Environmental Services Specialist

Compass Memorial; Iowa; Sur place; USD 26 000 - 36 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Compass Memorial Healthcare is seeking a dedicated Environmental Services/Housekeeping Specialist to support daily cleaning and bedding replenishment in patient rooms and clinics.

Responsibilities include cleaning, sanitizing, laundry duties, waste disposal, and restocking supplies to ensure a safe, welcoming environment for patients, families, and staff.

This role emphasizes infection prevention, teamwork, and responsive service across CMH facilities.

Responsabilités

• Maintain cleanliness and orderliness as assigned throughout CMH and clinics.
• Dust, Clean, Sanitize all furniture, equipment and other items throughout facility.
• Empty all trash receptacles; transports trash and waste to disposal area.
• Sweeps and scrubs floors using broom or mops.
• Vacuum all carpeted floors, rugs or other furnishings.
• Washes walls, woodwork and windows.
• Keep storage and equipment areas clean and organized.
• Monitor cleaning checklist for other daily, weekly, and monthly duties.
• Ensure laundry is completed daily.
• Ensure patient’s laundry is returned daily.
• Maintain patient rooms by cleaning and sanitizing beds, tables, stands, chairs and miscellaneous furnishings.
• Ensuring patients rooms are clean and sanitized and ready for admits at all times.
• Upon patient discharged, ensure rooms are cleaned, sanitized and replenished.
• Cleans, sanitized and replenished bathrooms as necessary.
• Distributes clean linens to proper areas, closets; and keeps those areas neat and clean.
• Removes soiled linens and places in designated areas.
• Maintains neat, clean and orderly cleaning carts and equipment.
• Maintains neat, clean and orderly storage areas.
• Ensures hallways/rooms are free from equipment/clutter.
• Respond to any housekeeping calls or pages, answering and completing assignment or request in a timely manner.
• Demonstrate ability to use and regulated equipment and chemicals used by Environmental Services department.
• Recognizes unsafe conditions and reports as necessary to maintain a safe workplace.
• Demonstrates a general knowledge of all cleaning products and procedures.
• Recognizes supplies needed throughout facility and specific to departments/areas.

Description du poste

This position primary function include daily cleaning and supplying of patient rooms, hospital and clinics as assigned in accordance with standard procedures of the Housekeeping/Environmental Services department. The housekeeping role is vital in every aspect and area of Compass Memorial Healthcare. The housekeeping/environmental specialist role affects everyone who walks thought the CMH doors; from the staff, doctors, patients and their families. By our standards of cleanliness we are the first line of defense in infection prevention and control. This position is the smile and small talk to the patients and their families as we clean their rooms, or pass them in the hall.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Maintain cleanliness and orderliness as assigned throughout CMH and clinics.
• Dust, Clean, Sanitize all furniture, equipment and other items throughout facility.
• Empty all trash receptacles; transports trash and waste to disposal area.
• Sweeps and scrubs floors using broom or mops.
• Vacuum all carpeted floors, rugs or other furnishings.
• Washes walls, woodwork and windows.
• Keep storage and equipment areas clean and organized.
• Monitor cleaning checklist for other daily, weekly, and monthly duties.
• Ensure laundry is completed daily.
• Ensure patient’s laundry is returned daily.
• Maintain patient rooms by cleaning and sanitizing beds, tables, stands, chairs and miscellaneous furnishings.
• Ensuring patients rooms are clean and sanitized and ready for admits at all times.
• Upon patient discharged, ensure rooms are cleaned, sanitized and replenished.
• Cleans, sanitized and replenished bathrooms as necessary.
• Distributes clean linens to proper areas, closets; and keeps those areas neat and clean.
• Removes soiled linens and places in designated areas.
• Maintains neat, clean and orderly cleaning carts and equipment.
• Maintains neat, clean and orderly storage areas.
• Ensures hallways/rooms are free from equipment/clutter.
• Respond to any housekeeping calls or pages, answering and completing assignment or request in a timely manner.
• Demonstrate ability to use and regulated equipment and chemicals used by Environmental Services department.
• Recognizes unsafe conditions and reports as necessary to maintain a safe workplace.
• Demonstrates a general knowledge of all cleaning products and procedures.
• Recognizes supplies needed throughout facility and specific to departments/areas.

In order toprovide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals, employment decisions at Compass Memorial Healthcare will be based on merit, qualifications, and abilities. Compass Memorial Healthcare does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other classification in accordance with federal, state and local statutes, regulations and ordinances.

Start your day with a delicious breakfast or enjoy a satisfying lunch at the May Street Café. You don’t have to be a patient to dine with us. Open to the community, dine in or grab your meal to go.

CMH Foundation

The CMH Foundation supports Compass Memorial Healthcare through donations that enhance patient care, fund advanced technology and facility improvements, and help ensure exceptional healthcare for our communities.

Your Health. Your Community.

Join our newsletter to stay informed about Compass Memorial Healthcare programs, events, and patient resources.