Environmental Services Technician

Geisinger • Wilkes-Barre, PA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Performs a variety of healthcare environmental services (EVS) duties to enhance the healthcare environment by maintaining the location assigned. Follows special healthcare cleaning and trash handling techniques as required, ensuring professional and appropriate service standards while performing the job. Ensures the very best patient/family/ customer experience by optimizing all customer interactions. Join our EVS team and play a critical role in hospital cleanliness! This position is responsible for OR/Surgical Cleaning - a specialized EVS team responsible for the rigorous cleaning and disinfection of the physical healthcare environment - managing sterile environments and preventing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). EVS provides healthcare environmental services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, including weekends and holidays. We clean and disinfect both patient and non-patient areas, helping to prevent communicable diseases by thoroughly cleaning and disinfecting public areas, hospital office and administrative areas, patient rooms, restrooms and hallways.

Requirements

• Minimum of 1 year-Related work experience
• High School Diploma or Equivalent (GED)
• Certified Healthcare Environmental Services Technician (CHEST) - Association for the Healthcare Environment
• Communication
• Disease Management
• Healthcare Regulatory Environment
• Infection Control
• Spill Management
• Teamwork

Responsibilities

• Cleans and disinfects patient and non-patient facing areas, departments and spaces.
• Handles various waste streams to include but not limited to; municipal waste and recyclable waste.
• Wears standard personal protective equipment as required.
• Follows procedures for the proper use of hospital approved products utilized in the cleaning and disinfection processes.
• Places the appropriate signage in an area to indicate cleaning is occurring and floor is wet to reduce the risk of falls.
• Reports identified facility repairs as directed or observed, according to current established policy or procedure.
• Utilizes mobile technology to ensure compliance with bed management procedures and other environmental services functions that are performed daily.
• Performs detailed cleaning to include but not limited to; high dusting, walls, ceilings, tracks, vents and lights.
• Collects soiled linen and transports to hospital staging area for vendor pickup as applicable.
• All EVS Staff who enter Medication Rooms (Where Applicable) must receive mandatory education on proper Medication Room protocol.

Benefits

• Sign-on Bonus up to $2,500 for eligible candidates.
• $2.00 shift differential for evening and night shifts.
• Competitive compensation and benefits packages.
• Education and professional development including the nationally recognized CHEST certification (Certified Healthcare Environmental Services Technician).
• Healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and domestic partners.
• Atmosphere of collaboration, cooperation and collegiality.

What This Job Offers

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