EVS Lead Housekeeper/Floor Tech

Pinnacle Health Services • Voorhees, NJ

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The Environmental Services EVS Working Lead Housekeeper assigns tasks, ensures work is completed to standards, inspects completed work, and ensures work rules and procedures are followed. The role trains new team members, supports and guides associates, motivates the team, and monitors team performance. It also performs cleaning and disinfecting in exam rooms, patient care areas, laboratories, nurses’ stations, equipment, common areas, and other assigned areas to help maintain a safe, hygienic, and aesthetically pleasing care environment.

The position involves contact with patients, visitors, and clinical and non-clinical staff. The employee is responsible for timely room turns in support of patient throughput, while following environmental hygiene and infection prevention principles. The role contributes to cleaning, disinfection, infection prevention, and patient experience in accordance with organizational quality standards. It performs quality improvement initiatives under the direction of the EVS Manager and participates in departmental improvement efforts, including those related to patient experience and cleanliness metrics.

The employee maintains and restocks cleaning carts, supplies, and equipment; handles waste according to the appropriate disposal stream; follows infection prevention practices and patient privacy requirements; and oversees inventories, usage data, supply orders, and equipment repairs. The role may also perform specialty tasks based on facility needs, such as setting up or dismantling conference rooms, cleaning stairwells and elevators, and hanging cubicle curtains.

Schedule: Monday through Friday, 1:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Location: Voorhees, New Jersey. Pay: $18.00 per hour. Lead EVS and floor tech/care experience is required. Required after hire are a physical, a PPD (TB test), blood testing for antibodies for measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox, and hepatitis B, COVID vaccination, and a flu shot.

Requirements

• Lead EVS experience.
• Floor tech/care experience.
• A physical is required upon hire.
• PPD (TB test) is required upon hire.
• Blood draw to check for antibodies for measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox, and hepatitis B is required upon hire.
• COVID vaccination is required.
• Flu shot is required.
• Ability to follow healthcare cleaning, disinfection, safety, infection prevention, waste-handling, and patient privacy procedures.

Responsibilities

• Assign tasks, ensure work is completed to standards, inspect work, and ensure work rules and procedures are followed.
• Train new team members and provide associates with support and guidance.
• Motivate team members and monitor team performance.
• Clean and disinfect exam rooms, patient care areas, laboratories, nurses’ stations, equipment, common areas, and other assigned areas.
• Ensure timely room turns in support of patient throughput and environmental hygiene and infection prevention.
• Perform quality improvement initiatives under the direction of the EVS Manager and participate in departmental performance improvement initiatives.
• Apply healthcare cleaning and disinfecting principles, safe chemical use, equipment handling, and labor-saving products.
• Follow organizational safety, risk management, infection control, and infection prevention practices, including hand hygiene, standard and isolation precautions, and proper PPE use.
• Maintain, stock, and restock environmental services carts, supplies, and equipment in an organized manner.
• Remove and transport waste to the appropriate disposal area while following proper waste-stream handling.
• Recognize and follow patient privacy requirements, including HIPAA.
• Maintain furniture, furnishings, and interior finishes using appropriate cleaning, chemical, and equipment practices.
• Oversee inventories, usage data, ordering of consumable supplies, and equipment repairs.
• Provide on-site training for new EVS associates.
• Use critical thinking, demonstrate personal accountability, and follow through on identified problems or concerns using appropriate resources.
• Demonstrate knowledge of facility safety requirements and properly operate and maintain EVS tools and equipment.
• Perform specialty tasks as needed, including conference room setup and dismantling, stairwell and elevator cleaning, and hanging cubicle curtains.

Benefits

• Full-time employees working 30 or more hours per week are eligible for medical, dental, vision, and other ancillary benefits.
• All employees, full-time and part-time, may participate in the company 401(k) with an employer match.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed