EVS Associate ES

Banner Health•Casa Grande, AZ

3d•Onsite

About The Position

The EVS Associate performs cleaning of patient rooms and/or assigned areas as part of the environmental services team. The role helps maintain a clean, safe, and aesthetically pleasing environment for patients, visitors, and staff while minimizing interference with others. Work is performed under regular supervision at an assigned facility or area. This is a full-time evening-shift position, 40 hours per week, from 2:00 PM to 10:30 PM. Weekend work is required every other weekend, along with holiday rotations. The role is fast-paced and physical, involving substantial walking, pushing a cleaning cart, and using cleaning chemicals. Assignments may include the morgue or other specialty areas and may involve cleaning blood or bodily fluids.

Requirements

Ability to work independently and as part of a team without continuous supervision.
Ability to interpret and respond to verbal and written instructions.
Ability to communicate effectively with others by phone and verbally.
Ability to read and understand material safety data sheets and instructions for mixing and using cleaning chemicals, and to complete chemical identification stickers.
For employees working at the specified Banner behavioral-health locations or clinical settings serving children, an Arizona Fingerprint Clearance Card is required at hire and must be maintained during employment; an Arizona Criminal History Affidavit must be signed upon hire. Employees at Olive Branch Senior Center must also have and maintain an Arizona Fingerprint Clearance Card.
Ability to perform physical work involving substantial walking, pushing a cleaning cart, and using cleaning chemicals; assignments may include cleaning blood or bodily fluids.

Nice To Haves

Previous related experience.
Familiarity with environmental services equipment and cleaning techniques.
Additional related education and/or experience.

Responsibilities

Complete assigned cleaning tasks, including dusting, mopping, scrubbing, disinfecting, vacuuming, and polishing, according to departmental policies and procedures; plan daily task completion.
Empty hampers and transport soiled linen; empty trash and medical waste containers, including sharps containers.
Inventory, restock, and replenish supplies such as toilet tissue, paper towels, and hand soap in assigned areas.
Keep departmental equipment clean, use and protect it properly, log equipment out and in, and notify appropriate personnel when repairs are needed.
Perform special projects as assigned, such as washing windows or walls and removing heavily soiled items or furnishings.
Respond to questions and requests from patients, staff, and visitors, and meet or exceed customer service satisfaction goals.
Work with facility staff, physicians, nurses, patients, visitors, supervisors, managers, and executives, as well as external visitors, patients, and employees from other facilities.