Laundry Aide

5 months ago

ChathamKent, Canada Copper Terrace LTC Facility Full time

The Laundry Aide is accountable to the Environmental Supervisor to ensure efficient laundry services to meet resident needs.

Background/Qualifications:
Must be able to communicate in English including written documentation. Has an acceptable standard of behaviour and appearance. Must have ability to work with mínimal supervision. Must have ability to follow written routines. Must enjoy working in a long term care environment. Laundry experience in an organizational setting an asset.

CORE COMPETENCIES:
Resident-Centred Care Definition:
Ensures and maintains resident satisfaction with the product and services offered by the organization.

Communication Definition:
Clearly conveys information to a variety of audiences using the tools necessary, engaging the audience to ensure the message is delivered and understood, creating a positive first impression with confidence and respect.

Energy & Stress Definition:
Consistently demonstrates high level of drive, infectious to the surrounding environment, and preserves effectiveness, drive and focus for extended periods of time, while maintaining composure in highly stressful or adverse situations.

Team Work Definition:
Promotes cooperation and commitment with the team towards the attainment of common goals. Gets others excited about and committed to furthering the organization’s objectives. Enables cooperative and productive group interactions.

Quality Orientation Definition:
Completes tasks keeping in mind all aspects involved regardless of magnitude, checks tasks and processes while having attention to details. Follows occupational health and safety regulations as per homes policies and procedure.

Problem Solving Definition:
Resolves difficult and complicated challenges.

Time Management/Accountability/ Dependability Definition:
takes personal responsibility for the quality and timeliness of work and achieves results with no oversight, including following guidelines, standards regulations and principles. Maximizes time in order to accomplish tasks.

Operating Equipment Definition:
uses tools, machines and vehicles to transport or create products or services.

Ethics and Integrity Definition:
earns the trust and respect of others through consistent honesty and professionalism in all interactions. Diplomatically handles challenging or tense interpersonal situations

Key Responsibilities:

- Follows the written job description and job routines as established by the Home.
- Respects and promotes the Resident Bill of Rights. Respects resident privacy.
- Collects, transports, sorts, processes and delivers linen and residents= personal linen on a timely basis. Ensures proper use and storage of chemicals in accordance with WHMIS standards.
- Labels and mends residents’ personal clothing, ensuring residents’ dignity.
- Maintains a clean, sanitary environment.
- Participates in the facility Infection Control Program.
- Identifies residents= need for clothing purchase or repair as applicable.
- Operates machinery and equipment in a safe manner.
- Reports the need for additional or replacement linen when required.
- Understands all aspects of Health and Safety. Reports any hazard or hazardous situation according to established health and safety policy and procedures.
- Ensures that all actions are resident focused. Adapts the laundry schedule to meet the needs of residents. -Participates in the home-wide Quality Management Program.
- Assists residents during mealtimes. This includes, but is not limited to, set-up, prompting, assisting with feeding the resident, portering and meal supervision.
- Porter residents throughout the home, as needed.
- Assist in required duties in the Housekeeping department to meet the homes needs as required.
- Assist with resident lifts, transfers and bed entrapment.
- Perform other related duties as required.

Working Conditions:

- Prolonged standing and walking.
- Lifting and moving of equipment and supplies.
- Noisy, hot and humid work conditions.
- Repetitive work
- repeated bending, twisting and stooping.
- Some stress resulting in dealing with time pressures.

Physical Requirements:

- Lifting alone, maximum 50 lbs. (5-25 lbs. usual) as an essential job function.
- Lifting with assistance, maximum 160 lbs. (100-150 lbs. Usual) as an essential job function.
- Pushing/pulling, using wheeled equipment such as carts, trolleys, with contents that weigh a maximum 100 lbs, (20-50 lbs. usual) as an essential job function.
- Stretching/reaching on a regular frequency throughout the shift as an essential job function.
- Walking, with possibly some upstairs walking, to a maximum of 3 hours, (1-2 hours usual) as an essential job function.
- Standing for lengths of time up to 3 hours maximum (1-2 hours usual) as an essential job function.
- Bending/stooping on a regular frequency throughout the shift, as a non-essential job function.
- Carry/transport objects of various sizes, up to a maximum of 25 lbs. (5-15 lbs. usual).
- Must be able to pe

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