Laundry Services Technician - Ephrata Community Hospital - Day

Schedule 

Full Time: 16 Hours/Biweekly

Hours: 4 hours; One Day per Week 

Every Other Saturday:  5:00am - 1:30pm 

Rotating Holidays, Required 

General Summary

Collects soiled laundry and distributes clean linens to user departments. Maintains stock levels on nursing floors. Follows established procedures.

Duties and Responsibilities

Essential Functions:

• Collects soiled laundry from various areas of the hospital and delivers to soiled linen rooms in the linen services area.
• Answers telephone, takes messages and/or linen orders by telephone or fax. Provides accurate information or forwards callers to appropriate resource.
• Examines articles for stains, tears or other imperfections.
• Counts and stacks linens for distribution or places them in supply storage. Reports linen supply shortages to linen manager.
• Delivers linens/scrubs to user departments according to preestablished par levels and schedules. Distributes emergency supplies as needed.
• Makes supply packs for departments and puts linen stacks in carts for distribution on/off campus.
• Cleans equipment and work area at end of work day. Alerts supervisor to malfunctioning/defective equipment, and replacement of worn out wearing apparel.
• Enters and/or retrieves data from established computer files. Enters daily data in the Linen Helper computer program.
• Washes, dries, folds and delivers patient room curtains on a daily basis or when any soiled linen is delivered to wash room.
• Assists HCSC delivery driver with loading and unloading of clean and soiled linen carts.