Environmental Aide Hospital
About The Position
The Environmental Aide performs housekeeping and cleaning duties to meet state, regulatory agency, facility, RHS Infection Control, and Environmental Services requirements. The role helps maintain a neat, clean, and safe work environment, ensures cleaning supplies are adequate, and assists team members with moving equipment and beds. The aide cleans assigned patient-care and non-patient-care areas, uses and stores cleaning chemicals safely, restocks supplies, cleans carts, and performs terminal cleaning in accordance with RHS policies. The role also follows infection-control, patient-safety, hazardous-materials, universal-precaution, and body-mechanics guidelines. Assigned areas must be cleaned thoroughly and on schedule, with ongoing attention to cleanliness, quality, and infection-control standards.
Nice To Haves
- High School Diploma or GED.
- One year of housekeeping or environmental services experience in a healthcare setting.
- Certified Auto External Defibrillator (AED) certification from the American Heart Association, American Red Cross, or American Safety and Health Institute.
Responsibilities
- Clean assigned areas, including patient rooms, bathrooms, corridors, public areas, elevators, nurses’ stations, laboratories, lounges, and locker rooms, using methods such as sweeping, washing, mopping, dusting, disinfecting, and sanitizing.
- Use the correct cleaners for each task and label and store chemicals safely and properly.
- Restock supplies and clean carts daily; maintain assigned areas with necessary paper goods, soaps, chemicals, and reusable goods.
- Perform terminal cleaning and keep assigned areas clean in accordance with RHS policies.
- Maintain a safe patient-care environment by following RHS, DNV, state, and other regulatory standards.
- Follow guidelines for proper body mechanics, hazardous-material handling, and universal precautions to help prevent accidents and injuries.
- Perform cleaning duties promptly, safely, and thoroughly in compliance with Infection Control Standards, including dusting, cleaning, sanitizing, trash removal, and other needed services.
- Clean areas according to schedules and departmental policies.
- Complete assignments in a timely manner while consistently meeting quality and infection-control measures.
- Monitor assigned areas to maintain cleanliness and order in accordance with departmental policies, procedures, and schedules.
- Assist team members with moving equipment and beds.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
High school or GED
