We are looking for an organized Housekeeping Operative to join our passionate team at UPMC in Ireland in Waterford.
Growing your career as a Full Time Housekeeping Operative is an amazing opportunity to develop relevant skills.
If you are strong in cooperation, people management and have the right experience for the job, then apply for the position of Housekeeping Operative at UPMC in Ireland today!
Duties & Responsibilities
- Cleaning of Clinical & Non-Clinical department
- Waste removals and management
- Follow all SOPs and policies
- To ensure all Waste, both Domestic and Clinical, is removed, processed, and stored using the standard agreed under the Waste Management Policy.
- To liaise with Waste Removal Operators when onsite to ensure accuracy of collections and removals.
- To ensure all equipment used is kept clean and in good condition and stored in the allocated areas. To ensure all work areas are kept clean.
- To operate machinery supplied for use in Waste Management and Cleaning and ensure all safety measures are met.
- Using the scrubber dryer and Buffer for maintained the floor.
- To remove waste from the area to be cleaned to the designated collection area and reline waste bin. ·
- To remove linen, and scrubs as appropriate from the area to be cleaned to the designated collection area.
- Wash walls/ledges/ doors/windows & ledges/sanitary ware, furniture, fixtures & fittings/phones and equipment as per specification. · Using appropriate equipment damp dust high level surfaces
- Dust control/vacuum and/or mop floors and stairs as per specification. · Use machinery equipment: scrubber dry & buff to maintain the floors ·
- Restock disposables and consumables as required.
- Carrie out Deep cleans in all departments as per request
- Ensure all cleaning equipment its cleaned and disinfected daily ·
- Ensure all cleaning cloths & mopheads are washed and dried after every use ·
- Ensure all checklists are signed off as required and returned to the manager/supervisor. ·
- Keep clinical bin stores in clean and well-maintained condition. · Greet and engage with patients.
- Health and Safety: · To uphold UPMC Hospital’s policy requirements in relation to Fire, Infection Control and Health and Safety at Work regulations and to attend updates.
Qualifications & Experience
- Previous Housekeeping experience in a Healthcare setting is desirable but not essential. Full training is provided.
- Good interpersonal skills.
- The provision of customer service is paramount and customer care is a key element of the role.
- High level attention to detail, efficiency, and accuracy in all duties.
- Good oral and written English
About UPMC
A $24 billion healthcare provider and insurer, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based UPMC is inventing new models of patient-centred, cost-effective, accountable care. Working in close collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences, UPMC shares its clinical, managerial and technological skills worldwide through its innovation and commercialisation arm, UPMC Enterprises, and through UPMC International.
Providing high-quality healthcare in the South East since 2006, UPMC’s operations in Ireland now include UPMC Whitfield Hospital in Waterford, UPMC Kildare Hospital in Clane and UPMC Aut Even Hospital in Kilkenny. Outpatient care is available at the UPMC Carlow Outreach Centre, UPMC Hillman Cancer Centre radiotherapy locations at UPMC Whitfield and in Cork, the UPMC Sports Medicine Clinic at SETU Arena, Waterford, TUS Moylish Campus, Limerick, TUS Thurles Campus, Tipperary, and the UPMC Concussion Network. We also have a Global Technology Operation Centre, based in Kilkenny. UPMC is the Official Healthcare Partner of the GAA and GPA.
Benefits of working as a Housekeeping Operative in Waterford:
● Excellent benefits
● Advancement opportunities
● Competitive salary