Environmental Services Aide I (Custodial/Housekeeping) Evenings

About the role

The Environmental Services Aide is responsible for maintaining a clean, sanitary, and pleasant environment to enhance quality patient care. This role does not require direct patient care.

Responsibilities

• Maintain assigned areas set forth by supervisor and/or manager.
• Cleaning of all floors, offices, clinical and non-clinical spaces, halls, common areas (including stairs), restroom facilities, doorways, and entrances immediately outside of assigned area.
• Sweep, scrub, refinish, polish and strip floors using brooms and mops and power.
• Cleaning of carpets, including vacuuming, shampooing, deodorizing, and disinfecting.
• Stripping and remaking beds; bundling soiled linen; cleaning guest/patient rooms, bathrooms, dusting, sanitizing flat surfaces; emptying trash; vacuuming, sweeping, dry mopping, and wet mopping rooms, hallways, stairways, and other public areas; washing walls; moving linens to and from drop-off locations.
• Aiding with moving furnishings/contents as required to complete assigned tasks.
• Keeping equipment and workspace neat, clean, and safe.
• Performing minor maintenance as required.
• Locking/unlocking doors and doing security rounds.
• Performing other duties as required and/or assigned.
• Following infection prevention protocols and standards.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or Equivalent required.
• No experience in lieu of a degree accepted.

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Demonstrated ability to follow oral and written instructions required.
• Experience in environmental services or housekeeping preferred (0-1 year preferred).
• Demonstrated attention to detail and high-quality customer service skills required.
• Knowledge of various waste streams; Biological, Hazardous, General, Sharps and Recycling waste streams and their respective collection points.
• Knowledge of departmental Fire Management Plan.
• Responds to fire alarms and assists Fire Department as required.