Environmental Service Tech - FT - Days or Evenings rotating weekends and holidays

Wellstar Health System

18h

About The Position

The Environmental Service Tech provides support for regular, terminal, and isolation cleaning and helps maintain compliance standards while cleaning hospital specialty areas, including operating room suites, cath labs, GI labs, VARU, pharmacy compounding labs, vascular areas, and labor and delivery suites. The role also includes handling and transporting waste, recyclables, and regulated materials; using ultraviolet light devices; and changing, removing, and replacing sharps, pharmacy waste, biohazard, and chemotherapy containers. The position requires customer service and interpersonal skills when interacting with staff, guests, patients, and their families. Employees receive training and authorization for duties in their assigned areas.

Requirements

Ability to speak fluent English and read, write, and understand simple instructions in English.
Complete the Departmental Training Program within the first 30 days of employment.

Nice To Haves

High school diploma or GED.
Some experience.

Responsibilities

Perform restroom and patient-room cleaning, following protocols for regular, terminal, and isolation cleaning as appropriate.
Follow infection-prevention protocols and select appropriate cleaning chemicals.
Perform routine cleaning of walls, doors, glass and windows, furniture, equipment, and floors, including dust mopping, wet mopping, and cleaning corners, edges, base coves, and kick plates.
Remove trash and linen according to the procedures and waste-stream guidelines for each type of material.
Use appropriate personal protective equipment and proper donning and doffing techniques.
Use proper lifting techniques.
Follow hospital and department rules, policies, and procedures.
Use ultraviolet light equipment safely and according to protocol.
Place appropriate liners in waste containers and tie them off as required.
Greet and support staff, patients, and visitors with a positive disposition and provide effective customer service.
Work with special project teams and complete projects assigned by a supervisor.
Participate in performance improvement projects as required.
Document completed daily assignments and adjust to staff shortages by covering other assigned areas.
Use the Epic system to support the productive flow of beds and patients, and log in and out as required.
Perform other duties as assigned and comply with Wellstar Health System policies, standards of work, and code of conduct.