Housekeeper - Environmental Services Technician - Nights - PRN As Needed - Austell

2510 Cobb Hospital, Inc.•Mableton, GA

13d•Onsite

About The Position

The Housekeeper provides support for regular, terminal, and isolation cleaning at Cobb Medical Center. The role helps maintain compliance standards while cleaning hospital specialty areas, including operating room suites, catheterization labs, GI labs, VARU, the pharmacy compounding lab, 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 sharps, pharmacy waste, bio-hazard, and chemotherapy containers. The Housekeeper is trained and authorized to perform duties in assigned areas and interacts with staff, patients, visitors, and families. This is a PRN as-needed, non-benefited night position with a stated shift of 11:00 p.m. to 7:30 a.m. The schedule is Monday through Friday and every other weekend.

Requirements

Ability to speak fluent English and read, write, and understand simple instructions in English.
Complete the Departmental Training Program within the first 30 days of employment.
Customer service and interpersonal skills for interacting with staff, patients, visitors, and families.
High school diploma or GED is preferred.
Some experience is preferred.

Nice To Haves

High school diploma or GED.
Some experience.

Responsibilities

Clean restrooms and patient rooms according to the applicable regular, terminal, or isolation cleaning protocols.
Follow infection-prevention protocols and select appropriate cleaning chemicals for assigned tasks.
Perform routine cleaning and maintenance of 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 and follow handling protocols for each waste stream, including solid, bio-hazard, chemotherapy, and pharmaceutical waste.
Use appropriate personal protective equipment and proper donning and doffing techniques.
Use proper lifting techniques to help prevent personal injury.
Comply with hospital and department rules, policies, and procedures.
Follow protocols for safe and proper use of ultraviolet light equipment.
Place the correct type, size, and number of replacement liners in waste containers and tie them off as required.
Work with special project teams and complete projects assigned by the supervisor.
Participate in performance-improvement projects as required.
Greet and support staff, patients, and visitors with a positive disposition and provide effective customer service.
Document completed daily assignments, adjust to staff shortages, and cover other assigned areas.
Use Epic to maintain productive bed and patient flow and log in and out as required.
Properly remove, place, and transport waste, recyclables, and regulated materials; use ultraviolet light devices; and change, remove, and replace sharps, pharmacy waste, bio-hazard, and chemotherapy containers.