Environmental Services Aide

WellSpan Health; Chambersburg (IL); On-site; USD 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

WellSpan Health Environmental Services staff perform a variety of functions to maintain the Hospital campus in a neat, orderly, and sanitary condition.

Essential duties include cleaning patient floors and restrooms, managing discharge bed making, and ensuring common areas remain presentable. Experience in healthcare or cleaning industries is preferred, with a focus on safety and infection-control guidelines.

Qualifications

• Education: High School Graduate or G.E.D. preferred.
• Experience applying customer service behaviors and communication skills required.
• Experience in healthcare setting or cleaning industry preferred.

Responsibilities

• Performs a variety of environmental service functions to maintain the hospital campus in a neat, orderly, and sanitary condition.
• Completes discharge bed making according to procedure and within a 30 minute timeframe.
• Insures bed linens utilized are in good condition.
• Assigned common and public areas are neat, clean, and presenting a good lasting first impression.
• Cleans assigned areas according to procedures; floors are clean, free of debris, spots and cobwebs.
• Trash is handled appropriately in assigned areas and recycling is segregated and disposed appropriately.

Skills

Customer service

Communication skills

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

Performs a variety of environmental service functions to maintain the Hospital campus in a neat, orderly, and sanitary condition.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

Technical Excellence

• 1. Thinks critically; utilizes sound judgment; promptly reports potential risks.
• 2. Maintains state of art knowledge of area of specialty, healthcare trends and practice, and populations served.
• 3. Maintains a level of computer literacy appropriate to their role.
• 4. Meets and maintains current all unit specific and organizational skills/competencies, certifications/licensures, as required.
• 5. Completes hospital-required reviews, e.g. HIPAA, safety, health screening, care concerns, and others as assigned.
• 6. Adheres to National Patient Safety Goals.

Job Class Specifics

• 1. Assignment sheets are completed in a timely fashion to accurately reflect what has been completed and documented. Performs needed repairs and special projects required in the assigned area.
• 2. Maintains ability to assist in other positions, responds positively to abrupt scheduling changes during times of increased patient activity or short staffing situations.
• 3. Supplies and equipment are utilized appropriately (i.e., solutions are mixed correctly and products are used as intended).
• 4. Completes discharge bed making according to procedure and within a 30 minute timeframe.
• 5. Insures bed linens utilized are in good condition.
• 6. Insures completed beds have crisp and neat tucks and folds.
• 7. Assigned common and public areas are neat, clean, and presenting a good lasting first impression.
• 8. Completes discharge bed cleaning in a fashion that maintains clean and ready beds on all floors at all times and prioritizes areas of heavy admissions as needed.
• 9. Patient floors: Prioritizes and performs room cleaning and restroom maintenance in a fashion so that assignments are completed at day's end, restrooms remain clean, and trash is removed.
• 10. OR-ER-Treatment: Prioritizes work so that areas are ready to accept, and treat new patients for procedures. Infection Control guidelines are met.
• 11. Office-Anciliary-Clinical: Completes and prioritizes work so that assignments and cleaning standards are met. Prescribed work is done according to plan and procedure.
• 12. Cleans assigned areas according to procedures; floors are clean, free of debris, spots and cobwebs.
• 13. Furniture in assigned areas is kept clean, free of spots and tears, and in good working order.
• 14. Curtains and draperies in assigned areas are maintained in clean, good working order.
• 15. Personal protective equipment guidelines and procedures are followed to maintain personal protection and infection control guidelines.
• 16. Trash is handled appropriately in assigned areas. General trash is removed in a timely fashion, bio-hazard trash is removed according to Federal and State Law, and labeling is completed appropriately. Recycling is segregated and disposed appropriately.
• 17. Restrooms in assigned areas are maintained in a clean, fresh manner. Fixtures free from dust, soil, spillage, polished to shine and are disinfected. Free of customer complaints.

Qualifications and Standards

• Education: High School Graduate or G.E.D. preferred.
• Experience: Experience applying customer service behaviors and communication skills required. Experience in healthcare setting or cleaning industry preferred.
• Certifications/Licensure: None