Linen Distribution
- Employer
- University of Virginia
- Location
- Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
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- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Institution Type
- Four-Year Institution
Job Details
Clean linen is fundamental to a safe, organized, and patient-ready healthcare environment. As a Linen Distributor with UVA Health, you will provide the essential behind-the-scenes support that helps hospital teams remain prepared to care for patients every day.
This onsite opportunity is an excellent entry point for someone beginning a career, returning to the workforce, or transitioning into healthcare operations. No previous healthcare experience is necessary, and the role offers practical experience in sanitation practices, inventory management, service, teamwork, and hospital operations.
The Role As a Linen Distributor, you will help ensure that departments throughout the medical center have timely access to clean linen and related supplies. You will work in a fast-paced hospital environment where accuracy, dependability, flexibility, and responsive service directly support caregivers and the patients they serve.
An average day may include:
- Collecting, laundering, sorting, stocking, and distributing linen throughout the medical center
- Monitoring linen supplies and helping maintain appropriate inventory levels in assigned areas
- Responding to department needs with a strong focus on timely, courteous customer service
- Following established sanitation, handling, and workplace safety practices
- Keeping linen storage and distribution areas clean, organized, and ready for use
- Collaborating with Linen Distribution Services colleagues and hospital departments to maintain reliable service
- Organizing daily tasks and adjusting priorities as operational needs change
- Recognizing and communicating supply or service concerns that could affect hospital operations
Although this is not a direct patient care position, your work has a meaningful connection to every patient care area you support. Success requires someone who takes pride in completing important tasks, works effectively as part of a team, and understands that consistent linen service contributes to a clean and prepared care environment.
Candidates with experience in custodial services, housekeeping, environmental services, hospitality, warehousing, inventory, distribution, or a similar setting may find their skills transfer naturally to this opportunity. Just as important are reliability, adaptability, organization, and a commitment to providing excellent service.
Why UVA Health At UVA Health, every team member contributes to the patient care mission. Linen Distribution Services provides an essential operational foundation for the medical center by helping clinical and support departments remain stocked, sanitary, and ready to serve.
This position offers the opportunity to:
- Gain hands-on experience in healthcare operations without providing direct patient care
- Develop transferable skills in sanitation practices, inventory management, supply distribution, communication, and time management
- Learn how hospital departments work together to support safe, efficient care
- Join a team that values dependability, flexibility, service, and pride in a job well done
- Build experience that may support continued professional growth within healthcare operations
- Make a visible contribution to the daily readiness of caregivers and hospital departments
Eligible new hires may receive a $3,000 sign-on bonus with a one-year commitment.
This role is especially well suited for someone who enjoys active, task-oriented work and wants to understand how essential services support a complex medical environment. At UVA Health, linen distribution is more than moving supplies. It is an opportunity to become part of a mission-focused organization and help create the conditions caregivers need to deliver exceptional care.
Charlottesville combines the energy of a university community with access to the Blue Ridge Mountains, outdoor recreation, local restaurants, arts, music, and a vibrant downtown. The area offers healthcare professionals and their families a welcoming community with opportunities to enjoy nature, culture, and meaningful time outside of work. For candidates seeking to build a lasting career in the region, Charlottesville provides an appealing setting in which to live, work, and grow.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
Education: High School Graduate or Equivalent
Experience: No experience required
Licensure: None required
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
Job requires standing for prolonged periods, frequently bending/stooping/traveling, climbing (ladder, steps) and reaching (overhead, extensive, repetitive. Proficient communicative, auditory and visual skills; Attention to detail and ability to write legibly; Ability to lift/push/pull 50-100 lbs. May be exposed to, cold and heat.
The pay range for this role is $15.00 - $25.22 hourly. Individual compensation will be determined by the selected candidate's qualifications, previous work experience, and/or education.Benefits- Comprehensive Benefits Package: Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Generous Paid Time Off
- Retirement Savings
- Long-term and Short-term Disability
- Health Saving Plans, and Flexible Spending Accounts
- Certification and Education Support
The University of Virginia is an equal opportunity employer. All interested persons are encouraged to apply, including veterans and individuals with disabilities. Learn more about UVA’s commitment to non-discrimination and equal opportunity employment.
