Environmental Services Associate

About the Role

Join a team where your work matters—every moment, every patient, every community. At SSM Health, you'll be empowered to grow, supported to thrive, and inspired to make a lasting impact. Environmental Services Associates help create a clean, safe, and welcoming environment by disinfecting patient rooms, common areas, and healthcare facilities. This role is critical to infection prevention, patient safety, and ensuring a positive experience for patients, visitors, and care teams.

Responsibilities

• Cleans patient rooms, offices, classrooms, work areas, and public areas as assigned and according to proper processes, procedures, and standards.
• Handles laundry items by sorting and placing in proper containers according to proper processes, procedures, and standards.
• Performs sweeping, mopping, scrubbing, polishing, vacuuming, hard surface floor cleaning, stripping, refinishing, and carpet cleaning, which may require the use of mechanical equipment.
• Cleans light fixtures, ceilings, vents, walls, mattresses, furniture, windows, window coverings, and any other items as assigned by the department's needs.
• Cleans and disinfects sterile procedure rooms according to policies, procedures, and standards, such as surgery and delivery areas, as required by ministry operating standards.
• Adheres to safety precautions, policies, procedures, and standards for handling infectious wastes, hazardous materials, waste spills, and exposures.
• Reports all events as required by ministry documentation standards.
• Replenishes supplies and materials in assigned areas and patient rooms.
• Transports trash, hazardous waste, soiled linen, and recyclable trash to appropriate disposal areas following policies, procedures, and standards.
• May participate in moving furniture, setting up chairs and tables, breaking down rooms, etc.
• May perform routine equipment maintenance and make minor repairs as requested.
• Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.

Requirements

• No experience required.
• Constant standing and walking.
• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
• Frequent reaching and gripping.
• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
• Occasional bending, stooping, climbing, kneeling, squatting, twisting, and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
• Occasional use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication.
• Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
• Occasional use of smell to detect/recognize odors.
• Rare crawling, sitting, and keyboard use/data entry.

Qualifications

No professional license or certifications required.

Schedule

Part-time, 24 hours per week on the day shift.

Department: 9131000116 Environmental Service
Work Shift: Day Shift (United States of America)
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 24