ESD Aide I

Rhode Island Hospital; United States; On-site; USD 25,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Rhode Island Hospital is seeking a Environmental Services worker to perform cleaning tasks in a hospital setting. Responsibilities include buffing, stripping and refinishing floors, shampooing carpets, and general room and area sanitation in alignment with departmental procedures.

Role entails assembling supplies, returning unused items, preparing solutions, and maintaining clean, safe work areas. Shift is evenings (3:00pm–11:30pm) with alternating weekends and a focus on patient and campus

Qualifications

• Ability to follow written and oral instructions in English.
• Interpersonal communication skills.
• Physical ability to perform cleaning tasks, including lifting up to 25 pounds.

Responsibilities

• Assembles materials and supplies, stocks carts, transports to area, and cleans per floor schedule.
• Returns unused supplies, cleans equipment, and stores it properly.
• Prepares cleaning solutions and dusts/windowsills, blinds, furniture.
• Empties wastebaskets, mops floors, and polishes fixtures in bathrooms, offices, and patient rooms.
• Cleans showers and toilets, dusts or vacuums chairs, makes beds with clean linens.

Skills

Follow written and oral instructions

Interpersonal communication

Ability to lift up to 25 pounds

Education

Secondary school level education

Job description

SUMMARY: Under general supervision of the Environmental Services Supervisor, performs a variety of project cleaning duties, including buffing, stripping and refinishing of floor surfaces, shampooing of carpets and other cleaning duties to maintain an assigned area of the hospital, or its related buildings, in a sanitary and orderly condition.

Brown University Health employees are expected to successfully role model the organization's values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence as these values guide our everyday actions with patients, customers and one another.

In addition to our values, all employees are expected to demonstrate the core Success Factors which tell us how we work together and how we get things done.

Core Success Factors

• Instill Trust and Value Differences
• Patient and Community Focus and Collaborate

Responsibilities

• Assembles materials and supplies from supply rooms, stock service carts, transports to assigned work area, performs daily cleaning and supplying of the area, as defined on the floor schedule in accordance with established departmental procedures, prescribed methods and standards.
• Returns unused supplies to supply room at the end of shift, cleans equipment used in performance of duties and stores it properly.
• Prepares cleaning solutions, dusts windowsills, blinds, furniture, and other items.
• Empties and cleans wastebaskets, dry mops floors, cleans and polishes metal and porcelain fixtures in bathrooms, offices, and patient rooms.
• Cleans showers and toilets, damp dusts or vacuums chairs and other items, makes beds with clean linens.
• Performs discharge cleaning of patient rooms, assists in the cleaning of observed emergency spills upon request.
• Vacuum rugs and carpets.
• Washes walls and ceilings, cleans lighting fixtures, tops of windows and doorframes.
• Hangs and changes bedside curtains and drapes, moves furniture to clean area, notifying supervisor when assistance is necessary.
• Transports trash and linen to designated areas, compacts trash following established hospital procedures, packs infectious waste, as needed.
• Maintains assigned equipment and work area in a clean, orderly and safe condition.
• Reports necessary repairs to equipment, furniture, building and fixtures to supervisor.
• Performs duties assigned in accordance with hospital procedures during fire, or internal/community disaster.
• Performs all heavy duty cleaning functions as required.
• Operates power equipment as needed.
• Transports furniture and equipment in accordance with department policies.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

Basic Knowledge

• Requires the ability to follow written and oral instructions in English.
• The level of education normally attained in courses at secondary school levels.
• Effective interpersonal communication skills.

Experience

• One to three months to proficiently perform all basic duties.

Work Environment and Physical Requirements

• Routinely work in healthcare setting such as acute care hospitals, physician office and/or ancillary healthcare enterprise.
• Any potential workplace hazards are minimized or nullified by adherence to established safety procedures and precautions including the use of safety equipment and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
• Physical ability to perform required tasks and ability to lift up to 25 pounds.

Pay Range: $18.00-$25.82

EEO Statement: Brown University Health is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and maintaining a work environment free from all forms of unlawful discrimination and harassment.

Location: The Miriam Hospital - 164 Summit Ave Providence, Rhode Island 02906

Work Type: M-F 3:00pm to 11:30pm/Alternating Weekends-Saturdays & Sundays

Work Shift: Evening

Daily Hours: 8 hours

Driving Required: No