Environmental Services (EVS) Specialist – Housekeeper | Northport Medical Center

DCH Health System•Northport, AL

4d•Onsite

About The Position

The Environmental Services (EVS) Specialist cleans and services assigned building and patient-care areas at Northport Medical Center according to established procedures and schedules. Duties include cleaning patient rooms and other facility areas, maintaining floors and furnishings, collecting waste and linen, and keeping cleaning equipment and supplies orderly. The role may involve working in medication storage areas and requires maintaining secured access and promptly notifying clinical staff if medications are found in an unlocked, unsupervised area. The Specialist operates mechanical and electrical cleaning equipment and reports damaged furniture or equipment requiring repair. The position also provides training to new hires and others assigned to the units, uses electronic mail and facility software, and follows DCH Health System policies, procedures, and behavioral standards. Onsite physical presence is essential.

Requirements

Ability to follow and understand verbal communications and written procedures.
Ability to communicate verbally with others; read, write legibly, speak, and comprehend English.
Ability to perform the duties with or without reasonable accommodation.
Physical presence onsite is essential.
Ability to lift 20 pounds occasionally and frequently lift and/or carry objects weighing up to 10 to 20 pounds.
Ability to walk, stand, climb ladders, push, pull, and perform manual dexterity tasks.
Ability to balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, reach, handle, feel, talk, hear, and see.
Ability to wear common protective or safety equipment and work with exposure to human body fluids, disease, infection, laboratory chemicals, and hazardous material.
Ability to speak clearly and reason and express ideas to groups of people; hearing and vision must be normal or corrected to within normal range.

Nice To Haves

High school diploma or GED is preferred.

Responsibilities

Clean assigned areas daily, following the eight-step cleaning procedure or other applicable procedures.
Clean occupied and discharged patient rooms, including walls, doors and frames, ceilings, furnishings, and windows; refinish and burnish floors when required.
Dust, damp mop, or vacuum floors as applicable; vacuum and spot-clean carpets.
Collect waste throughout the hospital, routinely clean waste receptacles, and clean the compactor area.
Collect soiled linen and distribute clean linen.
Move and arrange furniture and equipment in an orderly fashion after cleaning assigned areas.
Request cleaning supplies and equipment as needed, return unused supplies to the housekeeping closet, and clean carts and equipment.
Operate mechanical and electrical cleaning equipment, including buffers, wringers, scrubbers, and vacuums.
Report broken furniture or equipment repair needs promptly to supervisors.
Clean and service assigned building areas, including medication storage areas, according to established procedures and schedules.
Maintain secured access to designated medication storage areas when assigned there, and immediately alert the nursing or clinical supervisor if medications are found in an unlocked, unsupervised area.
Provide training to new hires and others assigned to the units.
Meet performance, patient and employee satisfaction, and financial standards; comply with employee handbook requirements and DCH behavioral standards and policies.
Use electronic mail, time-and-attendance software, learning management software, and the intranet.
Perform other duties as assigned.