Housekeeper I

Summary

Job Description:

Housekeeper I

• The Environmental Service Technician I is responsible for executing the daily duties required to establish and maintain a safe, hygienic, and aesthetically pleasing care environment
• While executing the assigned tasks, the EVS Tech will have contact with patients, visitors, and clinical and non-clinical staff. Contact may include physical, psychological, educational, and safety related and should be appropriate to the specific demographics of patients served in assigned service areas
• Responsible for ensuring timely room turns related to patient throughput within the basic principles of environmental hygiene and infection prevention. The environmental services technician, in accordance with organizational standards of quality, is an essential contributor to cleaning, disinfection, infection prevention and patient experience.
• Performs duties while demonstrating working knowledge of the health care cleaning and disinfecting principles and requirements, proper and safe chemical use, equipment handling, and labor-saving products for all items within the healthcare environment for which tasked with servicing.
• Assumes responsibility for daily occupied and discharge/transfer cleaning and disinfection of patient care areas, equipment as assigned and other common areas of assignment.
• Follows all infection prevention practices (i.e. proper cleaning and disinfection protocols and process, hand hygiene, standard & isolation precautions, as well as proper donning and doffing of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
• Requirements:
• High School diploma or GED equivalent preferred.

• 1-2 years of Customer Service, 1-2 years of Hospitality, and/or 1-2 years of Environmental Services experience preferred.
• Benefits:

• Health Vision Dental & Pet Insurance
• Retirement with Company Match
• Generous Paid Time Off (Including Maternity, Paternity leave)
• Short/Long Term Disability and Life Insurance
• Tuition Reimbursement

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