LAUNDRY AID Cape Winelands Health District

Job Overview

The Robertson Hospital in the Langeberg Sub-district (Cape Winelands Health District) is seeking a Laundry Aid. Responsibilities include providing professional linen services, ensuring stock control, maintaining safe and hygienic working areas, and performing physical tasks such as pushing heavy linen trolleys and handling heavy bags. Requirements include basic literacy and numeracy, appropriate laundry experience, a drivers licence, physical fitness, and knowledge of stock and infection control. Applications must be submitted online via the Western Cape Government recruitment portals.

Requirements & Qualifications

• Minimum educational qualification: Basic literacy and numeracy.
• Appropriate experience in general laundry functions.
• Willingness to work overtime, e.g. after-working hours, weekends and public holidays when operational needs require.
• Physically fit and be able to hear and speak clearly.
• Perform hard physical tasks, e.g. pushing heavy linen trolleys to and from the linen bank and wards.
• Load and offload of heavy linen bags 25kg + between facilities and Central Laundry.
• Drivers licence to transport linen to central laundry.
• Ability to sort, sluice and count linen of dirty and fouled linen.
• Ability to communicate (verbal and written).
• Knowledge of stock and infection control.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide a professional linen service to the institution.
• Ensure effective and efficient stock control.
• Ensure safe and hygienic working area standards.
• Provide support within the support service environment.
• Adhere to loyal service ethics.
• Provide support to supervisor.

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