Job Title: General Services Assistant – Cure Children’s Hospital Jobs 2022
Organization: Cure Children’s Hospital of Uganda
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: General Services Supervisor
Cure Children’s Hospital of Uganda Profile
CURE Children’s Hospital of Uganda is a specialized children’s neurosurgery hospital in Uganda. It is a private hospital, owned and operated by CURE International. The hospital is also a teaching center in pediatric neurosurgery for Sub-Saharan Africa.
Job Summary
To provide housekeeping, laundry services and upkeep for spaces and buildings in the hospital by maintaining cleaning supplies, cleaning equipment, to ensure a sanitary and orderly environment for patients and staff.
Roles and Responsibilities:
Sweeping, scrubbing and mopping of assigned duty stations
- Dress self in full protective wear
- Sweep assigned duty stations
- Notify users of wet floor
- Scrub dirty surfaces
- Mop using approved ratios of detergent
Cleaning dusty surfaces
- Dump dust such items as blinds, furniture, file cabinets, and windowsills.
- Dump dust SPC plastic chairs
- Clear ceilings and corners of cobweb infestation
Disinfecting contaminated items and services using approved solutions
- Dress self in full protective wear
- Mix the solution using the approved guidelines
- Apply the solution to contaminated services.
- Disinfect washing area after washing linen for a particular procedure
- Disinfect clean linen tables
Providing laundry services for hospital items
- Pick dirty linen from the Operating rooms
- Sort according to degree of soiled and color spot clean those heavily soiled.
- Prepare a jik and detergent solution 1:8:3 (jik: water: detergent)
- Soak items for 30 minutes
- Wash, rinse and hang washed linen for drying.
- Pressing and folding linen
- Replenishing various locations with clean and pressed linen
Ensuring that waste is disposed of appropriately
- Empty full garbage bins
- Take garbage to incinerator
- Disinfect used bins
- Put bucket liners
Infection prevention and control
- Effective hand hygiene done whenever change of station
- Doing work according to set policies and procedures.
- Being aware of infection prevention and control measures and following them at all times
- Attend all departmental training on infection prevention and control to keep up to date knowledge.
Appropriate usage and storage of cleaning equipment.
- Mop heads are disinfected, hung to dry at the end of shift.
- Dusting and wipping towels disinfected and hung to dry at the end of shift.
- All cleaning equipment to be kept in a lock and key room.
Occupational Health & Safety
- All staff are expected to work in such a way that does not cause injury to themselves, other staff members or customers.
- Following & complying with H&S policies, processes & applying them to their own work activities, including using/wearing Personal Protective Equipment as required.
- Participating in activities directed at preventing harm & promoting well-being in the workplace Identifying, reporting & self-managing hazards where appropriate.
- Early and accurate reporting of incidents at work and raising issues of concern when identified.
Spiritual Ministry
- Participates in the hospital’s Spiritual Ministry programs.
Other duties
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Other official duties that may be assigned by Supervisor.
Minimum Qualifications:
- A completed certificate in Hotel Management and Institutional Catering preferred
- Experience in kitchen, laundry and cleaning functions in a recognized hotel, guest house or hospital
- Strong understanding of the need for an appropriately clean environment for patients
- Ability to learn how to sterilize material, an area or room
- Ability to establish priorities and proceed with objectives with minimum supervision
- Must possess good communication and interpersonal skills
- Must be able to speak, read and write English
How To Apply for Cure Children’s Hospital Jobs 2022
All interested and suitably qualified candidates should submit their applications through the link below.
Deadline: Open until filled
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