Position Summary:
Position Summary
The Environmental Services Technician level I is responsible for executing the daily duties required to establish and maintain a safe, clean, healing environment. Responsible for ensuring daily room cleaning and timely room turnaround times related to patient throughout within the basic principles of environmental hygiene and infection prevention. The Environmental Services Technician, in accordance with organizational standards of quality, is an essential contributor to cleaning, disinfection, infection prevention, and customer experience.
Responsibilities:
Essential Functions
- Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, using appropriate designated engagement techniques.
- Responsible for the cleaning and disinfecting of patient rooms and ancillary areas, to include, but not limited to, bathrooms, public
areas, corridors, medication storage rooms as directed and any other areas that may require attention using designated and
appropriate chemicals and cleaning procedures.
- Must have good working knowledge and be capable of accessing and using all department related technology systems, such as but
not limited to, the Bed Management systems.
- Replenishes supplies as needed, remove bio-medical waste, trash and soiled linen as required daily and changes cubicle/window
curtains as needed.
- Completes patient room and bathroom cleaning daily to accommodate discharges/admissions and overall cleanliness standards
utilizing the approved procedures for patient room cleaning to include Bed Management systems where applicable.
- Performs duties while demonstrating working knowledge of the health care cleaning and disinfecting principles and requirements,
proper and safe chemical use, equipment handling, and labor-saving products for all items within the healthcare environment for
which tasked with servicing.
- Adheres to all organization safety, risk management, and infection control guidelines and standards while promoting a culture of
safety.
- Operates UV disinfection machine as needed.
- Actively participates in departmental performance improvement initiatives, including but not limited to initiatives to, improve Customer Experience and cleanliness metrics.
Qualifications:
Education/Training
None.
Licensure/Certification
None.
Experience
No experience or less than 3 years exp. in Health care support services and/or environmental services, hospitality, or related field.
