Environmental Services Technician

Job Description

Providing exceptional customer service and patient satisfaction is a responsibility of the EVS Technician-AM, who works under the supervision of the EVS Manager. Provides a daily cleaning of inpatient and non-patient areas, moves furniture, and performs a variety of miscellaneous responsibilities necessary to maintain a safe, clean environment.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates proper hand hygiene and use of personal protective equipment (PPE).
• Demonstrates knowledge and proper use for cleaning and disinfecting chemicals.
• Performs daily cleaning of each occupied patient room and terminal cleaning of discharged patient rooms, following the appropriate cleaning checklist.
• Performs cleaning of public restrooms, common, and ancillary areas throughout the facility and replenishes EVS supplies as assigned.
• Demonstrates the ability to properly empty waste receptacles, change needle (sharps) containers, and transports regular and bio-hazard waste to appropriate destinations.
• Maintains hard surface and carpet floors using various equipment and machines.
• Assist in the clean-up of spills such as mercury, chemo, or formalin with appropriate spill kits.
• Maintains work area in a manner that is conducive to an orderly and efficient workflow, where distractions from personal belongings are minimized.
• Lifts and transports patient room furniture to designated areas.
• Performs cleaning of internal windows and screens within height guidelines, vents, walls, and light fixtures, and changes cubicle curtains as needed.
• Other duties as assigned

Education

• H.S. Diploma - Preferred

Work Experience

• Cleaning experience - Preferred

Licenses and Certifications

• CPI: Nonviolent Crisis Intervention - CPI training for those working in Mental Health - Required within 180 Days

Travel Requirements

• Must be able to travel to various system facilities and off-site locations as needed. - Required

Qualifications

Skills and Abilities

Essential Technical/Motor Skills

• Must be able to spot small objects on carpets, walls, and floors that need cleaning or picking up.
• Must be able to speak clearly so that patients/visitors/staff can understand.
• Must be able to record data pertaining to projects accomplished, what rooms were cleaned, etc.
• Must be coordinated with equipment and observant in such a way that persons in the area are not hurt, bumped into, etc.
• Operates electrical controls on beds safely in order to thoroughly clean.

Interpersonal Skills

• Excellent communication skills.
• Moderate written skills.
• Presents well to patients, visitors, and is well groomed.

Essential Physical Requirements

• Dust and wet mops floors (up to 30 rooms per day; office areas up to 50 rooms).
• Ability to operate vacuum sweeper.
• Ability to lift mops, pails, trash bags, soiled linen hampers, etc.
• Trash bags and linen hampers may weigh from 20-40lbs.), with bags needing transported to utility rooms periodically.
• Ability to flip mattresses on beds for cleaning undersides.
• Ability to stoop repetitively for cleaning under sinks, toilets, etc.
• Ability to reach with arms fully extended up to clean bed lights, high dust, etc.
• Scrub down showers and bathtub surfaces.
• Requires bending/stooping.
• Transport supplies to work areas.
• Supply boxes weigh approximately 30 lbs.
• Washes windows in patient rooms and ancillary rooms, requiring full extended use of arms.
• Occasionally need to stand on step stool.
• Makes up bed for new patients after cleaning a dismissal.
• Moves bed (rolls) in order to dust mop/mop in front of and under bed.
• Mixes small quantities of disinfectant for use in area.
• Pulls and pushes housekeeping cart on both carpeting and hard floor surfaces.
• Ability to work and move quickly. Some schedules require mopping/vacuuming of large areas.
• Requires long periods of repetitive arm movement (mopping/vacuuming).
• Replenish supplies such as toilet paper, paper towels, etc.

Essential Mental Abilities

• \When work is interrupted, must remember what was/wasn't done in a room then finish the work later.
• Must be organized in order to finish work schedule; i.e., pace oneself, remember things, which were done ""yesterday"" which do not need doing ""today"", etc.
• Must explain to patients/residents the service they will perform in rooms.
• Must respond to house calls or pages in a timely manner.
• Must follow department policies which pertain to safety; i.e., putting up wet floor signs, using proper lifting procedures, etc.
• Must know when to enter or leave a patient room depending on activities such as a doctor visit, treatment being administered, etc.
• Must demonstrate appropriate behaviors and speech at all times, observing rules of patient confidentiality.
• May have areas such as Lab, which contain large amounts of trash (30+ lbs.).
• Some of which are filled with infectious waste and may contain sharps.
• Must work safely. Must sometimes clean up ""unpleasant"" messes - blood, feces, vomit, etc.

Essential Sensory Requirements

• Ability to hear house pages or pager messages.
• Ability to distinguish/recognize different cleaning chemicals by smell, and color.
• Vision must be good; uses corner mirrors to avoid colliding with people, notices litter or water spills on floors.

Exposure to Hazards

• The use of cleaning chemicals, if not handled properly.
• Potential responses to bio-hazard clean-up.
• Must pass a fit test with a chemical mask and N - 95.

Other Skills and Abilities