
• carry up to 9.1kg, push/pull object of 23kg
• look over both shoulders, use both arms at full length, works with arms above the shoulders
• use vibrating tools
• have full use of both hands
• work in hot environment
• walk 330ft/90m. or longer distances on even surfaces.