EVS Lead

Banner Health•Mesa, AZ

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The EVS Lead provides leadership and training for environmental services associates while also working as part of the EVS Associate team. The role helps lead the shift, serves as a resource for team members, and supports consistent service delivery across Environmental Services and Linen operations. The position works in a fast-paced, physical hospital environment and involves walking, pushing a cleaning cart, using cleaning chemicals, and potentially cleaning specialty areas such as the morgue and areas contaminated with blood or other bodily fluids. The EVS Lead helps ensure appropriate staffing across facility areas, coordinates hospital-wide cleaning projects with a supervisor, performs cleaning, assists with quality assurance inspections, distributes linens and supplies, and takes inventories. The role may supervise staff when the Environmental Services leader is absent and makes assignments or reallocates staff in response to facility needs. The position works independently under general supervision and oversees the daily activities of a team of Environmental Services Associates. This is a full-time day-shift position scheduled Wednesday through Sunday, 7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., at Banner Desert Medical Center in Mesa, Arizona.

Requirements

Two or more years of related work experience in healthcare environmental services.
Leadership skills.
Effective verbal and written communication skills.
Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
Ability to model customer service, safe work practices, and infection control, including hand hygiene.
For employees in the specified Banner behavioral health settings serving children, an Arizona Fingerprint Clearance Card is required at hire and must be maintained during employment.
For employees in the specified Banner behavioral health settings serving children, an Arizona Criminal History Affidavit must be signed upon hire.

Nice To Haves

Basic computer skills in word processing and electronic mail.
Additional related education and/or experience.

Responsibilities

Ensure staffing plans are carried out and hospital or facility areas are appropriately staffed.
Plan hospital-wide projects with the supervisor and support consistent service delivery in Environmental Services and Linen operations.
Provide the supervisor with input on the quality and timeliness of environmental services staff work.
Clean patient rooms, specialty areas, and common areas.
Help train, retrain, recruit, retain, and develop Environmental Services team members.
Serve as a role model for departmental and company values and operational policies.
Supervise staff when the Environmental Services leader is absent.
Make work assignments and reassign staff to facility areas as needed.
Move furniture and set up rooms for meetings and special functions.
Assist the supervisor with quality assurance inspections and correction of deficiencies.
Distribute linens and supplies and take inventories in assigned areas.
Oversee the daily activities of a team of Environmental Services Associates.
Coordinate assigned cleaning projects, assist with on-the-job training, and provide input to performance evaluations.