Organization
In 1819, the University of Virginia established a new model for intellectual exchange and cross-disciplinary collaboration in higher education. Two hundred years later, as a major research institution, we continue to challenge conventions, lead with ingenuity and advance knowledge for the common good.
What began as an innovative idea has become one of the nation’s leading public research universities, with over 21,000 undergraduate, graduate and professional students. UVA also has over 3,000 full-time faculty offering more than 400 degrees.
Each of the University’s eleven schools has its own distinctive mission, working together to garner consistently high rankings—including #2 Best Value Public College (Princeton Review, 2016), #3 Public University in the Nation (U.S. News & World Report, 2016), and #3 Best Value Among Public Colleges (Kiplinger’s, 2016).
As we invest in and strengthen our research capabilities, UVA seeks new faculty ready to uncover new insights, rewrite old rules and collaborate on intellectual discoveries.
RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS THAT CROSS DISCIPLINES
As an R1 institution, the University’s research centers, consortia and laboratories are on the leading edge of discovery and technology, offering collaborative spaces for students and faculty to solve global problems.
Our professors are recognized members of major national scholarly and professional organizations, including the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Our faculty’s engagement in interdisciplinary research is being facilitated by new research institutes specializing in everything from big data to brain functioning, and by cluster hires across schools.
NATIONALLY RANKED HEALTH SYSTEM
UVA is also home to a nationally renowned academic medical center and the UVA Health System, which serves a three-part mission to treat patients, conduct translational research and train medical practitioners in a wide variety of disciplines.
Established as the nation’s 10th medical school in 1825, the institution has since grown to include a 612-bed hospital and a Level I trauma center, nationally recognized cancer and heart centers, a Children’s Hospital, and primary and specialty clinics throughout Central Virginia.
The UVA Medical Center is consistently ranked among the nation’s best hospitals by the U.S. News & World Report magazine and has been named among the top 25 percent in seven specialties.
INSPIRING STUDENTS, INSPIRED TEACHING
The vast majority of UVA students come from the top 10% of their high school class, as well as from all 50 states, over 142 countries and a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds. Despite their diversity, all UVA students share a love of learning and a drive to achieve.
One of the reasons students choose Virginia is our unique residential culture. At UVA, the community of students, faculty and staff personifies the Jeffersonian idea that living and learning are connected. The Academical Village was constructed to support a unique residential experience, with faculty living in the Pavilions, students occupying Lawn rooms and the world-famous Rotunda at its heart. The University’s residential culture continues to support this experience today—strengthened by students, faculty and staff rich in backgrounds, ideas and perspectives. Our unique culture is also paying dividends in innovation: UVA’s faculty have generated more than 130 patents since 2010.
Perhaps most importantly, faculty come to UVA knowing that instruction is as important as research, and they pride themselves on their many teaching awards. Our best professors look for ways to encourage, mentor and develop tomorrow’s leaders inside and outside the classroom.
LIFE IN CHARLOTTESVILLE
Living in Charlottesville you’ll find sophisticated restaurants, world-renowned wineries and breweries, cosmopolitan arts and music, friendly urban and suburban neighborhoods and a Piedmont landscape that has lured adventurous souls for centuries. No wonder the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research named Charlottesville the “happiest city in America” in 2014.
In addition to UVA and its health system, several major employers have facilities in Charlottesville, including State Farm, Northrop Grumman, the U.S. Department of Defense, GE and others. Charlottesville is also becoming a center for innovative start-up businesses. The University also actively helps spouses and partners of faculty members build their networks and pursue employment opportunities with a wide variety of area employers.
The University of Virginia is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All interested persons are encouraged to apply including veterans and individuals with disabilities.
- Telephone
- 434-985-4532
- Location
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2420 Old Ivy
Charlottesvle
Virginia
22911-7433
United States
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