Job Description
The Medical Housekeeper performs essential cleaning, disinfecting, and sanitizing duties throughout the Alaska Native Medical Center campus. This vital role directly supports patient recovery and staff safety by ensuring hospital rooms, outpatient facilities, and common areas remain hygienic, safe, and well-presented.
Join a team that works with your schedule—we have multiple shifts available, with a variety of part-time and full-time opportunities to fit your availability while keeping our operations running strong!
Responsibilities
- Perform daily cleaning and disinfection of assigned areas, including patient rooms, restrooms, hallways, offices, construction areas and public spaces.
- Use and maintain cleaning tools, carts, and PPE according to safety standards.
- Safely handle and transport regulated medical waste and soiled linen.
- Follow hospital protocols for high-touch surfaces, waste removal, and restocking supplies.
- Clean and disinfect all surfaces in the patient care area per hospital guidance.
- Clean and sanitize the patient bathroom, ensuring all surfaces are dry to prevent slip hazards.
- Disinfect patient room floors using approved methods and remove soil and debris.
- Replenish room supplies and replace disposable items per stocking standards.
- Support terminal cleaning for discharged patients, including contact precaution rooms.
- Document completed tasks using checklists and/or digital logs.
- Distribute linen to clinical departments and document accurately.
- Perform post-cleaning validation checks before declaring the room ready for the next patient.
- Respond to calls for service requests professionally and efficiently.
- Demonstrate commitment to safety, teamwork, and service excellence.
- Participate in required department and organizational trainings.
- Follow infection prevention and department procedures.
- Restock EVS janitor closets and supply carts as needed.
- Assist with spill response, and minor chemical handling.
- Other duties that are pertinent to the unit's success also may be assigned.
Qualifications
- High school diploma or GED equivalent.
- At least 6 months’ experience that demonstrates a working knowledge of cleaning equipment and general cleaning processes.
- The ability to work rotating shifts, weekends, callouts, etc.
- Ability to read, write and speak English.
- Candidates will be screened for tuberculosis exposure and infection as shown by a negative PPD, negative IGRA, or in cases where the PPD or IGRA is positive, a baseline chest x-ray, is required; and
- Candidates must be immune/vaccinated for Hepatitis B or has a signed declination for Hepatitis B, and either is immune from or has been immunized against:
- (i) influenza (annually and proof of vaccination or signed declination on file)
- (ii) rubella,
- (iii) rubeolla,
- (iv) mumps,
- (v) varicella chicken pox
Background Requirement:Level One:An individual is ineligible to work in any position that has Regular Contact With or Control over Children, Dependent Adults or Vulnerable Persons if the individual has been convicted of:
- One or more felonies and/or two or more misdemeanors of Crimes Against Persons and/or Crimes of Violence.
- Any Crime against a Child, Dependent Adult or Vulnerable person, regardless of its classification as a felony, misdemeanor, or other type of offense.
- Any Sex Crime, regardless of its classification as a felony, misdemeanor, or other type of offense.
- Murder.
Preferred Requirements
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- A valid Driver’s License and an acceptable driving record for the past three (3) years to be eligible under NMS’ vehicle insurance policy.
Working Conditions and Physical Requirements
Weather: Indoor/Outdoor (Occasional exposure to moderate weather conditions)
Noise level: Moderate
Office conditions: Pace of work environment: Medium, Customer Interaction: High
Description of environment: Hospital Setting
Physical requirements: Must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Frequently required to walk and stand. Occasionally required to lift. Rarely required to pull and push.
Travel: None
Competencies
NMS Core Values
Safety guides our behavior.
Honesty and integrity govern our activities.
Commitments made will be fulfilled.
All individuals are treated with dignity and respect.
The environment will be protected and sustained.
