Housekeeping Attendant

Core Job Responsibilities

1. Infection Control and Surface Disinfection

• High-Touch Disinfection: Sterilizing surfaces frequently touched by hands, such as door handles, handrails, bed rails, and light switches.

• Patient Room Turnover: Deep cleaning and sanitizing patient rooms immediately following patient discharges or deaths.

• Specialized Area Cleaning: Disinfecting high-risk zones, including operation theaters, intensive care units (ICUs), and emergency rooms according to medical protocols.

• Chemical Compliance: Applying specific, approved clinical disinfectants safely to eliminate dangerous viruses and bacteria without causing skin or respiratory irritation.

2. Waste Management

• Biohazard Disposal: Collecting and segregating hazardous medical waste, such as soiled dressings or fluid-contaminated items, into designated biohazard bins.

• General Trash Removal: Emptying standard trash and recycling bins located across waiting areas, administrative offices, and nurse stations.

• Spill Response: Deploying immediate emergency cleanup protocols for hazardous chemical or biological fluid spills.

3. Room and Ward Maintenance

• Floor Care: Sweeping, mopping, vacuuming, and operating specialized heavy machinery like industrial floor buffers or scrubbers.

• Linen Management: Stripping used bedding, collecting soiled scrubs or hospital gowns, and distributing clean linen to patient areas.

• Supply Restocking: Monitoring and replenishing soap dispensers, hand sanitizers, paper towels, and toilet paper in all restrooms and patient rooms.

4. Patient Support and General Service

• Meal Delivery Assistance: Assisting ward staff by serving meals or drinks to patients and clearing away trays after dining.

• Facility Auditing: Inspecting structural elements or equipment (such as broken guardrails or leaking taps) and logging maintenance requests.

• Privacy Compliance: Maintaining strict professional boundaries and respecting patient privacy and confidentiality rules while cleaning occupied spaces.

  5. Daily Living Assistance (ADLs)

  • Personal Hygiene: Administering sponge baths, assisting with showers, grooming, dental care, and dressing.

  • Toileting Support: Managing diaper changes, cleaning bedpans, and assisting with bathroom visits while preserving patient dignity.

  • Nutritional Intake: Preparing specialized clinical diets, feeding patients who cannot feed themselves, and tracking fluid hydration levels

  • Bedsore Prevention: Repositioning bedridden or paralyzed patients every few hours to eliminate pressure ulcers

    6 . Communication & Environment Control

    • Condition Reporting: Acting as the primary line of communication by alerting doctors to physical or behavioral changes.

    • Sanitation Boundary: Maintaining the immediate cleanliness of the patient’s bed, medical apparatus, and nightstand (including general house cleaning).

    • Companionship: Alleviating isolation by talking, reading aloud, and participating in cognitive activities with the patient.

      7. Critical Skill Matrix

      • Physical Strength: Essential for safely lifting, pivoting, and transferring patients between beds and wheelchairs.

      • Medical Literacy: Ability to read prescription schedules, track vital machines, and notice early clinical symptoms.

      • Crisis Management: Remaining completely calm and executing immediate emergency protocols (like CPR) if a patient collapses

  
  

• It is a Full Time Housekeeping job for candidates with 1 - 5 years of experience.