Environmental Services Custodian, Rideaucrest Home, Regular Part-Time

The Details

Job Title: The Environmental Services Custodian ensures that all areas of the Home are kept clean, emphasizing infection control practices at all times. This position also ensures that resident laundry and in-house linens are cleaned and cared for in a conscientious and timely manner while operating all laundry and clothing care machinery safely and efficiently.

Rideaucrest Home provides high-quality, compassionate long-term care for Kingston residents. Our team works together to create a safe, supportive environment where residents feel valued and cared for every day. We keep Rideaucrest Home clean, safe, and welcoming. Our team manages housekeeping and sanitation to maintain a healthy environment for residents and staff.

What you’ll do…

• Clean residents’ rooms as assigned, ensuring the highest standards of cleanliness are met at all times
• Clean and sanitize/disinfect resident and public bathrooms thoroughly
• Clean hallways, offices, dining room, serving area, washrooms and tub room, and all assigned areas of the facility, removing soiled furniture for cleaning
• Daily delivery of incontinent supplies to each floor
• Room preparation for new residents, including stripping and waxing the floor, moving furniture, etc.
• Prepare conference room set ups
• Ensure full compliance with Ministry of Health and Long Term Care Act & Regulations, as well as all current infection control procedures
• Use initiative to identify cleaning needs and cleaning improvement opportunities
• Actively promote and follow safe work practices and ensure accident prevention and health and safety responsibilities are fully met by self and others
• Collect and sort residents’ personal items and linens
• Safely operate laundry equipment to wash and dry resident laundry and in-house linens in compliance with all department and infection control procedures
• Pick up new resident personal items requiring labelling. Operate clothes labelling machine for imprinting residents’ names
• Locate missing clothing, while being courteous of the needs of the resident and family
• Complete linen audits as required
• Maintain clean, tidy and well‑organized work areas, conducting regular safety inspections of equipment and reporting all problems or potential hazards to the Supervisor
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Three (3) months of related work experience with preference given to experience in a health care setting
• Must demonstrate corporate values of Belonging, Collaboration, Accountability, and Innovation
• Able to perform the essential duties of the job such as push carts, climb ladders, move furniture, and operate cleaning equipment
• Demonstrated ability to interact with seniors in a caring and respectful manner
• Able to maintain confidentiality
• Commitment to promoting and following safe work practices
• Ability to consistently focus on health and safety challenges in dealing with exposure to body wastes/fluids, chemicals/cleaning substances, dust/dirt and noise
• Able to work independently and as an effective team member in a cooperative manner with all members of staff, families, residents, volunteers and outside agencies
• Demonstrated communication, organizational, prioritization and time management skills as required to complete cleaning routines
• Basic mathematics skills
• Committed to ongoing learning and development
• Proof of recent screening for Tuberculosis (TB)
• Proof of immunity to communicable diseases
• Evidence of a TB test and annual flu shot is required
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a satisfactory criminal records check, including Vulnerable Sector

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