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.
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.
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