Environmental Services Aide Lead

Allina Health • Minneapolis, MN

5d • $21 - $27 • Onsite

About The Position

As an Environmental Services Aide at Allina Health, you help create a safe, welcoming environment for patients, staff, and visitors by keeping facilities clean, organized, and healthy. The role cleans, sanitizes, and disinfects areas throughout a health care facility, including patient rooms, operating rooms, exam rooms, treatment rooms, care centers, and public areas. It also collects and transports solid and infectious waste and may stock clean linen.

The lead coordinates workflow among employees, ensures assignments match employee skill levels and facility needs, anticipates staffing needs with leadership, orients new employees, and provides technical and functional direction and support. The role maintains appropriate inventory levels and may provide input for staff performance reviews. It uses hospital equipment and supplies safely and effectively, and keeps cleaning carts and closets organized, clean, and stocked. This is a 1.0 FTE position with 40 hours per week, working 8-hour day/evening shifts and an every-other-weekend rotation.

Requirements

• Must be 18 years of age and have the education and/or experience needed to meet the required functional competencies listed in the job description.
• 0 to 2 years of environmental services experience or a high school diploma/GED.

Nice To Haves

• High school diploma or GED, or 6 months of similar work experience.

Responsibilities

• Clean, sanitize, and disinfect all areas of the health care facility.
• Maintain cleanliness in patient rooms, operating rooms, exam rooms, treatment rooms, care centers, and public areas.
• Perform cleaning tasks such as dusting, mopping, emptying trash, changing bed linen, vacuuming, and operating an auto scrub machine to clean floors.
• Identify and report potential and actual safety hazards.
• Report building items, furnishings, and equipment that need repair or replacement.
• Collect and transport solid and infectious waste within the health care facility.
• Collect soiled linen using safety precautions and proper personal protective equipment to prevent accumulation in all areas.
• Coordinate workflow among employees within the work area.
• Ensure staff assignments are appropriate to required skill levels and facility needs.
• Anticipate and assist with staffing needs in partnership with leadership.
• Provide orientation for new employees.
• Provide technical and functional direction and support to employees.
• Maintain inventory at appropriate operating levels and escalate concerns to leadership.
• May provide input for staff performance reviews.
• May stock clean linen in the linen room and departments and maintain proper linen inventory levels.
• Use hospital equipment and supplies safely and effectively.
• Keep cleaning carts organized, clean, and stocked.
• Keep cleaning closets organized and clean.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Medical and dental coverage.
• PTO/time away.
• Retirement savings plans.
• Life insurance.
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
• Voluntary benefits, including vision, legal, and critical illness coverage.
• Tuition reimbursement or continuing medical education, as applicable.
• Student loan support benefits to navigate the Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.
• Well-being dollars, dedicated well-being navigators, programs, activities, articles, videos, personal coaching, and tools.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED