Environmental Services Tech I (EVS I)
The Environmental Service Technician I is responsible for executing the daily duties required to establish and maintain a safe, hygienic, and aesthetically pleasing care environment. 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.
Requirements :
- Ensuring timely room turns related to patient throughput within the basic principles of environmental hygiene and infection prevention.
- Empties trash, cleans trash can as needed, relines can with clean liner.
- Removes infectious waste and fills sharps containers as needed.
- Damp dusts furniture, ledges, and fixtures with a germicidal agent.
- Dry mops, wet mops floors and vacuums carpeting.
- High dust vents, over bed lights and other items over shoulder height.
- Operates several types of vacuum cleaners and other miscellaneous cleaning tools.
- Expected at times to wear personal protection equipment to include rubber gloves, eye protection, gowns, booties, masks, and hair covers.
- Other duties as assigned such as performing alternate EVS aid responsibilities as needed.
Essential Qualifications :
Prefer completion of High School Diploma or equivalent.Safely and properly lift and transport items weighing up to 50 lbs.Safely and properly pull, push, bend, stoop, kneel, crouch and stretch.Benefits :
Tuition Assistance reimbursement programCompany paid Maternity and Paternity leave.Bereavement Leave (includes pets)PTO Sell Back ProgramCompassionate Leave Sharing Program (PTO Donation)Employee Support Fund, for employees in need of emergency financial support