Housekeeping Aide

**Requisition ID**: 366297
**Competition #**: SS-24-959
**Position Control #**: 115-71150-H263-02 & 115-81910-D231-02
**Posting End Date**: Open Until Filled
**City**: Carman
**Site**: Southern Health-Santé Sud
**Work Location**: Lorne Memorial Hospital
**Department / Unit**: Environmental Services / Nutrition & Food Services
**Job Stream**: Non-Clinical
**Union**: CUPE
**Anticipated Start Date**: As mutually agreed
**FTE**: 0.83
**Anticipated Shift**: Days/Evenings/Weekends
**Daily Hours Worked**: Up to 7.75 hour shifts
**Wage Rate**: As per CUPE Community Collective Agreement
Shared Health leads the planning and coordinates the integration of patient-centred clinical and preventive health services across Manitoba. The organization also delivers some province-wide health services and supports centralized administrative and business functions for Manitoba health organizations.
**Position Summary**:
Under the direction of the Site Coordinator or Supervisor - Nutrition and Food Services, Cook II or Cook I, the Dietary Aide is responsible for the completion of assigned tasks in relation to the safe preparation, serving, and distribution of nutritious meals to clients. The incumbent is responsible for serving meals to the staff and visitors, performing cashier duties, following proper sanitation safety guidelines. This is in addition to following established standards, departmental/regional policies and procedures and government regulations and legislation.
Under the direction of the Manager - Environmental Services, the Housekeeping Aide maintains assigned areas in a clean, sanitary, safe and orderly manner to ensure that the highest degree of cleanliness. The incumbent also performs routine housekeeping tasks in all areas of the facility with the primary duties being general cleaning.
The incumbent exercises the appropriate level of initiative and independent judgment in determining work priorities, work methods to be employed and action to be taken on unusual matters. The position functions in a manner that is consistent with the mission, vision and values; and the policies of Southern Health-Santé Sud.

**Qualifications**:

- Minimum Grade 10 education
- Completion of a Dietary Aide certificate
- Current Food Handler Training Certificate Level 1 or equivalent Food Sanitation course or be willing to acquire a Food Handler

Training Certificate in the first six (6) months of employment
- Knowledge and understanding of all therapeutic and texture modified diets
- Knowledge and understanding of sanitary food handling
- Six (6) months previous experience working in food handling and/or health care food services environment
- Experience and knowledge of good housekeeping practices
- Previous experience using housekeeping equipment
- Previous experience completing assigned housekeeping tasks
- Other suitable combinations of education and experience may be considered
- Demonstrated ability to lift items up to 1-5 kg (2.2-11 lbs) constantly, 6-11kg (13.2 - 24 lbs) occasionally and 23 kg (50 lbs)

seldomly
- Demonstrated competency in cash management
- Given the cultural diversity of our region, the ability to respect and promote a culturally diverse population is required
- Proficiency of both official languages is essential for target and designated bilingual positions
- Demonstrated ability to respect confidentiality including paper, electronic formats and other mediums
- Demonstrated ability to meet the physical and mental demands of the job
- Good work and attendance record

**Conditions of Employment**:

- Completes and maintains a satisfactory Criminal Record Check, Vulnerable Sector Search, Adult Abuse Registry Check and Child Abuse Registry Check, as appropriate.
- All Health Care workers are required to be immunized as a condition of employment in accordance with Southern Health-Santé Sud policy.

Please note that an employee is not permitted to hold two or more positions in Shared Health that combine to equal more than 1.0 FTE.
Shared Health values and supports employment equity and workplace diversity and encourages all qualified individuals to apply. We thank all applicants but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.