Environmental Services Worker- Days

Saint Francis Hospital, Inc.; New Haven (CT); On-site; USD 17,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Saint Francis Hospital, Inc. in Tulsa seeks an Environmental Services Worker to clean patient rooms and general spaces across facilities, adhering to infection control procedures and safe work practices to maintain optimal cleanliness.

The role requires ability to read and follow instructions, meet physical requirements, prioritize tasks, and provide courteous service to patients and staff; responsibilities include floor care, waste handling, supplies restocking, and reporting maintenance needs.

Qualifications

• Ability to read and write and understand safety signage.
• Ability to meet physical requirements of the job.
• Customer service-driven.
• Ability to use cleaning equipment.
• Ability to follow cleaning schedules.

Responsibilities

• Performs cleaning and sanitizing activities in patient rooms and common spaces.
• Maintains flooring care including cleaning, buffing, and applying floor sealer and floor finish to hard surface floors.
• Uses and maintains power equipment and hand tools such as buffers, auto brooms, mops, and squeegees.
• Provides waste collection and removal including biomedical waste, recycling, cleaning trash chutes and receptacles.
• Mixes and obtains cleaning solutions from dispensing systems; follows appropriate cleaning methods and uses the correct solutions and equipment for different surfaces.
• Restocks cleaning supplies and various other items such as toilet paper, paper towels, and soap.
• Carries out bed tracking tasks, as needed.
• Reports any maintenance or repair needs to management.

Skills

Prioritization

Reading/Writing

Safety awareness

Customer service

Follow instructions

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Tools

Buffers

Auto brooms

Mops

Squeegees

Floor sealer

Job description

Full Time Days Shift: 7:30am - 4pm with rotating weekends

Job Summary:

The Environmental Services Worker cleans patient rooms and general spaces throughout the health system facilities following safe work practices and infection control procedures. This role works to maintain all designated areas are kept in optimal cleaning standards according to established disinfection and sterilization guidelines and practices.

Minimum Education:

High School Diploma or GED, preferred.

Licensure, Registration and/or Certificatetion:

None.

Work Experience:

None.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Skill to prioritize work in an efficient and effective manner.
• Proven ability to read and write and understand oral instructions and safety signage.
• Ability to meet the physical requirements and working conditions of the job.
• Shown ability to be customer service driven.
• Demonstrated ability to use a phone/paging system for cleaning assignments.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Performs cleaning and sanitizing activities in designated areas including patient rooms, bathrooms, and common spaces throughout the health system facilities.
• Maintains flooring care including cleaning, buffing, and applying floor sealer and floor finish to hard surface floors; vacuums, shampoos and extracts carpets.
• Uses and maintains power equipment and hand tools such as buffers, auto brooms, mops, and squeegees for the cleaning and general maintenance of floors, walls, carpets, and furniture.
• Provides waste collection and removal including biomedical waste, recycling, cleaning trash chutes and receptacles.
• Mixes and obtains cleaning solutions from dispensing systems; follows appropriate cleaning methods and uses the correct solutions and equipment for different surfaces.
• Restocks cleaning supplies and various other items such as toilet paper, paper towels, and soap.
• Carries out bed tracking tasks, as needed.
• Reports any maintenance or repair needs to management.

Decision Making:

Independent judgment in making minor decisions where alternatives are limited and standard policies/protocols have been established.

Working Relationships:

Works directly with patients and/or customers. Works with internal and/or external customers via telephone or face to face interaction. Works with other healthcare professionals and staff.

Special Job Dimensions:

None.

Supplemental Information:

This document generally describes the essential functions of the job and the physical demands required to perform the job. This compilation of essential functions and physical demands is not all inclusive nor does it prohibit the assignment of additional duties.

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EOE Protected Veterans/Disability

Saint Francis is a Catholic, not-for-profit Health system based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. We are the largest private employer in Eastern Oklahoma with over 12,000 employees, including 1,000 physicians. The health system is anchored by the 1,112-bed Saint Francis Hospital, the largest hospital in Oklahoma and the 11th largest in the nation. Our system also includes hospitals in south Tulsa, Muskogee and Vinita, as well as 110 Warren Clinic locations from Monkey Island to McAlester, northeastern Oklahoma's only children's hospital, a level IV neonatal intensive care unit, a 168-bed heart hospital, and Tulsa's leading trauma and emergency center.