Housekeeping Technician - Environmental Services

Mosaic Life Care

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

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