Laundry Aide

Park Place Seniors Living

  • Medicine Hat, AB
  • Permanent
  • Part-time
  • 1 month ago
  • Apply easily
JOB SUMMARY: As a valued interdisciplinary team member the Laundry Aide, under the direction of the Support Services Supervisor, collects, sorts, launders and returns laundry to source in the Home including resident and site laundry, following infection prevention and control guidelines and laundry equipment procedure. Treats residents with dignity and demonstrates an attitude of caring. The Laundry Aide ensures a commitment to resident safety and to our “culture of safety” as per PPSL Strategic Directions.
TYPICAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: 1. Collects soiled linens as required (including residents’ personal laundry, bed and flat linens, kitchen linens), sorts, washes and dries following laundry equipment instructions and delivers folded and sorted clean linens back to source as per Home’s procedure.
2. Within the laundry room, follows ‘dirty’ and ‘clean’ protocols to meet all infection and prevention policy and procedure guidelines to prevent clean laundry contamination.
3. Ensures laundry equipment is clean and reports any equipment needing repair to the supervisor, Maintenance and/or the Site Leader.
4. Understands and uses Infection Prevention and Control PPSL procedures and Universal Precautions in handling body fluid.
5. Assists in the orientation and sharing information with new staff, students, and other members of the interdisciplinary team.
6. Participates in continuous quality improvement and program evaluation activities, education sessions, team conferences, meetings and committees.
7. Assists residents in preventing and/or finding lost laundry.Powered by JazzHR

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