Environmental Services Aide I

Job Summary

As our Environmental Services Aide, you'll clean and maintain assigned areas of the hospital in a sanitary, orderly, and attractive condition to promote a clean and healthy environment for all employees, patients, and guests in accordance with departmental standards.

Responsibilities

• Adhere to proper disposal techniques for biohazard materials, including bodily fluids or sharp objects.
• Apply specialized cleaning techniques to designated rooms and equipment.
• Replenish supplies such as soap, paper towels, and tissues.
• Deliver clean linens to patient rooms.
• Maintain high standards of cleanliness and infection control while following safety protocols and departmental guidelines.
• Consistently provide daily patient room cleaning, including trash removal, high and low dusting, dust mopping, mopping, bathroom cleaning, and replenishing dispensers.
• Provide discharge patient room cleaning including trash removal, sanitizing furniture, high and low dusting, wall washing, the stripping, cleaning and making of the bed, and replenishing supplies.
• Clean common areas and provide routine corridor cleaning in assigned area.
• Follow hospital and department policies and procedures to perform cleaning of support areas (offices, supply areas, nurses' stations, waiting areas, utility rooms, etc.).
• Maintain adequate supplies for standard precautions and properly utilize isolation techniques.
• Handle biohazardous waste properly including the changing of sharps containers.

Requirements

• Required: Fire Safety within 90 days
• PREFERRED: High School Graduate or GED
• Previous experience in healthcare environmental services

Where You'll Work

Founded in 1887, Dignity Health - California Hospital Medical Center is a 318-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in downtown Los Angeles, California. Serving over 100,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including a Level II Trauma Center, Level III NICU, heart care, women’s health, and a family birth center. In 2025, we opened our new patient tower, Grand Tower, featuring a dramatically expanded Emergency Department and Family Birth Center that will increase patient comfort and privacy. Additionally, California Hospital Medical Center has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center, and recently was awarded the AMA/ASA’s Get the Guidelines - Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement, recognizing the hospital’s commitment to providing the best stroke care. California Hospital Medical Center shares a legacy of humankindness with Dignity Health and CommonSpirit Health, one of the nation’s largest health care systems, dedicated to providing compassionate, high-quality, and affordable patient-centered care. One Community. One Mission. One California

Pay Range

$25.00 - $26.11 /hour