Environmental Services Worker

Job Description Summary

Position Responsibilities:

• Cleans and damps wipes walls, windowsills, overhead lights as required daily.
• Dusts, mops, and damps mops floors, corners, and edges, paying special attention to baseboards and using appropriate solutions as evident on observations.
• Demonstrates sanitation and disinfection of beds, controls, motors, mattresses, etc., upon patient discharge.
• Demonstrates knowledge of correct use and appropriate dilution of chemicals and economical use of supplies.
• Keeps labels on chemicals and demonstrates knowledge of proper cleaning and disinfecting of patient care units by following 7-step cleaning procedures.
• Cleans and disinfects public areas, pantries, waiting areas, utility rooms within assigned areas.
• Demonstrates knowledge of hard surface floor care, dust, damp mopping, and burnishing/buffing as evident on observation.
• Communicates and works with floor tech to maintain floor shine’s with any information.
• Demonstrates knowledge of carpet care such as vacuuming, spot cleaning, and bonneting.
• Attends and participates in monthly department staff meetings and staff development programs when scheduled.
• Completes all daily work assignments and area check sheets and beepers, explaining incomplete assignments.
• Fulfills Bed Tracking Procedures when cleaning discharge rooms.
• Loads carts to part level and records information, counts returns from previous deliveries and records information.
• Delivers clean linen carts to floors as scheduled or assigned, assures all linen carts are clean and covered at all times.
• Maintains telephone log, records linen and service requests, adheres to clean distribution schedule and collects solid linen daily.
• Transports soiled linen directly to soiled linen area, transports soiled linen using universal precautions and covered at all times, properly follows all infection control guidelines.
• Assists Laundry provider with loading and unloading clean and soiled linen carts.
• Follows hand washing procedures performed after removal of gloves and prior to handling clean linen.

Qualifications

• Licenses/Registrations/Certifications: Not applicable.
• Education: High School diploma or GED preferred.
• Experience: Some experience in housekeeping, linen maintenance, or industrial/hotel or healthcare experience strongly preferred.