Housekeeper - Environmental Services Technician - Days - Full Time
About The Position
The Housekeeper provides support for routine, terminal, and isolation cleaning, including maintaining compliance standards in hospital specialty areas such as operating room suites, catheterization labs, GI labs, VARU, pharmacy compounding labs, vascular areas, and labor and delivery suites. Duties also include the safe handling and transport of various waste streams, recyclables, and regulated materials; use of ultraviolet light devices; and replacement of sharps, pharmacy waste, bio-hazard, and chemotherapy waste containers. The role involves interaction with staff, guests, patients, and families and requires completing assigned duties after training and authorization. The position performs restroom and patient-room cleaning; follows infection prevention and cleaning protocols; selects and uses appropriate chemicals and personal protective equipment; maintains surfaces, furniture, equipment, and floors; and handles trash and linen according to waste-stream procedures. The Housekeeper documents daily assignments, adjusts to staffing needs by covering assigned areas, uses Epic to support bed and patient flow, participates in teamwork and performance-improvement activities, and complies with hospital and department policies, standards, and code of conduct.
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.
- Good customer service and interpersonal skills for interactions with staff, patients, visitors, guests, and families.
- Consistently use proper personal protective equipment and lifting techniques.
Nice To Haves
- High school diploma or GED preferred.
- Some experience preferred.
Responsibilities
- Clean restrooms and patient rooms, including routine, terminal, and isolation cleaning, according to applicable protocols.
- Follow infection-prevention procedures and select appropriate cleaning chemicals.
- Perform routine cleaning and maintenance of walls, doors, glass and windows, furniture, equipment, and floors.
- Remove and transport trash and linen in accordance with requirements for each waste stream, including solid, bio-hazard, chemotherapy, and pharmaceutical waste.
- Use appropriate personal protective equipment and safe donning and doffing techniques.
- Use proper lifting techniques.
- Follow protocols for safe use of ultraviolet light equipment.
- Replace waste-container liners with the proper type, size, and quantity, and tie them off as required.
- Greet and support staff, patients, visitors, guests, and family members with a positive disposition and strong customer service.
- Work on special projects and participate in performance-improvement projects as assigned or required.
- Document completed daily assignments and adjust to staffing shortages by covering other assigned areas.
- Use Epic and log in and out as required to support the productive flow of beds and patients.
- Comply with hospital and department rules, policies, procedures, standards of work, and code of conduct.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
