Environmental Technician I

Orlando Health•Lakeland, FL

About The Position

The Environmental Services Technician Level I executes daily duties to establish and maintain a safe, clean, healing environment. The role ensures daily room cleaning and timely room turnaround to support patient throughput while following basic environmental hygiene and infection prevention principles. In accordance with organizational quality standards, the technician contributes to cleaning, disinfection, infection prevention, and customer experience.

Responsibilities

Respond to common customer inquiries or complaints using appropriate designated engagement techniques.
Clean and disinfect patient rooms and ancillary areas, including bathrooms, public areas, corridors, and medication storage rooms as directed, using designated chemicals and cleaning procedures.
Access and use department technology systems, including Bed Management systems, and maintain working knowledge of them.
Replenish supplies; remove biomedical waste, trash, and soiled linen; and change cubicle or window curtains as needed.
Clean patient rooms and bathrooms daily to accommodate discharges and admissions and meet cleanliness standards, using approved procedures and Bed Management systems where applicable.
Apply healthcare cleaning and disinfection principles, safe chemical-use practices, equipment-handling practices, and labor-saving products to assigned items in the healthcare environment.
Follow organizational safety, risk management, and infection control guidelines and standards, and promote a culture of safety.
Operate the UV disinfection machine as needed.
Participate in departmental performance-improvement initiatives, including efforts to improve customer experience and cleanliness metrics.
Follow infection prevention practices, including cleaning and disinfection protocols, hand hygiene, standard and isolation precautions, and proper donning and doffing of PPE.
Recognize and follow patient privacy requirements under HIPAA.
Report unsafe situations and submit Engineering Service Requests for repairs.
Communicate, read, and write in standard English.
Maintain reasonably regular and punctual attendance consistent with applicable organizational policies and laws.
Maintain compliance with Orlando Health policies and procedures.
Use computers and/or mobile devices effectively for daily job activities and follow through on identified problems or concerns using appropriate resources.
Demonstrate knowledge of facility safety requirements.
Operate and properly maintain EVS tools and equipment needed to clean and disinfect the environment.
Set up and dismantle beds for cleaning according to department procedures.
Complete other tasks assigned by EVS leadership.
Communicate openly and candidly, orally or in writing, to support reciprocal communication among coworkers and team members.
Respectfully listen to the viewpoints and ideas of others.