Environmental Service Associate Lead

Foundation Health, LLC•Fairbanks, AK

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Environmental Services Lead plays a vital role in maintaining a clean, safe, and welcoming environment for patients, residents, staff, and visitors. This position provides daily oversight and support to Environmental Services team members, ensuring high standards of cleanliness, infection prevention, and regulatory compliance are consistently met. The Lead serves as a working supervisor—modeling best practices, coordinating assignments, and responding proactively to operational needs—while fostering teamwork, accountability, and excellence in service delivery. This provides leadership and training for environmental services associates, while working as a member of the EVS Associate team.

Requirements

Requires the skills, knowledge and abilities in healthcare environmental services work typically acquired over two or more years of related work experience.
Must have leadership skills and be able to communicate effectively verbally and in writing.
Requires the ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
Must serve as a role model to others in customer service skills, safe work practices, and infection control including hand hygiene.
For incumbents assigned to the Crisis Response Center (CRC), additional requirements apply: Must be able to learn food handling regulations and pass certification tests as required.
Must obtain fingerprint card as defined in Arizona Revised Statute (A.R.S.) 36-425.03 and state licensing rule R9-10-1011(A)(4).

Nice To Haves

Basic computer skills in word processing and electronic mail are preferred.

Responsibilities

Ensures that staffing plans are carried out properly, and that all areas of the hospital/facility are staffed appropriately.
With supervisor, plans completion of hospital wide projects, ensures consistent service delivery standards in all aspects of the Environmental Services and Linen operations.
Gives input to supervisor on quality and timeliness of work performed by environmental services staff.
Performs cleaning functions in patient rooms, specialty areas and common areas.
Works closely with supervisor to train and retrain, recruit, retain and develop the Environmental Services team members, fostering a culture that reflects the core values and operational polices of our department and the company.
May supervise staff in the absence of the Environmental Services leader.
Makes work assignments and responds to immediate needs by moving staff to various areas of facility as needed.
Moves furniture and sets up rooms for meetings and special functions.
Assists supervisor in performing Quality Assurance Inspections for review and correction of deficiencies.
Distributes linens and supplies as needed; takes inventories in assigned areas.
Performs all functions according to established policies, procedures, regulatory and accreditation requirements, as well as applicable professional standards.
Provides all customers of Foundation Health with an excellent service experience by consistently demonstrating our core and leader behaviors each and every day.