CUSTODIAN I - Homelake Veterans Community Living Center

This position is only open to current Colorado residents. Please note: This recruitment may be used to fill multiple vacancies.
Homelake Veterans Center The Colorado State Veterans Center at Homelake is a State-owned and operated skilled nursing facility and domiciliary dedicated to serving those who have served us. We strive to provide excellent customer service and to respect and honor resident choices regarding bathing, rising, bedtimes, and other personal decisions. Our philosophy is to provide residents a home where life and love abound.

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Shift Information: This position will typically work day shifts. Occasional night shifts may be required.
The purpose of the work unit is to ensure a safe, sanitary, well maintained, comfortable living and working environment for residents of a 60 bed skilled nursing home and 50 unit domiciliary, staff and visitors. We strive to provide exemplary service to the residents by fulfilling daily and special requests that the residents may have. Exemplary care is given in cleaning and sanitizing and in keeping the resident rooms and their atmosphere clean, orgainized, homelike and safe. We need to provide the residents with the kind of service that they need and deserve.

Additionally, as a Custodian I you can expect to:

• Perform daily cleaning, sanitizing, and servicing of rooms utilizing procedures in use at facility with approved disinfectants, cleaners, associated chemicals and equipment
• Perform work related documentation, use universal precautions at all times and use all PPE per job duties
• Perform, as need requires upon the move, discharge, or death of a Resident, cleaning, sanitizing, and servicing assigned work area per procedures in use at Facility by utilizing approved disinfectants, cleaners, associated chemicals, and equipment
• Handle, sort, load, unload, fold, assign, iron, repair, mend, label and distribute Residents laundry and Facility linen
• Utilize approved disinfectants, cleaners, and detergents, bleaching agents, soft/sour agents, spotters, and associated chemicals
• Understand and follow procedures in Universal Precautions as well as the essential programming of all Laundry Equipment
• Performs project floor work consisting of scrubbing, stripping, waxing, sealing, buffing and burnishing of hard floor surfaces. In addition perform spot cleaning, shampooing, extracting and bonnet cleaning of carpets floors by use of appropriate cleaning chemicals and equipment established and provided by Facility
• Cleans and service equipment, maintain assigned housekeeping closets and carts, supplies, stock levels, and chemical labeling requirements
• Sweep and clean facility smoking area and associated walkways as necessary
• Safety moves furniture, appliances, supplies, ect. Manually and by use of available equipment
• Replaces light bulbs, assist with minor building repairs and snow removal when needed. Drive agency vehicles when transporting furniture, gathering supplies on campus or when making purchases from local supply companies. Perform work related documentation, use universal precautions at all times and use all PPE per job duties.
• Other duties as assigned
  

Minimum Qualifications:

Experience Only:

Six (6) months of experience in Housekeeping, mopping, sweeping, trash, floor care, laundry, vacuuming, daily cleaning.

Preferred qualification :

• Experience working in a long-term care/assisted living environment
• Experience doing laundry as a previous job duty

• Good Communication skills open and honest

• Knowledge of quality standards, procedures, and protocols

• Ability to effectively work with a team and independently

C onditions of Employment :

• CDHS employees (all Direct contact with vulnerable persons): CBI name check and fingerprint check, ICON Colorado court database, Medicare fraud database, Reference Checks, Professional License verification (licensure requirements), Drug Screen, PREA (Division of Youth Services), Trails check (direct contact with children), CAPS (direct contact with adults Mental Health Institutes, Regional Centers, Veterans Community Living Centers)
• Work evenings, weekends, holidays, split shifts
• Ability to lift 50 lbs. occasionally.
• Ability to climb, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, and reach throughout an eight hour work shift
• Ability to dispose of hazardous waste & assist in emergency clean-up
• Travel: Will be attending trainings with Environmental/Operations Management.
• This position is considered essential services, which means the employee is required to report without delay or interruption to provide essential or emergency services to ensure health, safety, and welfare to residents.
• Use, Handling, or Exposure to hazardous materials Required to dispose of Hazardous waste to proper location within facility.
• Former State employees who were disciplinarily terminated or resigned in lieu of termination must disclose the information on the application and provide an explanation why the prior termination or resignation should not disqualify the applicant from the current position. Absent extraordinary circumstances, prior disciplinary termination or resignation in lieu of termination will disqualify the applicant from future State employment with CDHS.

Appeal Rights:

If you receive notice that you have been eliminated from consideration for this position, you may file an appeal with the State Personnel Board or request a review by the State Personnel Director.

An appeal or review must be submitted on the official appeal form, signed by you or your representative. This form must be delivered to the State Personnel Board by email (...), postmarked in US Mail or hand delivered (1525 Sherman Street, 4th Floor, Denver CO 80203), or faxed ...) within ten (10) calendar days from your receipt of notice or acknowledgement of the departments action.

For more information about the appeals process, the official appeal form, and how to deliver it to the State Personnel Board; go to spb.colorado.gov ; contact the State Personnel Board for assistance at ...; or refer to 4 Colorado Code of Regulations (CCR) 801-1, State Personnel Board Rules and Personnel Director's Administrative Procedures, Chapter 8, Resolution of Appeals and Disputes, at spb.colorado.gov under Rules.

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About Us:

If your goal is to build a career that makes a difference, consider joining the dedicated people of the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS). Our professionals strive to design and deliver high quality human and health services that improve the safety, independence, and well-being of the people of Colorado. In addition to a great location and rewarding and meaningful work, we offer:

• Strong, secure, yet flexible retirement benefits including a PERA Defined Benefit Plan or PERA Defined Contribution Plan www.copera.org plus 401(k) and 457 plans

• Medical and dental health plans

• Employer supplemented Health Savings Account

• Paid life insurance

• Short- and long-term disability coverage

• 11 paid holidays per year plus vacation and sick leave

• BenefitHub state employee discount program

• Employee Wellness program

• Excellent work-life programs, such as flexible schedules, training and more

• Remote work arrangements for eligible positions

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Our Values:

We believe in a people-first approach: To serve the people of Colorado, we develop a culture and work environment that creates an energized, inspired, and healthy team capable of giving their best to Coloradans .

Balance creates quality of life: We want our team to be resilient through a supportive workplace that values flexibility, health and wellness, and employee engagement.

We hold ourselves accountable: We take responsibility through our actions, programs, and results for the state of health and human services in Colorado.

Transparency matters: We are open and honest with employees, our partners, the Coloradans we serve, and the public.

We are ethical: We abide by what is best for those we serve by doing what is right, not what is easy.

Collaboration helps us rise together: We work together with all partners, employees, and clients to achieve the best outcomes for Coloradans.

We are committed to increasing the diversity of our staff and providing culturally responsive programs and services. Therefore, we encourage responses from people of diverse backgrounds and abilities.

ADAA Accommodations: CDHS is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, our agency will assist individuals who have a disability with any reasonable accommodation requests related to employment, including completing the application process, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, participating in the employee selection process, and/or to perform essential job functions where the requested accommodation does not impose an undue hardship. If you have a disability and require reasonable accommodation to ensure you have a positive experience applying or interviewing for this position, please direct your inquiries to our ADAA Coordinator, Nancy Schmelzer, at ... or call ....

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