Job Description

**Job Summary** The Laundry Worker is responsible for ensuring that clean linen is properly stocked and delivered to hospital floors in a timely manner. This includes distributing, collecting, and managing all linen within the facility, ensuring that linens are handled, cleaned, and stored according to hospital standards. The Laundry Worker plays a key role in supporting the hospital's operational efficiency by maintaining a steady supply of clean linens for patient care and hospital functions. **Essential Functions** + Schedules and assigns linen deliveries throughout the hospital. + Stocks linen carts to be delivered to various hospital departments and floors, ensuring timely delivery to meet the needs of patients, medical staff, and hospital operations. + Collects soiled linens from patient rooms, departments, and common areas, following proper infection control protocols and ensuring that linen is securely transported. + Monitors linen inventory levels, report shortages, and assist in maintaining adequate stock levels of clean linens, towels, scrubs, and other hospital fabrics. + Ensures that clean linen is delivered in a timely manner to meet hospital demand, with special attention to emergency or urgent requests. + Inspects linens for cleanliness, damage, and stains before delivery, ensuring that only acceptable items are distributed to the hospital floors. + Maintains accurate records of linen usage, collection, and distribution, as required by hospital policy. + Follows safety protocols and infection control guidelines in handling soiled and clean linens. Ensure that laundry equipment and work areas are maintained in a clean and safe condition. + Assists in Linen Rotation: Help with rotating and organizing linen stock to ensure that older linens are used first and that linens are properly stored in a clean and accessible manner. + Performs other duties as assigned. + Complies with all policies and standards. **Qualifications** + 0-2 years experience in laundry or housekeeping in a hospital or healthcare setting preferred **Knowledge, Skills and Abilities** + Strong organizational skills and attention to detail. + Ability to follow instructions and work independently with minimal supervision. + Ability to lift and carry heavy loads of linens (up to 50 pounds). + Knowledge of infection control and safety practices related to handling hospital linen. + Ability to operate laundry machines and equipment. + Good communication skills and ability to interact professionally with hospital staff. Equal Employment Opportunity This organization does not discriminate in any way to deprive any person of employment opportunities or otherwise adversely affect the status of any employee because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, citizenship, veteran status, or military or uniformed services, in accordance with all applicable governmental laws and regulations. In addition, the facility complies with all applicable federal, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. This applies to all terms and conditions of employment including, but not limited to: hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. If you are an applicant with a mental or physical disability who needs a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process, contact the director of Human Resources at the facility to which you are seeking employment; Simply go to to obtain the main telephone number of the facility and ask for Human Resources.

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