OR Orderly/EVS - Full-Time - AVALA Hospital - RH347

Hospital Cleaning Staff

Performs routine and terminal cleaning under supervision, including but not limited to: mopping, dusting, sweeping, trash removal, window cleaning, disinfecting patient rooms, cleaning laboratories, and interacting with patients in a hospital environment.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

OPERATING ROOM AREA

• Transport patients to and from the operating room area. Ensure patient safety. Reports any patient complaints. Assist nursing with transferring patients to and from the operating room bed and moving heavy equipment.
• Assists in positioning patients for surgery. Assists with positioning and holding patient extremities during prep.
• Transport specimens to the laboratory.
• Clean operating room suites and other restricted areas. Terminally clean OR suites as assigned daily. Cleans vertical and horizontal surfaces that collect dust. Cleans tops of windows, doorframes, TV's and other high places, using ladder when necessary. Dusts, cleans and polishes furniture including beds.
• Re-stock supplies, linens and fill the blanket warmers in the sterile core as needed. Washes sinks and other plumbing fixtures and replaces supplies, such as paper towels, soaps and toilet paper as needed. Polishes metal or other bright surfaces, cleaning glass and enamel fixtures with proper cleaning chemicals.
• Clean stretchers and beds and replace sheets. Maintain equipment storage rooms. Perform individual daily extra assignments as assigned.
• Assists in maintaining the cleanliness of equipment.
• Dispose all linen and trash in the appropriate manner. Empty and replace sharps containers in all rooms.
• Mop floors in all areas on a daily basis. Check and restock mop heads several times a day.

Terminally cleans:

• Machines after each case
• Tables after each case
• Stools after each case
• Equipment (i.e. lights, orbiters, etc.)
• Doors
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned by director/charge nurse.
• Video monitoring may be additional responsibility.

Core Competencies

Action Orientation - Targets and achieves results, overcomes obstacles, accepts responsibility, establishes standards and responsibilities, creates a results-oriented environment, and follows through on actions.

Communications - Communicates well both verbally and in writing. Effectively conveys and shares information and ideas with others. Listens carefully and understands various viewpoints. Presents ideas clearly and concisely and understands relevant detail in presented information.

Creativity/Innovation - Generates novel ideas and develops or improves existing and new systems that challenge the status quo, takes risks, and encourages innovation.

Critical Judgment - Possesses the ability to define issues and focus on achieving workable solutions. Consistently does the right thing by performing with reliability.

Customer Orientation - Listens to customers, builds customer confidence, increases customer satisfaction, ensures commitments are met, sets appropriate customer expectations, and responds to customer needs.

Interpersonal Skills - Effectively and productively engages with others and establishes trust, credibility, and confidence with others.

Leadership - Motivates, empowers, inspires, collaborates with, and encourages others. Builds consensus when appropriate. Focuses team members on common goals.

Teamwork - Knows when and how to attract, develop, reward, and utilize teams to optimize results. Acts to build trust, inspire enthusiasm, encourage others, and help resolve conflicts and develop consensus in creating high-performance teams.

Professional Requirements

• Meets dress code standards and adheres to policies.
• Completes required education requirements.
• Maintains regulatory requirements.
• Maintains patient confidentiality at all times.
• Reports to work on time and as scheduled, completes work within designated time.
• Wears identification while on duty, uses computerized punch time system correctly.
• Completes in-services and returns in a timely fashion.
• Attends department in-services, as scheduled.
• Attends staff meetings or reads and returns all monthly staff meeting minutes.
• Represents the organization in a positive and professional manner.
• Actively participates in performance improvement and continuous quality improvement (CQI) activities.
• Complies with all organizational policies regarding ethical business practices.
• Communicates the mission, ethics and goals of the hospital, as well as the focus statement of the department.
• Promotes professional growth of subordinates by sharing knowledge and/or directing them to sources if information appropriate to given situation. Utilizes journals, books, etc. to learn and/or improve new techniques and equipment.
• Assists other staff members in performing any duty that enhances the delivery of patient care.

Regulatory Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent.

Skills

• Ability to communicate effectively in English, both verbally and in writing.
• Basic computer knowledge.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to see, talk, hear and use both hands to easily communicate. This position is very active and requires repetitive motions, carrying, pushing, pulling, standing, walking, bending, kneeling, squatting and stooping all day. The employee must frequently lift or move items weighing up to and over 100 pounds (with assistance).

Environmental Conditions

Primarily works inside, may experience the following hazards: biological, needles and sharps, radiation, stress, noise, vibration, dust, fumes, and occasional temperature extremes.

Occupational Exposure

Job involves tasks or procedures that have exposure to blood and other potentially infectious materials during the performance of duties.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.