EVS TECH I - ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES - FT DAYS (63555)
About The Position
The EVS Tech I performs daily duties to establish and maintain a safe, hygienic, and aesthetically pleasing care environment. The role involves contact with patients, visitors, and clinical and non-clinical staff, with interactions appropriate to the demographics of patients served in assigned areas. The technician supports timely patient room turns while following environmental hygiene and infection-prevention principles. In accordance with organizational quality standards, the EVS Tech I contributes to cleaning, disinfection, infection prevention, and patient experience.
Requirements
- Demonstrate effective use of computers and/or mobile devices for daily job duties.
- Ability to read and follow written and verbal instructions.
- Respectfully listen to the viewpoints and ideas of others.
- Ability to communicate openly and candidly orally or in writing, and foster reciprocal communication among coworkers and team members.
Responsibilities
- Clean and disinfect occupied and discharge/transfer patient care areas, assigned equipment, and other assigned common areas.
- Apply healthcare cleaning and disinfecting principles, safe chemical-use practices, equipment-handling procedures, and labor-saving products while performing assigned tasks.
- Follow organizational safety, risk-management, and infection-control guidelines and standards, and promote a culture of safety.
- Participate in departmental performance-improvement initiatives, including efforts to improve patient experience and cleanliness metrics.
- Keep environmental services carts, supplies, and equipment neat and orderly by properly stocking and restocking them.
- Remove waste and transport it to the appropriate disposal area, identifying and following the correct waste streams, including regulated medical, recycling, solid, and hazardous waste.
- 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.
- Use critical-thinking skills and demonstrate personal accountability.
- Identify and use appropriate resources to ensure problems or concerns are followed through and resolved.
- Demonstrate knowledge of facility safety requirements.
- Operate and properly maintain environmental services tools and equipment used to clean and disinfect the environment.
- Perform specialty tasks as needed, which may include setting up or dismantling conference rooms according to function sheets and schedules, cleaning stairwells and elevators, and hanging cubicle curtains.
- Assist with onboarding new Environmental Services Technicians when asked.
Stand Out From the Crowd
Upload your resume and get instant feedback on how well it matches this job.
What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
