Environmental Technician

TOUCHETTE • Cahokia, IL

3d • $17 - $25 • Onsite

About The Position

The Environmental Technician performs daily housekeeping duties to establish and maintain a safe, hygienic, and aesthetically pleasing care environment in the hospital. The role follows safety, organizational, and departmental procedures and policies, and carries out established cleaning methods under the direction of Environmental Services leadership.

Duties include cleaning patient rooms and other hospital areas, handling routine and terminal room cleaning within specified turnaround times, maintaining surfaces and floors, replenishing supplies, responding to spills, and entering bed-tracking and other required information into a computer. The position is full-time and involves evenings or nights, every other weekend, and rotating holidays.

Requirements

• Training in housekeeping areas such as patient room, office, and restroom cleaning.
• Knowledge of hospital cleaning techniques, including dusting, wet mopping, sanitizing, vacuuming, restroom cleaning, and trash removal.
• Ability to carry out detailed but uncomplicated written or oral instructions using common sense and to address problems involving a few concrete variables in or from standardized situations.
• Ability to understand and carry out oral and written common-sense instructions.
• Ability to stand for 4 to 8 hours.
• Ability to frequently lift, push, or pull up to 50 pounds and transport heavy linen carts.
• Ability to use all floor-care equipment.
• Ability to withstand extreme temperatures.

Nice To Haves

• High school diploma or GED equivalent.
• One to six months of experience in a healthcare setting.

Responsibilities

• Observe and follow safety, organizational, and departmental procedures and policies.
• Perform housekeeping duties using established methods.
• Clean patient rooms, offices, restrooms, janitor closets, storerooms, exam rooms, delivery rooms, operating rooms, and clinics using approved cleaning methods.
• Follow directives from Environmental Services leadership.
• Report to the department office to receive an assignment, collect necessary equipment and supplies, and proceed to the work area.
• High-dust and low-dust horizontal surfaces; sanitize and spot-clean horizontal surfaces.
• Damp-wipe and clean furniture.
• Perform checkout room cleaning.
• Spot-clean walls and windows and polish metal surfaces.
• Vacuum carpets and sweep or mop floors in patient rooms and other areas.
• Spot-clean carpet as assigned.
• Assist with cleaning emergency spills, whether observed or upon request.
• Demonstrate correct use of chemicals and supplies.
• Replenish supplies.
• Enter bed-tracking and other required information into the computer daily or as needed.
• Learn and apply the principles of regular discharge cleaning with a 30-minute turnaround.
• Learn and apply the principles of terminal cleaning with a 55-minute turnaround.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

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