- Clean and decontaminate laboratory, theatre, x-ray, accident and emergency room, stores, wards, and offices in accordance with universal health and safety standards. 2. Performs routine cleaning of patient rooms, nursing units, offices, clinical areas, waiting areas, lobbies, lounges, restrooms, and corridors maintaining set quality standards at all times.
3. Disinfect all sinks, face basins, baths, showers, toilets, and cupboards using approved hospital grade cleaning supplies and follow infection prevention control guidelines.
4. Complete cleaning logs and established checklists daily.
5. Ensure that hand soap, sanitizer, paper towels, and toilet paper are replenished at all times.
6. Clean and wipe windows, countertops, doors, door handles, and high-touch areas in the various departments.
7. Dispose of waste in color-coded waste bins, clean waste baskets, and replace liners throughout the organization.
8. Reports on equipment or facilities such as floors and walls of hospital wards, rusty beds, leaks, broken toilets that require maintenance to the Housekeeping Supervisor.
9. Dust/wipe and clean desks, telephones, chairs, and windows in administration offices, cashiers and reception areas.
10. Decontaminate all beds, lockers, and furniture in the wards, private rooms, isolation rooms, accident and emergency.
11. Clean medication refrigerators on schedule or as directed.
12. Mop floors daily and as necessary in adherence to universal health and safety standards
13. Ensures that standard precautions of safety in a health facility are strictly complied with by making sure that approved hospital-grade cleaning chemicals are used as prescribed
14. Following safety protocols and guidelines, including wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) as required.
15. Appropriately dispose of medical waste products like syringes, hand gloves, face masks, etc., in appropriate labeled waste receptacles following established standards and protocols.
16. Remove and replace curtains and bed screens on the ward every week and after the patient is discharged and if soiled in keeping with infection prevention and control guidelines.
17. Remove and replace curtains and bed screens in the accident and emergency department as scheduled every month, or as the need arises and after a death.
18. Remove soiled linen from the Wards, Dialysis, Accident and Emergency, and other areas of the health facility to the laundry to be laundered.
19. Properly pack and store clean linen received from the laundry in the linen closets or storage spaces in the various areas of the health facility.
20. Collect and dispose of normal and bio-hazardous waste material and place in appropriate colour-coded waste bins.
21. Scrub verandah and railings of health facilities.
22 Respond to disaster preparedness action plan and report to duty as directed.
23. Facilitate the safety of personnel by maintaining high standards of cleanliness to protect against infiltration of microorganisms and bacteria.
24. Follows all infection prevention control practices including hand washing techniques, standard precautions, and isolation precautions.
25. Respond to emergencies such as spills and other body fluids immediately to ensure a clean hospital /health facilities environment.
26. Conduct spot checks during the day and cleaning of high-risk areas such as accident and emergency, wards, dialysis unit, isolation, central sterilizing services department, and theatre and other departments as necessary.
27. Perform terminal cleaning in accident and emergency, wards, dialysis unit, isolation, central sterilizing services department, theatre, and other departments to ensure a clean and sterile hospital environment.
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