Environmental Services Tech I

Baptist Health; Richmond (KY); On-site; USD 15,000 - 27,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Vision, Dental

Tuition Reimbursement

Paid Time Off

Company paid parental leave

Bereavement Leave

Retirement with Company Match

Identity Theft Protection

Job summary

Baptist Health is seeking an Environmental Services Tech I (EVS I) for the 2nd shift to maintain a clean, safe environment for patients, visitors and staff. Responsibilities include timely room turns, trash removal, waste handling, dusting, mopping, and operating cleaning equipment.

The role requires physical ability (lift up to 50 lbs, bend, kneel, stoop) and a preferred high school diploma. PPE must be worn as needed.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Ensure timely room turns related to patient throughput within infection prevention principles.
• Empties trash and relines cans with clean liners.
• 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 various types of vacuum cleaners and cleaning tools.
• Wear PPE (gloves, eye protection, gowns, booties, masks, hair covers) as required.
• Other duties as assigned such as performing alternate EVS aid responsibilities.

Skills

Physical stamina

Room turnover coordination

Safety awareness

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent

Job description

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

• 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. Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama. Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.

EEO Statement

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law.

Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team.

Please note that Baptist Health is a drug-free workplace and employment with Baptist Health is subject to post offer, pre-employment drug testing.

NOTICE OF NONDISCRMISSION AND ACCESSIBILITY TO SERVICES

Persons with hearing and speech impairments can contact Baptist Health facilities by using the Kentucky Relay Service, a toll-free telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD). For voice to TDD, call 800.648.6057. For TDD to voice, call 800.648.6056.