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Employment Type:

Full time

Shift:

Day Shift

Description:

POSITION PURPOSE:

Performs those functions necessary to provide laundry and linen service to user departments throughout the hospital and outside clients. Operates moving machinery, sorts, folds, and assembles clean linen on carts. Patients range in age from adolescent through older adults.

Details:

Your best life. Our one purpose.

At MercyOne, we own our actions to achieve our larger goals. We invest in great people and ask that you make each experience your responsibility.

What we offer:

We care about your well-being, both physical and mental, which is why our benefit package includes:

• Wellness programs

• Education reimbursement

• Personalized health insurance plans including dental and vision

• Paid time off

• Long- and short-term leave

• Retirement planning

• Life insurance coverage

What you will do:

• Adheres to the principles of caring and expected behaviors outlined in Mercy Medical Center's Model of Caring and Trinity Health's Code of Conduct, fostering a climate where all customers are treated in a manner consistent with Mercy Medical Center's Mission and Values.

• Maintains a working knowledge of applicable Federal, State and local laws and regulations, Trinity Health’s Organizational Integrity Program, Standards of Conduct, as well as other policies and procedures in order to ensure adherence in a manner that reflects honest, ethical and professional behavior.

• Distributes clean linen to the organization and to outside clients by filling telephone requests, department requisitions or exchange carts.

• Restocks exchange carts, stocks incoming clean linen in correct location rotating stock.

• Works on processing floor.

• Performs routine cleaning functions to maintain a clean environment by disinfecting carts and replacing soiled or torn cart covers.

• Maintains par levels on disaster carts and delivers to Emergency, Central Sterilization, and Ambulatory during CD200.

• Takes an active role in improving the quality of service provided by department.

• Undergo annual training through Healthstreams concerning the appropriate handling and security of IV Solutions and medications.

What we are looking for:

• High school graduate or equivalent preferred.

• On-the-job training is available.

• Child and Dependent Adult Abuse Mandatory Reporter Training is required within 6 months of hire and every 3 years thereafter.

• Maintains a professional, collaborative work environment so as to foster a positive public image for Mercy Medical Center.

• Knows and adheres to all laws and regulations pertaining to patient health, safety and medical information (i.e. HIPAA, Stark, etc.).

• Must be able to take orders over the telephone.

• Must have ability to operate weight scale, perform math problems and be clerically accurate.

• Must have physical ability to stock shelves on carts and in closets.

• Must have physical ability to push/pull carts weighing up to 750 lbs.

• Must be able to follow written and oral directions.

• Must be able to operate laundry equipment:

• Small piece folders

• Feeder/spreader/ironer/folder

• Hot head press

• Heat seal machines.

• Must be able to feed and catch clean linen at an acceptable rate.

• Must be able to work independently, exercising good decision making skills.

MercyOne Eastern Iowa provides exceptional, personalized care to Dubuque, Dyersville, Elkader, Clinton and surrounding areas providing more than 300 licensed beds. MercyOne Eastern Iowa operates four medical centers in Dubuque, Elkader, Dyersville and Clinton. Our facility in Clinton has branches in DeWitt (https://www.mercyone.org/location/mercyone-dewitt-family-medicine) , and Fulton (https://www.mercyone.org/location/mercyone-fulton-family-medicine) specializing in family medicine and Savanna Home Health & Hospice Care based in Illinois.

• MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center (https://www.mercyone.org/dubuque/find-a-location/)

• MercyOne Dyersville Medical Center

• MercyOne Elkader Medical Center (https://www.mercyone.org/location/mercyone-elkader-medical-center)

• MercyOne Clinton Medical Center

With a history dating back more than 130 years, MercyOne Eastern Iowa has grown through expansions, acquisitions and consolidations to help provide exceptional, personalized care to our communities. Our four medical centers employ over 2,000 colleagues and medical staff improving access and creating an even higher level of care coordination to benefit patients and communities throughout the region.

Our Mission:

We, Trinity Health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel, as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.

Our Core Values:

• Reverence

• Commitment to Those Who are Poor

• Safety

• Justice

• Stewardship

• Integrity

Our Vision:

• We will be the most trusted health partner for life.

Our Actions:

As a Trinity Health colleague, I will:

• Listen to understand.

• Learn continuously.

• Keep it simple.

• Create solutions.

• Deliver outstanding service.

• Own and speak up for safety

• Expect, embrace and initiate change.

• Demonstrate exceptional teamwork.

• Trust and assume good intentions.

• Hold myself and others accountable for results.

• Communicate directly with respect and honesty.

• Serve every person with empathy, dignity and compassion.

• Champion diversity, equity and inclusion.

Our Promise:

• We Listen.

• We Partner.

• We Make it Easy.

MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center and all its affiliates are proud to be equal opportunity employers. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, physical disability or any other classification protected under local, state or federal law.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Trinity Health is one of the largest not-for-profit, Catholic healthcare systems in the nation. Built on the foundation of our Mission and Core Values, we integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion in all that we do. Our colleagues have different lived experiences, customs, abilities, and talents. Together, we become our best selves. A diverse and inclusive workforce provides the most accessible and equitable care for those we serve. Trinity Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other status protected by law.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Trinity Health is a family of 115,000 colleagues and nearly 26,000 physicians and clinicians across 25 states. Because we serve diverse populations, our colleagues are trained to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes. We also recognize that each of us has a different way of thinking and perceiving our world and that these differences often lead to innovative solutions.

Our dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention, and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity.

EOE including disability/veteran