Job Overview

Employment Type:

Full time

Shift:

Day Shift

Description:

SCOPE OF SERVICE/CUSTOMER:

Performs those functions necessary to provide laundry and linen service to user departments throughout the hospital and outside clients. Operates moving machinery, sorts, folds, and assembles clean linen on carts. Patients range in age from adolescent through older adults.

Customers include: co-workers, patients/families, visitors, hospital staff, physicians, volunteers, and outside clients.

Laundry - Full Time - Days: 6:00 am - 2:30pm, with every 3rd weekend rotation.

Benefits start day 1 of hire.

Starting Pay $15.00

Performs necessary to provide laundry and linen service to user departments throughout the hospital and outside clients. Operates moving machinery, sorts, folds, and assembles clean linen on carts. Patients range in age from adolescent through older adults.

Customers include: co-workers, patients/families, visitors, hospital staff, physicians, volunteers, and outside clients.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
1. Adheres to the principles of caring and expected behaviors outlined in Mercy Medical Center's Model of Caring and Trinity Health's Code of Conduct, fostering a climate where all customers are treated in a manner consistent with Mercy Medical Center's Mission and Values.
2. Maintains a working knowledge of applicable Federal, State and local laws and regulations, Trinity Health’s Organizational Integrity Program, Standards of Conduct, as well as other policies and procedures in order to ensure adherence in a manner that reflects honest, ethical and professional behavior.
3. Distributes clean linen to the organization and to outside clients by filling telephone requests, department requisitions or exchange carts.
4. Restocks exchange carts, stocks incoming clean linen in correct location rotating stock.
5. Works on processing floor.
6. Performs routine cleaning functions to maintain a clean environment by disinfecting carts and replacing soiled or torn cart covers.
7. Maintains par levels on disaster carts and delivers to Emergency, Central Sterilization, and Ambulatory during CD200.
8. Takes an active role in improving the quality of service provided by department.
9. Undergo annual training through Healthstreams concerning the appropriate handling and security of IV Solutions and medications.

SKILLS AND ABILITIES REQUIRED:
1. Maintains a professional, collaborative work environment so as to foster a positive public image for Mercy Medical Center.
2. Knows and adheres to all laws and regulations pertaining to patient health, safety and medical information (i.e. HIPAA, Stark, etc.).
3. Must be able to take orders over the telephone.
4. Must have ability to operate weight scale, perform math problems and be clerically accurate.
5. Must have physical ability to stock shelves on carts and in closets.
6. Must have physical ability to push/pull carts weighing up to 750 lbs.
7. Must be able to follow written and oral directions.
8. Must be able to operate laundry equipment:
• Small piece folders
• Feeder/spreader/ironer/folder
• Hot head press
• Heat seal machines.
9. Must be able to feed and catch clean linen at an acceptable rate.
10. Must be able to work independently, exercising good decision making skills.

WORKING CONDITIONS AND PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
1. Works inside.
2. Work area is noisy.
3. Requires frequent (40-60% of work time) bending, stooping, reaching, crouching, kneeling, pushing, and pulling heavy loads.
4. Requires occasional (6-10%) carry/lift up to 50 lbs.
5. Requires frequent (50-75%) use of hands for repetitive action such as simple and firm grasping.
6. Requires working around moving machinery.
7. Must be able to see at a near visual acuity level.
8. Must be able to speak and hear speech.
9. Must adhere to applicable organizational requirements on an annual basis for Employee Health Directives.

MINIMUM EDUCATION, LICENSURE, CERTIFICATION, AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
1. High school graduate or equivalent preferred.
2. On-the-job training is available.
3. Child and Dependent Adult Abuse Mandatory Reporter Training is required within 6 months of hire and every 3 years thereafter.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Trinity Health is a family of 115,000 colleagues and nearly 26,000 physicians and clinicians across 25 states. Because we serve diverse populations, our colleagues are trained to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes. We also recognize that each of us has a different way of thinking and perceiving our world and that these differences often lead to innovative solutions.

Our dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention, and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity.