Environmental Services Specialist

CommonSpirit Health

Pueblo (CO)

On-site

USD 25,595 - 36,699

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

401K with match

Tuition Reimbursement

Student Loan Forgiveness

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Colorado is seeking an Environmental Services Specialist. The role involves providing cleaning services across hospital areas, ensuring compliance with safety regulations, and participating in quality improvement initiatives. Ideal candidates will have strong communication skills and the ability to work independently. The position offers a competitive hourly rate and full-time benefits including medical and tuition reimbursement.

Qualifications

Ability to explain differences in disinfection levels and perform intermediate disinfection.
Respectful listening to coworkers and team members' viewpoints.
Capability to operate necessary cleaning equipment.

Responsibilities

Provide floor care and specialty cleaning services to all areas of the facility.
Ensure cleaning meets organizational safety and infection control standards.
Participate in performance improvement initiatives.

Skills

Oral communication

Written communication

Ability to work without supervision

Tools

Cleaning equipment

Computers and mobile devices

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Welcome To CommonSpirit Health Mountain Region

CommonSpirit Health Mountain Region is committed to building healthier communities, advocating for those who are poor and vulnerable, and innovating how and where healing can happen—both inside our hospitals and out in the community. With locations throughout Colorado, Utah, and Kansas, we deliver the same high standard of care to our employees as we do to our patients. Our 20 hospitals, emergency and urgent care centers, home care and hospice, Flight for Life Colorado TM , telehealth and over 240 physician practices and clinics offer endless opportunities! Here, you can grow your career and impact the people in the communities you serve.

CommonSpirit Health is one of the nation’s largest nonprofit, faith-based health systems, with a team of over 150,000 employees and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice clinicians. CommonSpirit operates more than 2,200 care sites and 140 hospitals, serving some of the most diverse communities across the nation, letting humankindness lead the way.

Overview

You have a purpose, unique talents and NOW is the time to embrace it, live it and put it to work. We value incredible people with incredible skills – but your commitment to a greater cause is something we value even more. This is the heartbeat of our organization and your time will be spent in a supportive, team environment with resources to help you flourish and leaders who care about your success.

Floor Care: Provides basic and specialty cleaning services to all areas of the hospital, focusing primarily on the operations of heavy mechanical equipment (e.g., scrubbers, buffers, polishers, extractors, wet vacuuming equipment, etc.) used in the cleaning and maintenance of hard and soft (i.e., carpet) flooring surfaces, including stairwells, hallways and public spaces.

Specialty Units: Work includes providing a safe care environment for patients, and staff (visitors as appropriate to setting) within a specialty area (surgical services/perioperative suite, cath lab, endoscopy, etc.) achieved by demonstrating the principles of cleaning, disinfection and quality assurance toward the reduction of harmful pathogens for the benefit of patients, visitors, and staff.

Other: Responsibilities may also include work in the Environmental Services Tech I classification.

Responsible for completing as assigned, performs all types of floor care and maintenance throughout the facility, including hard surfaces and carpeting.
Adhere to all organizational safety, risk management and infection control standards while promoting a culture of safety.
Responsible for cleaning and disinfection of specialty units & equipment. Areas include but are not limited to Surgical Services, Labor Delivery, Critical Care, Endoscopy, MRI, Trauma, Cath Lab, NICU, Mental Health and Burn Unit.
Performs duties while demonstrating working knowledge of the health care cleaning and disinfecting principles and requirements, proper and safe chemical use, equipment handling, and labor saving products for all items within the specialty environment tasked with servicing.
Actively participates in departmental performance improvement initiatives, including but not limited to initiatives to improve patient experience and cleanliness metrics.
Follows all environmental and infection prevention practices (i.e. proper cleaning and disinfection protocols and process, hand hygiene, standard & isolation precautions, as well as proper donning and doffing of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
Identify and utilize appropriate resources to ensure identified problems or concerns are followed through and resolved

Qualifications

In addition to bringing your whole self to the workplace each day, qualified candidates will need the following:

Ability to explain orally or in writing the differences between levels of disinfection and perform intermediate level disinfection in areas where required.
Communicates orally or in writing openly and candidly, creates an environment where co-workers and team members reciprocate in kind. Respectfully listens to viewpoints and ideas of others
Can distinguish the differences between levels of disinfection and perform low and intermediate level disinfection.
Ability to operate necessary equipment/machines.
Effectively uses computers and mobile devices.
Respectfully listens to viewpoints and ideas of others.
Ability to work without close supervision.

Physical Requirements

Medium Work - exert/lift up to 50 lbs. force occasionally, and/or up to 20 lbs. frequently, and/or up to 10 lbs. constantly.

Your Connected Community

At CommonSpirit Mountain Region, we believe in the healing power of humanity and serving the common good through our dedicated work and shared mission to celebrate humankindness.

For more than 135 years, St. Mary-Corwin has cared for the people of Pueblo and the surrounding southern Colorado communities. Driven by a commitment to Pueblo and our healing ministry, St. Mary- Corwin is focused on its core areas of clinical strength: cancer care and orthopedic services.

This concentration enables St. Mary-Corwin to serve the southern Colorado region with high quality, high value care for generations to come. Residents of Pueblo enjoy a moderate cost of living within this modern, mid-sized community while experiencing everything great about life in Colorado, including world- class nearby outdoor recreation, thriving local arts and culture, numerous parks, festivals and much more.

Our Total Reward Offerings

Be sure to consider our generous benefits as part of your overall compensation! Designed with your well-being in mind, our benefits include: