Housekeeper - Environmental Services Technician - Full Time - Nights

Wellstar Health System•Marietta, GA

About The Position

The Housekeeper - Environmental Services Technician provides cleaning and environmental services support in a hospital, including regular, terminal, and isolation cleaning. The role helps maintain compliance standards in specialty areas such as operating room suites, catheterization labs, GI labs, VARU, pharmacy compounding labs, vascular areas, and labor and delivery suites. Employees are trained and authorized to perform duties in their assigned areas. The position also involves handling and transporting waste, recyclables, and regulated materials; using ultraviolet light equipment; and replacing waste containers. Strong customer service and interpersonal skills are important for interacting with staff, patients, visitors, and families. This is a full-time night position, scheduled 11:00 p.m. to 7:30 a.m.

Requirements

Ability to speak fluent English and to read, write, and understand simple instructions in English.
Complete the departmental training program within the first 30 days of employment.

Nice To Haves

High school diploma or GED is preferred.
Some experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

Perform restroom and patient-room cleaning according to the appropriate protocol, including regular, terminal, and isolation cleaning.
Follow infection-prevention protocols and select appropriate cleaning chemicals.
Clean and maintain walls, doors, glass and windows, furniture, equipment, and floors, including dust mopping, wet mopping, and cleaning corners, edges, base coves, and kick plates.
Remove trash and linen according to the applicable waste-stream guidelines and protocols.
Use required personal protective equipment and proper donning and doffing techniques.
Use proper lifting techniques.
Comply with hospital and department rules, policies, and procedures.
Use ultraviolet light equipment according to safety protocols.
Place the correct type, size, and number of replacement liners in waste containers and tie them off properly.
Greet and support staff, patients, and visitors with a positive disposition and provide strong customer service.
Support World Class Service efforts through appropriate service skills and behaviors.
Work on special projects or with project teams as assigned by a supervisor.
Participate in performance-improvement projects as required.
Document completed daily assignments and adjust to staffing shortages by covering other assigned areas.
Use Epic to maintain productive patient and bed flow, logging in and out as required.
Properly remove, place, and transport solid, chemotherapy, biohazard, pharmaceutical, and hot waste, as well as recyclables and other regulated materials.
Change, remove, and replace sharps, pharmacy-waste, biohazard, and chemotherapy-waste containers.
Perform other duties as assigned.
Comply with WellStar Health System policies, standards of work, and code of conduct.