Environmental Services Tech I

Baptist Health; Richmond (KY); On-site; USD 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Vision Insurance

Dental Insurance

Pet Insurance

Tuition Reimbursement

Maternity/Paternity Leave

Bereavement Leave

PTO Sell Back Program

Job summary

Baptist Health in Kentucky is seeking an Environmental Services Technician I (EVS I) for full-time, second shift. The role focuses on maintaining a clean, safe, and aesthetically pleasing environment for patients, visitors, and staff.

Responsibilities include patient room turnover, waste handling, surface disinfection, and adherence to infection prevention principles. The position requires basic lifting ability and PPE usage as needed.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Turn and clean patient rooms to maintain hygiene and safety.
• Empty trash and reline liners.
• Remove infectious waste and manage sharps containers.
• Dust surfaces with germicidal agent.
• Mop floors, vacuum carpets, and clean under beds.
• Use PPE as required.
• Perform other EVS duties as assigned.

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent

Job description

Summary

Job Description

Job Title: Environmental Services Tech I (EVS I)

Full Time - 2nd shift

The primary goal of Environmental Services is to provide a clean and safe environment for our
patients, visitors, and staff.

Job Description

The Environmental Service Technician I is responsible for executing the daily duties required to establish and maintain a safe, hygienic, and aesthetically pleasing care environment. EVS Tech will have contact with patients, visitors, and clinical and non-clinical staff. Contact may include physical, psychological, educational, and safety related and should be appropriate to the specific demographics of patients served in assigned service areas.

Requirements

• Ensuring timely room turns related to patient throughput within the basic principles of environmental hygiene and infection prevention.
• Empties trash, cleans trash can as needed, relines can with clean liner.
• Removes infectious waste and fills sharps containers as needed.
• Damp dusts furniture, ledges, and fixtures with a germicidal agent.
• Dry mops, wet mops floors and vacuums carpeting.
• High dust vents, over bed lights and other items over shoulder height.
• Operates several types of vacuum cleaners and other miscellaneous cleaning tools.
• Expected at times to wear personal protection equipment to include rubber gloves, eye protection, gowns, booties, masks, and hair covers.
• Other duties as assigned such as performing alternate EVS aid responsibilities as needed.

Essential Qualifications

• Prefer completion of High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Safely and properly lift and transport items weighing up to 50 lbs.
• Safely and properly pull, push, bend, stoop, kneel, crouch and stretch.

Benefits: Part-Time 24 weekly hours (0.6 FTE) - 31.99 weekly hours (0.8FTE)

• Health, Vision, Dental and Pet Insurance
• Tuition Reimbursement up to $6,000 annually
• Company paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Bereavement Leave (includes pets)
• PTO Sell Back Program
• Compassionate Leave Sharing Program (PTO Donation)
• Employee Support Fund, for employees in need of emergency financial support
• Retirement with Company Match
• Identity Theft Protection
• 5 days of Paid Time Off available upon hire

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.