EVS Lead

About the role

Gateways Hospital and Mental Health Center located in Los Angeles is a non‑profit organization that provides comprehensive mental health services for children, adolescents, transitional aged youth, and adults suffering from mental illness in the Greater Los Angeles area. The organization operates a standalone 55‑bed hospital and six outpatient facilities ranging from 14 to 134 beds, employing approximately 400 staff. The Lead EVS Technician reports to the EVS Manager and Supervisor, providing oversight or delegation of responsibilities within the EVS operation. The role ensures a clean and sanitary environment by maintaining all facility surfaces, assists EVS management with day‑to‑day operations such as staff scheduling, job assignments, performance management, and training, serves as the primary contact for environmental service needs during the shift, ensures timely, consistent, and collaborative EVS service delivery while adhering to standards and procedures, and also performs the duties of an EVS technician.

Responsibilities

• Provides leadership, support and direction within the department.
• Maintains and adheres to environmental services departmental policies/procedures relative to OSHA, DHS, TJC, NFPA, OSHPD, and other governing agency regulations and standards.
• Coordinates, schedules, oversees, and conducts employee training/development necessary to meet established performance standards, teamwork, and service criteria.
• Performs area inspections with assigned environmental services personnel to evaluate/monitor performance, customer satisfaction, and infection prevention program compliance.
• Assists with scheduling and coverage needs, assigning EVS Technicians to various areas.
• Transports soiled linen, regular trash, and biohazardous trash.
• Maintains assigned areas in a clean, neat, and orderly manner, including sweeping, mopping, and vacuuming floors; disinfecting furniture and equipment (e.g., beds, mattresses, walls, windows and window sills, TVs and TV remotes, door handles, blinds); empties and disinfects wastebaskets; transports waste to disposal area; disinfects bathrooms and maintains appropriate bathroom supplies; undertakes special cleaning projects as needed.
• Ensures supply rooms are stocked and organized.
• Ensures assigned areas are cleaned in a timely fashion.
• Responds to service calls and pages in a timely fashion.
• Arranges and/or moves furniture in patient and non‑patient care areas according to room setup.
• Wears appropriate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) when performing cleaning tasks and entering isolation rooms.
• Scrubs, strips, waxes, and buffs floors utilizing automatic and multi‑speed floor machines and other specialized equipment.
• Performs other duties as assigned.