Housekeeper - Environmental Services Technician - Full Time - Days

Wellstar Health System•Marietta, GA

About The Position

This role provides support for regular, terminal, and isolation cleaning and helps maintain compliance standards while cleaning hospital specialty areas, including operating room suites, catheterization labs, GI labs, VARU, pharmacy compounding labs, vascular areas, and labor and delivery suites. Duties also include handling and transporting waste, recyclables, and other regulated materials; using ultraviolet light devices; and replacing waste containers. The position requires customer service and interpersonal skills when interacting with staff, guests, patients, and families. Employees receive training and authorization for duties in their assigned areas. The technician performs restroom and patient-room cleaning according to the protocol for each room or area, follows infection-prevention procedures, selects appropriate cleaning chemicals, and performs routine cleaning of surfaces, furnishings, equipment, and floors. The role also involves proper handling of waste and linen, consistent use of personal protective equipment and safe lifting techniques, and compliance with hospital and department policies. The technician documents daily assignments, adjusts to staffing needs, covers assigned areas, and uses Epic to support bed and patient flow.

Requirements

Ability to speak fluent English and read, write, and understand simple instructions in English.
Successfully complete the Departmental Training Program during the first 30 days of employment.
High school diploma or GED is preferred.
Some experience is preferred.

Nice To Haves

High school diploma or GED.
Some experience.

Responsibilities

Perform restroom and patient-room cleaning, including regular, terminal, and isolation cleaning according to applicable protocols.
Follow infection-prevention protocols and select the proper chemicals for cleaning tasks.
Clean walls, doors, glass and windows, furniture, equipment, and floors, including dust mopping, wet mopping, corners, edges, base coves, and kick plates.
Remove trash and linen and follow handling protocols based on the waste type, including solid, biohazard, chemotherapy, and pharmaceutical waste.
Use appropriate personal protective equipment and proper donning and doffing techniques.
Use proper lifting techniques to help avoid personal injury.
Follow hospital and department rules, policies, and procedures.
Use ultraviolet light equipment safely and according to protocol.
Place the correct type, size, and number of replacement liners in waste containers and tie them off properly.
Greet and support staff, patients, visitors, and guests with a positive disposition and strong customer service and interpersonal skills.
Practice behaviors that support World Class Service.
Work with special project teams and on projects assigned by a supervisor.
Participate in performance-improvement projects as required.
Document completed daily assignments and adjust to staff shortages by covering other assigned areas.
Use Epic as required to maintain productive bed and patient flow, including logging in and out.
Perform other duties as assigned and comply with WellStar Health System policies, standards of work, and code of conduct.