Project Coordinator, DL Preferred EVS

Heywood Hospital•Gardner, MA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Heywood Healthcare values its employees and offers competitive wages, great benefits, and generous earned time off. This is a 40-hour per week position, typically working days from 7:00 am to 3:30 pm, with every other weekend and every other holiday rotation. The role involves cleaning duties within the hospital or its outbuildings. A good driving record is preferred but not required. Flexibility to cover other shifts for vacation coverage is also needed. The position emphasizes a friendly, courteous, and respectful approach to interactions, offering assistance to others, and maintaining a clean and safe hospital environment. It requires appropriate and immediate response in emergency situations, ensuring a safe and healthy environment for patients, visitors, and staff, and minimizing risks and injuries. Compliance with regulations for accreditation and licensure, as well as hospital attendance policies and mandatory training, is expected. Employees are responsible for hand hygiene compliance and working collaboratively with teams to complete assignments. This role involves identifying and removing safety hazards, maintaining equipment, managing inventory of supplies for projects, and coordinating projects to meet customer satisfaction and completion without incident. It also includes evaluating and communicating areas in need of projects to department managers and other staff. The Project Coordinator must demonstrate safe project work, using appropriate chemicals and techniques, and communicate specific cleaning needs to their supervisor. Tasks must be completed thoroughly and on time. The role requires flexibility to cover other tasks and adjust schedules as needed to ensure all areas are covered and a clean, safe environment is maintained. This includes revising project schedules for snow coverage during winter months. A key aspect is ensuring a safe environment for patients, particularly by securing potentially harmful objects and preventing falls, slips, and trips. Sensitivity to elderly patients' potential hearing difficulties and appropriate communication loudness are also important. The role also involves ensuring the physical security of children and complying with policies to prevent abduction.

Requirements

High School Diploma preferred
Driver's License preferred and ability to provide a good driving record preferred.
Previous health care experience preferred.
Applicant needs to be a self motivator and work with minimal supervision.
20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
Frequently reaches (extending hands and arms in any direction), and handles (seizing, holding, grasping, turning or working with hands).
Frequently stoops (bending the body downward and forward by bending the spine at the waist).

Nice To Haves

Good Driving record preferred but not a requirement.
Floor maintenance experience a plus but not necessary.

Responsibilities

Conducts interactions with everyone in a friendly, courteous and respectful manner.
Goes out of his/her way to offer assistance to others. If he/she cannot offer assistance, then finds someone who can.
Advocates to ensure privacy and confidentiality while helping others to maintain awareness.
Maintains a clean and safe hospital.
Responds appropriately and immediately in emergency situations.
Maintains a safe and healthy environment for patients, visitors, and/or staff to provide the highest level of physical comfort, and minimize risk and injury.
Ensures compliance with regulations to maintain accreditation and licensure.
Complies with the Hospital Attendance and Tardiness Policy.
Completed all Hospital and Department Specific Mandatory requirements in the prior calendar year.
Reports Incidents in a timely and effective manner.
All employees with direct patient contact are responsible for actively engaging in the practice of, monitoring and enforcing compliance to hand hygiene.
Works together with departmental and healthcare teams to complete assignments.
Removes or arranges for removal of safety hazards from environment immediately to prevent potential safety hazards from occurring.
Keeps equipment in clean and working condition.
Conducts and maintains the proper supply of inventory for products, so that projects are able to be completed regularly without shortages of supplies.
Coordinates projects so that customer satisfaction levels are met and projects are completed without incident.
Evaluates and communicates with department managers and other appropriate staff members throughout the facility of areas within their department in need of projects.
Demonstrates ability to perform project work safely, using appropriate chemicals and proper techniques.
Communicates specific cleaning needs to supervisor by the end of the scheduled shift.
Completes tasks thoroughly and in designated timeframe.
Reorganizes to cover other tasks and changes schedules as needed so that all areas are covered and a clean and safe environment is maintained.
Revises the project schedule in winter months to accommodate snow coverage.
Maintains a safe environment for patients by assuring that sharp objects, toxic substances and other objects potentially harmful to children are not accessible.
Assures that the environment of care or services is free of objects which may contribute to the likelihood of patient falls, slips or trips.
Makes readily available assistive devices for ambulation.
Is aware of the increased risk of falls, slips, and trips for elderly patients and visitors, and assures that the environment of care or services is free of objects and spills which may contribute to the likelihood of patient falls, slips, or trips.
Is sensitive to the tendency of older patients to have hearing difficulties. Verifies that he or she is speaking with appropriate level of loudness so that the patient hears instructions, questions, and conversations with caregiver, but that offense is not given to the patient as the result of the voice being excessively loud.
Is able to differentiate problems with hearing versus problems with comprehension.
Takes appropriate actions to assure physical security of children and complies with policies and procedures related to the prevention of neonate, infant and child abduction.