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This position fills exchange carts and basket orders with clean linen items and delivers to hospital and campus locations. The incumbent provides assistance to other linen production areas as needed and visits hospital and off-site facilities using an organization-owned vehicle to determine the types and how much linen is needed on the unit. This position is not responsible for providing patient care.
Corporate Overview: The University of Utah is a Level 1 Trauma Center and is nationally ranked and recognized for our academic research, quality standards and overall patient experience. Our five hospitals and eleven clinics provide excellence in our comprehensive services, medical advancement, and overall patient outcomes.
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To be considered for this role, applicants must:
Please upload your most recent, updated resume that demonstrates a solid background in the qualifications required for this position.
Include complete work history and relevant experience
Ensure their experience clearly reflects the required qualifications
Be able to meet the schedule, hours, and work location listed for this position
Why join University of Utah Health?
Competitive pay
Healthcare benefits starting on day one
401(k) retirement plan
A work environment that values dedication, learning, and work-life balance
Benefits Overview: https://employment.utah.edu/benefits/
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Upon selection, candidates must complete all required pre-employment requirements, including reference checks, a background check, drug screening, and required immunizations
ResponsibilitiesEssential Functions- Fills delivery carts and basket orders with clean linen.
- Delivers clean linen to various hospital locations and off-site facilities following a predetermined par level.
- Removes linen items from delivery carts and counts them as they are placed into cupboards or on exchange carts.
- Records linen delivery times using automated equipment.
- Inventories, weighs and records linen using automated equipment.
- Completes paperwork used to bill non-hospital departments' use of linen.
- Responds to service calls by assembling and delivering orders in a timely manner.
- Assists in controlling the production schedule board for the laundry production supervisors by determining what specific items are needed.
- May assist in the production areas by counting, sorting, folding, wrapping, stacking and removing linen from dryers.
- Ability to perform the essential functions of the job as outlined above.
- Demonstrated human relations and effective communication skills.
- Knowledge of basic math.
- Entry level position.
Employee must be able to meet the following requirements with or without an accommodation.
- This position involves intermediate working conditions in a healthcare setting that may exert up to 50 pounds and may consistently require light work involving lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling or otherwise moving objects which at times weigh in excess of 400 pounds. This position involves considerable standing, bending, stooping, pushing, pulling, reaching and moderate lifting and may be exposed to chemical hazards. Incumbents must have the ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer) and the ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
Skills Required
- Entry-level position
- Ability to perform the essential job functions
- Effective communication and human relations skills
- Knowledge of basic math
- Ability to lift, carry, push, pull, bend, stoop, reach, stand, and walk for extended periods
- Ability to move objects weighing up to or exceeding 400 pounds with assistance or equipment
- Ability to work around chemical hazards in a healthcare and laundry setting
- Ability to distinguish colors and see details at close range
- Completion of background check, drug screening, reference checks, and required immunizations
University of Utah Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about University of Utah and has not been reviewed or approved by University of Utah.
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Retirement Support — Employer-funded retirement contributions on both the academic campus and U of U Health are notably strong, with automatic contributions and additional voluntary savings options. This emphasis makes long-term financial benefits a distinctive part of the total compensation offering.
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Healthcare Strength — Multiple medical plan choices, robust mental-health support through the Employee Assistance Program, and wellness programs create a comprehensive health offering. Network options and wellness incentives further enhance coverage quality.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave policies provide options for fully paid periods or extended partial-pay leave for staff, with parallel provisions at U of U Health. Separate frameworks for faculty include modified duties and leave arrangements during family transitions.
University of Utah Insights
What We Do
The University of Utah, located in Salt Lake City in the foothills of the Wasatch Mountains, is the flagship institution of higher learning in Utah. Founded in 1850, it serves over 31,000 students from across the U.S. and the world. With over 72 major subjects at the undergraduate level and more than 90 major fields of study at the graduate level, including law and medicine, the university prepares students to live and compete in the global workplace. Known for its proximity to seven world-class ski resorts within 40 minutes of campus, the U encourages an active, holistic lifestyle, innovation and collaborative thinking to engage students, faculty and business leaders. The University of Utah became a member of the PAC-12 conference in July 2011. Technology and Commercialization The University of Utah is tops in the country for creating start-up companies from university research, according to a ranking by the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM). See http://unews.utah.edu/news_releases/u-of-utah-no-1-for-startups for more information. Forbes magazine’s recent ranking of the “Best States for Business” pointed to “an educated labor force” as a big reason Utah came in at number one. The U supplies many of the employees for companies that keep expanding their operations in Utah, such as Goldman Sachs, Adobe, Omniture, Oracle, Ebay and many others. http://pac12info.utah.edu/commercialization-of-innovation/ Healthcare University of Utah Health Care recently ranked first in the nation in a prestigious national study. The University Health System Consortium’s 2010 Quality and Accountability Study compared 98 of the nation’s top academic medical centers and ranked them based on core quality measures, patient safety indicators, mortality rates, re-admission rates, and patient satisfaction scores. See more about University of Utah Health Care at http://healthcare.utah.edu/index.php
