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Shift: Days Part Time 16 hrs./week- Covering weekend, holidays and time off.

The carts you will be transporting (clean & soiled) are about 600 lbs on average, 2 carts at a time.  Loading the linen exchange carts requires lifting, bending and pulling 20 to 40 Lbs. of linen and at some of our hospitals have almost 40 carts to load daily. The position requires walking for long periods of time throughout the day.

GENERAL SUMMARY: Under the supervision of the Supervisor of Materials Management, responsible for supply of clean linen throughout the hospital.

Responsibilities:

+ Inspects, sorts, and folds clean linen as it is delivered, stores it on appropriate carts and delivers full sized linen carts to assigned Nursing units.

+ Handles all phone requests for linen from the Nursing units in a timely manner.

+ Deliveries clean linen to Nursing units in the afternoon as needed each day.

+ Prepares, checks, sorts, and delivers clean linen orders to ancillary departments.

+ Documents daily pars on departmental par sheets.| Assists with the linen inventory.

+ Completes mandatory competencies annually.

+ Prepares new linen orders as needed.

+ Demonstrates in all duties and responsibilities a warm, humanistic attitude toward patients, their families, visitors and associates of the hospital.

+ Participates in a collaborative identification and reporting of patient safety issues.

+ May enter daily linen data into Linen Helper Program as needed.

+ Performs other duties as assigned.

+ Specific Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

+ Must be able to read, write, and follow written an oral instructions.

+ Must have knowledge of various linen items used.

+ Must be able to lift a minimum of 40lbs. and move a considerable amount of linen.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

+ High School graduate or equivalent is required.

Additional Information

+ Organization: Henry Ford Macomb - Oakland Hospitals

+ Department: Laundry 001

+ Shift: Day Job

+ Union Code: MIDET SJ OPEIU Local 459

Additional Details

This posting represents the major duties, responsibilities, and authorities of this job, and is not intended to be a complete list of all tasks and functions. It should be understood, therefore, that incumbents may be asked to perform job-related duties beyond those explicitly described above.

Overview

Henry Ford Health partners with millions of people on their health journey, across Michigan and around the world. We offer a full continuum of services – from primary and preventative care to complex and specialty care, health insurance, a full suite of home health offerings, virtual care, pharmacy, eye care and other health care retail. With former Ascension southeast Michigan and Flint region locations now part of our team, Henry Ford’s care is available in 13 hospitals and hundreds of ambulatory care locations. Based in Detroit, Henry Ford is one of the nation’s most respected academic medical centers and is leading the Future of Health: Detroit, a $3 billion investment anchored by a reimagined Henry Ford academic healthcare campus. Learn more at henryford.com/careers .

Benefits

The health and overall well-being of our team members is our priority. That’s why we offer support in the various components of our team’s well-being: physical, emotional, social, financial and spiritual. Our Total Rewards program includes competitive health plan options, with three consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs), a PPO plan and an HMO plan. Our team members enjoy a number of additional benefits, ranging from dental and eye care coverage to tuition assistance, family forming benefits, discounts to dozens of businesses and more. Employees classified as contingent status are not eligible for benefits.

Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer

Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer Henry Ford Health is

committed to the hiring, advancement and fair treatment of all individuals without regard to

race, color, creed, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, size, height,

weight, marital status, family status, gender identity, sexual orientation, and genetic information,

or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal and state laws.