Environmental Service Aide

Responsibilities

• Cleans walls, floors, equipment, bath areas, furniture, ceilings, elevators, staircases, windows and blinds, restrooms, vents, light fixtures using universal precautions and appropriate equipment.
• Coordinates with the nursing staff and supervisor to clean occupied rooms first, check empty rooms, and attend to emergency cleaning for spills.
• Cleans patient rooms daily, damp mops or vacuums floors, and spot cleans stains.
• Dusts furniture, ledges, and bed tables and removes debris.
• Empties, washes, and relines wastebaskets.
• Washes walls and windows.
• Uses appropriate chemicals and techniques when washing and cleaning restrooms.
• Washes basins, commodes, tubs, and showers, checking and cleaning mirrors, soap dishes, water pipes and exterior surfaces.
• Dusts ledges, damp mops floors, and washes walls.
• Empties and relines wastebaskets.
• Refills toilet tissue, paper towels, and soap dispensers.
• Performs periodic cleaning of high ledges, ceiling and light fixtures, and vents.
• Cleans doors and parts of showers and commodes subject to mineral deposit.
• Dry and damp mops or machine scrubs corridors and elevator landings, according to assigned schedule.
• Sweeps stairwells and washes corridor and landing walls.
• As needed or assigned, bonnet cleans or extracts carpeted areas.
• Checks equipment condition upon sign out and cleans equipment upon return, reporting any needed maintenance or repair.
• Assists in meeting setups, hanging curtains, picking up trash, hazardous waste, and recyclable trash.
• Washes trash containers in assigned areas.
• Maintains all floors. Maintains all carpets.
• Sets up meetings, hangs curtains, and checks the condition of the equipment.
• Attends all required safety training programs and can describe his or her responsibilities related to general safety, department/service safety, and specific job-related hazards.
• Responsible for following the hospital exposure control plans/bloodborne and airborne pathogens.
• Promotes effective working relations and works effectively as part of a department/unit team inter- and intradepartmentally to facilitate the department’s/unit’s ability to meet its goals and objectives.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED (preferred)
• Successful completion of ARH Housekeeping Orientation Program (32 hours) upon hire