Environmental Services Worker

Ferry County Health•Republic, WA

4d•$18 - $28•Onsite

About The Position

Ferry County Health is the sole Critical Access Hospital serving Ferry County in Northeast Washington, delivering essential, high-quality healthcare to a geographically remote and tightly connected rural community. As a cornerstone of regional care, the organization provides a full continuum of services—including 24/7 emergency care, primary and family medicine, rehabilitation therapy, transitional swing bed, and skilled nursing—ensuring patients can receive comprehensive care close to home. The Environmental Services Worker position involves cleaning all areas of the district according to policies and procedures and participating in performance improvement activities.

Requirements

High school diploma/GED equivalent preferred.

Nice To Haves

High school diploma/GED equivalent

Responsibilities

Performs all assigned tasks in a professional manner in order to reflect the highest integrity of the Environmental Services Department.
Performs routine cleaning of patient rooms, nursing units, offices, clinical areas, waiting areas, lobbies, lounges, rest rooms, corridors, elevators and stairways in a clean, neat and sanitary manner.
Completes work assignments in a timely manner.
Utilizes the appropriate chemicals and supplies according to procedure.
Uses and maintains equipment properly.
Assists visitors with directions whenever requested.
Always introduces self to patients, families and visitors.
Reports safety hazards as appropriate.
Transports trash and hazardous waste to appropriate disposal area.
Replenishes supplies.
Follows all infection prevention and control practices, including Standard Precautions, Transmission-Based Precautions and hand hygiene.
Maintains set quality standards when performing job duties.
Works day, evening or night shift as assigned.
Ability to do work on his/her own with normal supervision.
Observes safety precautions at all times.
Maintains and ensures age-specific precautions.
Performs all aspects of assigned tasks in a manner that optimizes patient safety and reduces the likelihood of medical/health care errors.
Supports and maintains a culture of safety and quality.
Able to apply commonsense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.
Able to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
Perform related duties as assigned by management.
Loads articles into washer and adds specified amount of detergent, soap or other cleaning agent.
Starts machine that automatically washes and rinses articles.
Lifts clean, wet articles from washer and places them successively into wringers and dryers for measured time cycles.
Sorts dried articles according to identification numbers or type. Folds and places items in appropriate storage bins.
Washes and sorts residents’ personal laundry and gowns.
Makes up and sets up linen carts for all three shifts with proper amounts of linen.
Hangs resident’s personal clothing on racks according to resident’s room number.
Marks or otherwise identifies resident and facility laundry with departmental or individual identification.
Sorts articles into groups according to the laundry treatments each will receive.
Stores and issues clean linen from the clean linen room.
Issues clean linens to proper linen closets.
Segregates worn, stained or otherwise imperfect articles.
Lubricates machines.
Dissolves soap granules in hot water and steam to make liquid soap.
Mends torn articles. Sorts and counts articles to verify quantities on laundry lists.
Soaks contaminated articles as per policy.
Mixes dyes and bleaches according to formula.
Able to read and understand equipment operation manuals.