LAUNDRY AID Cape Winelands Health District

Job Overview

The Cape Winelands Health District is hiring a Laundry Aid at Robertson Hospital, Langeberg Sub-district. Responsibilities include providing professional linen services, ensuring effective stock control, maintaining safe and hygienic working areas, and assisting supervisors. Requirements include basic literacy and numeracy, appropriate laundry experience, physical fitness to handle heavy linen tasks (25kg+), a driver's licence, and knowledge of stock and infection control. Applications must be submitted online via the Western Cape Government recruitment portals.

Requirements & Qualifications

• Basic literacy and numeracy educational qualification
• Appropriate experience in general laundry functions
• Willingness to work overtime, after-working hours, weekends, and public holidays when operational needs require
• Physically fit and able to hear and speak clearly
• Ability to perform hard physical tasks, such as pushing heavy linen trolleys to and from the linen bank and wards
• Ability to load and offload heavy linen bags (25kg+) between facilities and Central Laundry
• Drivers licence to transport linen to central laundry
• Ability to sort, sluice, and count dirty and fouled linen
• Ability to communicate verbally and in written form
• 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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