Senior Environmental Services Aide

UMC Housekeeper

As an academic medical center with a rich history of providing life-saving treatment in Southern Nevada, UMC serves as the anchor hospital of the Las Vegas Medical District, offering Nevada's highest level of care to promote successful medical outcomes for patients.

UMC is home to Nevada's FIRST Level I Trauma Center, Verified Burn Center, and Transplant Center. In 2026, we became the FIRST and ONLY Magnet®-Recognized hospital in the state, reflecting UMC's nursing professionalism, teamwork, and superiority in patient care.

Position Summary: Monitors housekeeping duties to ensure compliance with health and safety regulations in addition to performing Housekeeper duties. Duties include monitoring and assigning duties to Environmental Services Aides and responsible for cleaning and servicing patient and ancillary areas, perioperative & surgical suites, support areas within or adjacent to perioperative spaces to ensure compliance with AORN (Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses) recommended practices and to reduce the risk of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) in surgical environments.

Job Requirement

Education/Experience: Equivalent to graduation from high school and two (2) years of experience as a custodian/housekeeper.

Licensing/Certification Requirements: None required.

Additional Position Requirements

• 1 or more years of experience in a Healthcare setting as an EVS Aide.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Physical Requirements

Knowledge of: Cleaning and disinfecting requirements specific to highly sensitive environments; facility safety requirements; operating and properly maintaining all tools and equipment needed to clean and disinfect the environment; identifying and utilizing appropriate resources to ensure problems or concerns are followed through and resolved; the health care cleaning and disinfecting principles and requirements, proper and safe chemical use, equipment handling,; English language and reading skills to identify Hazard Classifications and read instructions on chemicals; shampoo and extraction of carpet and upholstery stains; department and hospital safety practice and procedures; patient rights; age specific patient care practices; infection control policies and practices; handling, storage, use and disposal of hazardous materials; department and hospital emergency response policies and procedures.

Skill in: Monitoring and scheduling work of staff; mixing industrial cleaning chemicals; disposing of hazardous materials; distinguishing and explaining orally or in writing the differences between levels of disinfection and perform low to intermediate levels of disinfection; making beds to meet hospital standards; utilization and application of cleaning chemicals in accordance with prescribed standards; reading, writing, and following oral and written instructions; proper lifting techniques; using equipment such as vacuum cleaners, mops, buffers, scrubbers and dollies; communicating with a wide variety of people from diverse socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds; establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with all personnel contacted in the course of duties; efficient, effective and safe use of equipment.

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions: Mobility to work in a typical hospital setting and use standard equipment, stamina to stand and/or walk for extended periods of time, vision to read printed materials, hearing and speech to communicate effectively in-person and over the telephone. Strength and agility to exert up to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 20 pounds of forces constantly to move objects. Incumbents are exposed to diseases and hazardous materials and are required to contain infectious diseases and other contamination such as lice. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this classification.