Position Summary:
The Environmental Services Technician lll isresponsible for executing the daily dutiesrequired to establish andmaintain a safe, clean, and healing environment. The EVS Tech will have contact with patients, visitors, and clinical and non-clinical staff. Contact may include physical, psychological, educational, and safety related and should be appropriate to the specific demographics of patients served in assigned service areas. Responsible for transporting regular waste, soiled linen, weighing and recording clean linen, bio-hazardous waste, recycling waste, maintenance of trash containers, and performing routine manual tasks inside hospital and operate trash dumpsters, scales, and package bio-waste for shipping
Responsibilities:
Essential Functions
- Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaintsfrom customers.
- Transports regular waste, bio-hazardous waste, and recycling waste to the designated collection location and prepared
for transporting according per Department of Transportation and Department of Health standards.
- Maintains a clean and safe environment around the linen room, dumpster/bio-trailers area, and/or designated areasthat will
leave area clean and litter-free.
- Emptiestrash containers and cleansthem so they are free from spills and marks.
- Operates outside cleaning equipment, such as, but not limited to, pressure washer, leaf blower, Billy Goat and cart washing machine.
- Takes a proactive approach to maintaining the identified patient and non-patient areas that need attention to be compliant with all
mandated and regulatory agency requirements.
- Maintains work area in a safe manner by utilizing appropriate safety systemsto protect patients, customers, and team members.
- To achieve a Superior Facility Image, this position is responsible for the cleaning and disinfecting of patient rooms, and ancillary areas,
to include, but notlimited to, bathrooms, public areas, corridors,medication storage rooms as directed and any other areasthat may
require attention using designated and appropriate chemicals and cleaning procedures.
- Maintains equipmentin a clean and functional condition. Keeps work areas orderly, clean, and safe.
- Worksindependently to complete tasks as assigned.
Qualifications:
Education/Training
High School Diploma or GED preferred
Licensure/Certification
- DOT (Department of Transportation) Certification within the first 90 days. Certified Healthcare Environmental Services Technician
(CHEST), preferred.
- Linen Helper Software or similar software.
Experience
Three (3) or more years exp. in Health care supportservices and/or environmental services, hospitality, or related field to include
one (1) or more years’ experience as a porter or warehouse worker experience.
