Housekeeper - PRN
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KVC Health Systems
Hays, KS, US
Summary
The housekeeper is responsible for maintaining clean, sanitary, and orderly inpatient and residential facilities to ensure a safe environment for children and families. They also manage supply inventories, distribute linens, and complete environmental compliance reports.
Job Description
Housekeeper - PRN
Hays, KS
Make a Difference in the Place Where Healing Happens
Our Indeed Work Wellbeing Score: 83
Clean spaces do more than look good. They create safety, comfort, dignity, and a sense of stability for children, families, and the people who care for them.
As a Housekeeper, you’ll play an important behind-the-scenes role in creating an environment where children and families can feel safe and supported. Your work helps ensure our inpatient and residential facilities are clean, sanitary, welcoming, and ready every day for the people who depend on us.
If you take pride in your work, notice the details others might miss, and want your work to have a meaningful purpose, this could be the opportunity you’ve been looking for.
Why This Role Matters
You won’t simply be cleaning rooms.
You’ll be helping create an environment where:
- Children and families feel respected and cared for.
- Staff have a safe, clean environment in which to do their best work.
- Families arriving at our facilities experience a welcoming, well-maintained space.
- Health, safety, sanitation, and regulatory standards are consistently met.
- The small details that make a facility feel comfortable and cared for don’t get overlooked.
What You’ll Do
As part of our team, you will:
- Keep inpatient and residential facilities clean, sanitary, orderly, and compliant with applicable safety and regulatory standards.
- Make sure the facility is tour ready and presents a welcoming, professional environment.
- Monitor supplies and maintain an adequate inventory of clean linens.
- Distribute clean linens as needed throughout the facility.
- Complete environmental compliance reports and communicate findings to the Facility Safety Officer.
- Identify cleanliness, safety, or environmental concerns and help address them proactively.
- Work collaboratively with staff, children and families, and community partners while maintaining a respectful and professional presence.
- Serve as a positive role model by demonstrating accountability, integrity, teamwork, and a commitment to continuous improvement.
- Perform other duties consistent with your qualifications and the needs of the program.
What We’re Looking For
Minimum Requirements:
Education: High school diploma from an accredited high school or GED.
Licensure/Certification: Valid driver’s license and current auto insurance.
Experience: One to three months of relevant experience and/or training, or an equivalent combination of training and experience, intermediate computer skills, including typing/keyboarding and working with Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Outlook email.
Preferred Experience: One to three years of experience working in a facility that provides services to children and families.
You may be a great fit if you:
- Take genuine pride in keeping spaces clean, safe, and welcoming.
- Notice details and follow through without needing to be asked.
- Understand that cleanliness can directly affect how people feel and experience a space.
- Can work independently while also being a dependable member of a team.
- Treat children, families, coworkers, and community partners with respect.
- Approach challenges with a solutions-focused mindset.
- Are dependable, accountable, and willing to continuously improve.
- Want to know that the work you do each day contributes to something bigger than yourself.
Physical Requirements
- This position requires the ability to perform the physical activities necessary to maintain a clean and safe facility. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- The role regularly requires standing, walking, talking or hearing, and using the senses of taste or smell. Employees frequently use their hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with their hands and arms; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Sitting is occasionally required.
- The employee must be able to:
- Regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.
- Frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
- Occasionally lift and/or move up to 75 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment
This position works in inpatient and residential environments serving children and families. Employees should be comfortable working in an active facility where priorities may change and where maintaining cleanliness, safety, professionalism, and compassion is essential.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
A clean room can provide comfort. A well-maintained facility can provide safety. A welcoming environment can help someone feel that they matter. That’s the difference your work can make here.
If you’re looking for a role where your effort is visible, your reliability is valued, and the work you do contributes to the wellbeing of children and families, we encourage you to apply.
At KVC Health Systems, our 2,800 caring team members work every day to strengthen families, prevent child abuse and neglect, and help both children and adults achieve mental wellness. We all need connection! And at KVC, our employees are our greatest asset and strength, helping the people we serve experience the power of connection to themselves, their family and friends, and to professionals who can help them thrive.
We're working toward a bold vision: a world in which every person is SAFE and CONNECTED to a strong family and a healthy community. No more child abuse and neglect. No more untreated mental illness or addiction. Parents no longer pass down the cycles of violence, substance use or trauma that they experienced as children. Instead, families have the skills and supportive connections they need to thrive. Every individual has unlimited possibilities and can reach their full potential. This is why the KVC team comes to work every day, providing family strengthening services, mental and behavioral healthcare, foster care, adoption and inpatient children’s mental health treatment. People are facing serious challenges, and community needs are greater than ever. Will you join us?
Since 1970, KVC has grown from a single home for at-risk children to a national organization serving over 80,000 children and families each year in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Kentucky and West Virginia. KVC also provides training and consultation around the world. We're a family of private, nonprofit 501(c)3 organizations committed to enriching and enhancing the lives of children and families. Learn more at www.kvc.org.
Company size
1,001-5,000 employees
Industry
Individual and Family Services
Org type
Nonprofit
Headquarters
Olathe, KS
At KVC Health Systems, our 2,800 caring team members work every day to strengthen families, prevent child abuse and neglect, and help both children and adults achieve mental wellness. We all need connection! And at KVC, our employees are our greatest asset and strength, helping the people we serve experience the power of connection to themselves, their family and friends, and to professionals who can help them thrive.
We're working toward a bold vision: a world in which every person is SAFE and CONNECTED to a strong family and a healthy community. No more child abuse and neglect. No more untreated mental illness or addiction. Parents no longer pass down the cycles of violence, substance use or trauma that they experienced as children. Instead, families have the skills and supportive connections they need to thrive. Every individual has unlimited possibilities and can reach their full potential. This is why the KVC team comes to work every day, providing family strengthening services, mental and behavioral healthcare, foster care, adoption and inpatient children’s mental health treatment. People are facing serious challenges, and community needs are greater than ever. Will you join us?
Since 1970, KVC has grown from a single home for at-risk children to a national organization serving over 80,000 children and families each year in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Kentucky and West Virginia. KVC also provides training and consultation around the world. We're a family of private, nonprofit 501(c)3 organizations committed to enriching and enhancing the lives of children and families. Learn more at www.kvc.org.
Company size
1,001-5,000 employees
Industry
Individual and Family Services
Org type
Nonprofit
Headquarters
Olathe, KS