Support Services
Support service teams are essential to maintaining a safe and well operating environment for everyone in the community.
Housekeeper
Maintenance Technician
Environmental Services Director
Housekeeper
Create a friendly, safe, and clean home-like living environment by maintaining living and common areas.
Housekeepers have the opportunity to interact with residents in the community on a regular basis. They get to hear their stories and learn their personalities and preferences for how they like their living spaces maintained.
Housekeepers contribute daily to the quality of life of the residents by ensuring their living spaces are comfortable, clean, and sanitary. They have an important role in protecting residents by preventing and minimizing exposure to germs that can cause illness or spread infection, helping keep them safe and healthy.
This is a great way to start in long-term care with no prior experience where you can contribute to making people’s lives better and learn about the various other career opportunities available to explore from here.
Typical Activities
- Maintain resident living spaces with cleaning services including vacuuming, mopping, dusting, cleaning windows, wiping down and sanitizing frequently used items and surfaces.
- Provide laundry services including sorting and washing towels, bed linens, and resident clothing.
- Ensure common areas are clean, safe, and tidy.
Skills
- Attention to detail
- Cleanliness
- Organization
- Sanitation
Related Careers
Care Settings
- Assisted Living
- Memory Care
- Residential Care
- Skilled Nursing
Current Opportunities
Maintenance Technician
Provide custodial services and conduct routine repairs and maintenance to ensure the safety and security of the residents.
Maintenance Technicians contribute to creating a safe and comfortable environment for residents, visitors, and staff by performing routine maintenance and repair of the building and grounds. They coordinate with various departments to quickly fulfill all maintenance, installation, and repair needs, ensuring the appearance is maintained and everything in the community is in safe and working condition.
This position offers the opportunity to build experience and learn a wide range of maintenance skills with training, supervision, and support from the Environmental Services Director. Friendly individuals who enjoy problem solving and making things work can find satisfaction in the job responsibilities of a maintenance technician.
Typical Activities
- Maintain the appearance and functionality of the building and facilities.
- Complete routine maintenance inspections.
- Ensure functionality of safety systems such as smoke and carbon monoxide detectors.
- Assemble, install, and maintain furniture and appliances.
- Prepare apartments for new resident move-in.
- Perform grounds maintenance.
Skills
- Adaptability
- Maintenance and repair
- Problem solving
- Prioritizing
- Sanitation
Related Careers
Care Settings
- Assisted Living
- Memory Care
- Residential Care
- Skilled Nursing
Also Known As
- Maintenance Assistant
Current Opportunities
Environmental Services Director
Ensure the community facilities and grounds are safe, sanitary, and well maintained and provide a high-quality living and work environments for all residents and staff.
The Environmental Services Director has a significant impact on the day to day quality of life of the residents and staff. They are responsible for the overall maintenance of the common areas, residential apartments, grounds, equipment, and mechanical systems. Without the environmental service director, the community would not be able provide a safe home-like living environment or run effectively or safely.
A friendly person with a wide range of residential or commercial maintenance and repair skills can make a positive impact in the community by providing a safe living environment that ensures a good quality of life for residents.
Typical Activities
- Perform a wide variety of building maintenance and mechanical work including carpentry, electrical, HVAC, plumbing, interior and exterior painting, masonry, drywall repair, small appliance and minor equipment repair and troubleshooting.
- Conduct daily and routine maintenance inspections of facilities and equipment.
- Promptly respond to resident living spaces and facility maintenance and repair requests.
- Inspect and prepare apartments for new resident move-ins.
- Coordinate service contractors and evaluate performance and quality.
- Maintain inventory supplies, parts, tools, and equipment.
- Ensure the functionality key systems such as fire alarms and resident notification systems.
Skills
- Adaptability
- Attention to detail
- Maintenance and repair
- Problem solving
- Prioritizing
Related Careers
Care Settings
- Assisted Living
- Memory Care
- Residential Care
- Skilled Nursing
Also Known As
- Maintenance Director