Floor Care & Facility Support

RML HEALTH PROVIDERS•Chicago, IL

3d•Onsite

About The Position

This role is responsible for cleaning, sanitizing, disinfecting, and servicing patient rooms, clinical treatment areas, and other building areas according to established procedures. The position involves moving furniture, equipment, and supplies, as well as maintaining floors (burnishing, stripping, and waxing) and carpets (vacuuming, spot cleaning, and shampooing). Additional duties include performing other environmental services to maintain the hospital in a neat, orderly, and sanitary condition, providing excellent customer service, and taking charge of the department in the absence of the Director and Supervisor.

Requirements

Ability to positively communicate and interact with patients, visitors, and other employees.
Ability to work independently, without direct supervision.
Physical ability necessary to frequently lift moderate to heavy weights of linen/trash, push carts that are loaded with supplies and/or linens, operate cleaning machinery, and move furniture using appropriate moving equipment.
Physical stamina to repeatedly perform tasks.
Ability to work off-shifts, including weekends and evenings.
One to two years environmental services experience.
Ability to operate all department machinery, including floor care equipment.
Ability to understand oral instructions.
Ability to read and understand written assignments, policies, memos, and SDS sheets.
Ability to write instructions on work orders and inter-shift and inter-departmental communications.

Nice To Haves

One to two years of health care environmental services experience, such as EVS Tech-1.

Responsibilities

Supports the Mission and Vision of RML Specialty Hospital by demonstrating RML's Core Values of Service, Teamwork, Accountability, Integrity, Respect and Stewardship (STAIRS) in all actions.
Promotes a positive patient/customer experience by exemplifying the principles of the Language of Caring in all interactions with patients, families and co-workers.
Demonstrates ability to repeatedly and consistently achieve the highest departmental standards for cleanliness, service excellence, and attendance.
Demonstrates ability to perform all departmental cleaning processes according to established policy and complete all responsibilities without direct supervision.
Processes linen and operates floor care machinery.
Performs daily cleaning of patient rooms and patient care units to prevent the spread of infections and to ensure satisfaction of patients and guests.
Follows the established 12-step process when cleaning patient rooms and performing terminal cleaning of patient rooms after discharge.
Cleans assigned offices, departments, meeting rooms, and public areas, including restrooms, floors, furniture, fixtures, doors and door frames, ceilings, medical equipment, televisions, windows and window sills, and other items.
Prepares cleaning solutions as needed according to established policy.
Empties trash and hazardous waste according to established policy.
Replenishes assigned areas with supplies of soap, paper towels, toilet paper, and other disposable items.
Replenishes linen carts, returns soiled linen, and delivers clean linen.
Maintains cleanliness of hospital grounds.
Moves furniture and equipment between rooms.
Sets up furniture and equipment within rooms as needed.
Performs floor care and other “heavy” cleaning when assigned, including burnishing, stripping, and waxing floors, deep cleaning carpets, washing walls, and other assignments.
Completes special environmental services-related projects and other duties as assigned.
Attends internal meetings and in-services and participates in mandatory reviews of policies and procedures.
Completes required paperwork for quality assurance, plant work-orders, and intra-departmental communication.
Takes charge of department, including answering pages, when Director of EVS and EVS Supervisor is not present.