Environmental Service Aide I

Dignity Health; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 29,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Environmental Services Aide at Dignity Health’s California Hospital Medical Center maintains clean, sanitary, and orderly areas to promote a healthy environment for staff, patients, and visitors. Responsibilities include handling biohazard waste, replenishing supplies, and delivering clean linens to patient rooms.

Daily tasks cover patient rooms, common areas, and support spaces, with emphasis on safety, reliability, and meticulous attention to detail in accordance with department policies.

Qualifications

• Clean and sanitize hospital areas following departmental standards.
• Adhere to disposal techniques for biohazard materials.
• Maintain supplies and deliver clean linen to patient rooms.

Responsibilities

• Clean patient rooms and common areas daily.
• Discharge room cleaning including sanitizing and bed making.
• Follow safety protocols and infection control guidelines.

Skills

Fire Safety

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

Job Summary And Responsibilities

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.

Every day you will adhere to proper disposal techniques for biohazard materials, including bodily fluids or sharp objects. You will apply specialized cleaning techniques to designated rooms and equipment, replenish supplies such as soap, paper towels, and tissues, and deliver clean linens to patient rooms.

You will be successful in this role if you consistently maintain high standards of cleanliness and infection control while following safety protocols and departmental guidelines. Success also depends on reliability, attention to detail, flexibility to take on additional tasks, timely reporting of maintenance issues, and a proactive approach to responding to emergencies and supporting a safe, healthy environment for patients and staff.

• Provides daily patient room cleaning, including trash removal, high and low dusting, dust mopping, mopping, bathroom cleaning and replenishing dispensers.
• Provides 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.
• Cleans common areas and provides routine corridor cleaning in assigned area.
• Follows the hospital and department policies and procedures to perform cleaning of support areas (offices, supply areas, nurses' stations, waiting areas, utility rooms, etc.)
• Maintains adequate supplies for standard precautions and properly utilizes isolation techniques. Maintains adequate supplies for standard precautions and properly utilizes isolation techniques.
• Handles biohazardous waste properly including the changing of sharps containers.

Job 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 - $25.00 /hour