Housekeeping Aide - Full time
Working Title: Housekeeping Aide - Full time
Employment Status: Full-Time
Starting Hourly Rate: 21.50
Address: 2179 Elmira Dr Ottawa ON K2C 3S1
New Hire Schedule: Day shift, Monday to Friday, weekends as per rotation
Compass One Healthcare is a premier healthcare company with 46,000 engaged team members who are focused on delivering quality, value, and exceptional patient experience through specialized services and protocols in more than 1,650 hospital and health system locations in 48 states. Through a combined three-quarters of a century of healthcare experience, Compass One offers seven customer-focused core services: Food and Nutrition, Environmental, Patient Transportation, Laundry & Linen, Healthcare Technology Solutions (Clinical Engineering), Facilities Management, and Ambulatory Services. Compass One is committed to the growth and development of its associates, and its unique Positive ImpressionsTM program features a team of 100-plus Patient Experience Managers dedicated to driving a better experience in each of our hospitals. Also, Compass One's exclusive partnership with Press Ganey leverages rich analytics to better understand how to improve experiences for patients, family, customers, caregivers, and the community.
Job Summary
How you will make an impact:
You will be responsible for performing light cleaning duties that maintain the establishment in a clean and orderly manner.
As a Housekeeper, you will:
- Clean and disinfect areas and items such as surgical procedure areas, washrooms, operating room tables, stretchers, vents, interior windows, walls, glass, doors, and mirrors
- Strip, wash and make beds; collect and fold linen
- Damp mop hard floors and auto scrub as needed
- Check all primary areas, lobbies, stairwells, elevators/escalators, and mezzanines and clean as required
- Vacuum carpeted areas and complete carpet extraction as needed
- Remove all garbage from resident/patient rooms and common areas
- Maintain confidentiality of all resident and personnel information
- Maintain a safe environment at all times (e.g. use of wet floor signs)
- Perform duties according to health and safety guidelines
- Report all injuries and hazards to the supervisor immediately
- Responding to emergency cleanups as required
About you:
- Previous housekeeping experience, preferably in healthcare, hotel or commercial cleaning, is an asset.
- Strong time management and organizational skills to be able to manage heavy workload.
- Good command of English language, both verbal and written.
- Ability to follow written and verbal instructions.
- Physical ability to perform all aspects of the job, including requirements to lift up to 20 pounds
Compass Group Canada is committed to nurturing a diverse workforce representative of the communities within which we operate. We encourage and are pleased to consider all qualified candidates, without regard to race, colour, citizenship, religion, sex, marital / family status, sexual orientation, gender identity, aboriginal status, age, disability or persons who may require an accommodation, to apply.
For accommodation requests during the hiring process, please contact PeopleHub@compass-canada.com for further information.