Housekeeping Staff at D.A.D.C.H - Kalwa

Job Overview

Job Description

Position Summary:-
The Housekeeping Staff is responsible for maintaining the highest standards of cleanliness, hygiene, and sanitization across the hospital premises. This role ensures patient safety, infection control compliance, and a clean healing environment in line with hospital quality standards.

Key Responsibilities:-
1. Cleaning & Sanitization
- Maintain cleanliness of wards, OPDs, ICUs, OTs, washrooms, corridors, staircases, and public areas.
- Perform dusting, mopping, scrubbing, polishing, and deep cleaning as per daily and schedule-based checklists.
- Ensure proper sanitization of high-touch areas bed rails, doorknobs, nurse stations, lift buttons, switches etc.
- Replace bed sheets, pillow covers, blankets, and manage laundry dispatch/receipt.

2. Hospital Infection Control Compliance
- Follow infection control and biomedical waste segregation protocols (Red/Yellow/Blue/White bins).
- Assist in terminal cleaning of isolation rooms, OTs, ICU beds, and discharge rooms.
- Maintain use of PPE kits, gloves, masks as per hygiene standard.
- Support fumigation, UV sanitization, deep cleaning activities as required.

3. Patient-Area Maintenance
- Ensure patient rooms are clean, odor-free, and well-maintained.
- Refill hand wash, sanitizer, tissue rolls, toilet supplies regularly.
- Assist in shifting patients’ belongings with dignity and care.

4. Waste Management
- Collect, segregate and transport biomedical and general waste to designated storage areas.
- Ensure timely disposal of garbage and upkeep of waste collection points.

5. Stock & Utility Handling
- Responsible for cleaning supplies/chemical usage and stock reporting.
- Operate housekeeping tools & machines vacuum cleaner, scrubber, wringer trolley etc.
- Report maintenance issues (leakage, damages, equipment failure) to Supervisor immediately.

Skills & Attributes:-
- Understanding of hospital hygiene & sanitation practices.
- Ability to read/understand basic instructions.
- Physical stamina, disciplined work ethics, time management.
- Positive attitude, polite behaviour with patients, staff & attendants.
- Willingness to work in rotation shifts.

Qualification & Experience:-
- Minimum 8th/10th Pass.
- Prior experience in hospital housekeeping preferred.
- Training in infection control & waste management will be an added advantage.