Environmental Services Tech
About The Position
Where You’ll Work Mercy Hospital is an 82 bed, acute care hospital located in the scenic southwestern Colorado town of Durango. It is the only hospital in Colorado to be rated by Medicare with five stars for overall hospital quality. It is recognized for excellence in orthopedic and spine surgery and for outstanding patient experience and patient safety. Mercy has also received ten consecutive 'A' grades for patient safety from The Leapfrog Group. Our providers use state-of-the-art technology in an environment designed to promote wellbeing and healing of body, mind, and spirit. Among the many specialty services available at Mercy are emergency care (Level III trauma designation), surgical care, cardiac care (including interventional), Orthopedic and Spine Centers of Excellence, a Family Birthing Center, home care, hospice care and more. Durango offers an exceptional quality of life with small town charm, excellent schools, and year-round, world-class outdoor recreation opportunities including snow sports, river sports, hiking, biking, camping and more. Job Summary and Responsibilities You have a purpose, unique talents and NOW is the time to embrace it, live it and put it to work. We value incredible people with incredible skills – but your commitment to a greater cause is something we value even more. This is the heartbeat of our organization and your time will be spent in a supportive, team environment with resources to help you flourish and leaders who care about your success. As an Environmental Service Specialist with us you are essential to ensuring every patient, associate and visitor has an exceptional experience. We hire for a variety of roles that function to provide clean surroundings, beautiful indoor/outdoor spaces and create delicious meals to nurture every life we touch - body, mind and spirit. This Environmental Service role will be responsible for: Maintaining safe and clean environments for patients, staff, and visitors by primarily cleaning procedural areas that are established by the department. Providing excellent customer services when working with patients, visitors and other staff members, and that as a Environmental professional you will have industry knowledge in the cleaning of specific departments such as the Emergency Department, Operating Rooms and other unique procedural areas.
Requirements
- Strong communication skills; ability to read, write and speak English.
- Must possess basic computer skills.
- Can distinguish the differences between levels of disinfection and perform low and intermediate level disinfection.
- Ability to explain orally or in writing the differences between levels of disinfection and perform intermediate level disinfection in areas where required.
- Ability to operate necessary equipment/machines
- Effectively uses computers and mobile devices.
- Respectfully listens to viewpoints and ideas of others.
- Communicates orally or in writing openly and candidly, creates an environment where co-workers and team members reciprocate in kind.
- Respectfully listens to viewpoints and ideas of others.
- Ability to work without close supervision.
- Physical Requirements - Medium Work - (Exert up to 50lbs force occasionally, and/or up to 20lbs frequently, and/or up to 10lbs constantly)
Responsibilities
- Maintaining safe and clean environments for patients, staff, and visitors by primarily cleaning procedural areas that are established by the department.
- Providing excellent customer services when working with patients, visitors and other staff members, and that as a Environmental professional you will have industry knowledge in the cleaning of specific departments such as the Emergency Department, Operating Rooms and other unique procedural areas.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
