Make a Difference Behind the Scenes of Patient Care

At Destiny Springs Healthcare, our Environmental Services team plays an essential role in creating a clean, safe, and welcoming environment for our patients, employees, and visitors. We are looking for a dependable, hardworking Environmental Services Technician who takes pride in their work and understands that cleanliness in a healthcare setting is about much more than appearance. It is an important part of infection prevention, patient safety, and quality care.

If you enjoy staying active, working as part of a team, and knowing that the work you do each day directly supports patients and healthcare professionals, we would love to hear from you.

Shift: 2:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.

Position Summary:

The Environmental Services Technician maintains environmental and infection control standards within established policies and procedures of the health care center. The position performs a variety of general cleaning, disinfecting, linen distribution, and biohazard cleanup tasks to maintain patient rooms, offices, hallways, bathrooms, and other assigned areas of the facility. The position distributes and tracks clean linens to user departments and maintains stock levels on nursing floors. The position follows standard practices and procedures and complies with regulatory, infection control, and safety requirements.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Dusts furniture, woodwork and equipment and dust-mops floors. Polishes and cleans fixtures in rooms and bathrooms.

Operates mechanical floor cleaners, buffers, vacuums, snow blowers, shampooers and related environmental service equipment.

Gathers and disposes of trash and waste materials using specified bags or containers.

Assists with cleaning, disinfecting, and proper disposal of vomit, bodily fluids, and other biohazardous materials in accordance with infection control, safety, and facility procedures.

Moves furniture and other heavy objects as required.

Performs terminal cleaning procedures of patient rooms and prepares rooms for new occupants; follows isolation procedures in isolation rooms.

Cleans and disinfects all fixtures, floors, mirrors, windows, doors and walls of bathrooms.

Makes supply packs for departments and puts linen stacks in carts for distribution. Takes supply requests and delivers them.

Delivers linens to departments according to pre-established par levels and schedules. Distributes emergency supplies as needed.

Keeps records of linen distribution by department; checks floor linen supplies and lists linen use by department.

Keeps work areas neat and orderly, cleans equipment and assists with other cleaning duties as assigned.

Assists with evacuations, when needed.

Conform with and abide by all regulations, policies, work procedures and instructions.

Uses required personal protective equipment and follows standard precautions, infection control procedures, and bloodborne pathogen safety practices when performing cleaning, disinfecting, and biohazard cleanup duties.

Perform other duties as assigned.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles, cleaning chemicals, disinfectants, moving mechanical parts, and vibration. The employee may also be exposed to infectious materials, bodily fluids, bloodborne pathogens, biohazardous waste, and other materials requiring the use of standard precautions and appropriate personal protective equipment. The employee is occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling and climbing all day.

The employee must frequently lift and move items over 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

TRAVEL:

This position is an onsite position and does not require travel.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY:

This position has no supervisory responsibility.

COMPETENCIES:

Comprehensive knowledge of environmental service functions. Performance Management. Ethical Conduct. Communication Proficiency. Personal Effectiveness/Credibility/Integrity.

REQUIRED EDUCATION / EXPERIENCE:

High school diploma or equivalent work experience required.

Two years of hospital/commercial cleaning experience preferred