EVS Group Leader - 3rd Shift

St. Luke’s University Health Network; Quakertown (Bucks County); On-site; USD 48,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

St. Luke's University Health Network is seeking a Group Leader for Environmental Services to coordinate and lead the housekeeping and support operations across hospital environments. This role ensures timely moves, starts shifts, assigns tasks, and maintains equipment and safety standards.

The position requires coordinating daily functions, guiding staff during shortages, and upholding quality control to meet hospital standards within a large health network.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or G.E.D. equivalency preferred.
• Three to six months of housekeeping experience in a hospital or institutional setting preferred.

Responsibilities

• Coordinates and facilitates moves and set-ups as requested by other departments and off-site buildings.
• Coordinates the opening of the shift assigning aides to work schedules, issuing keys and pagers in the absence of the supervisor.
• Coordinates work assignments and delegates work to Environmental Services aides.
• Actively responds to issues concerning policies and procedures as they relate to Environmental Services aides.
• Performs maintenance and minor repairs on department equipment, assuring it is clean and functioning properly.
• Check equipment batteries weekly for proper maintenance.
• Assists in orientation of new employees through training and working with them in assigned area(s).
• Assists in the planning, monitoring and implementation of the Environmental Services daily functions. Ensuring all discharges and transfers are completed in a timely manner.
• Ensuring completion of daily scheduled meeting set-up requests within the set period.
• Assists in performing housekeeping duties during critical staff shortages.
• Revises work assignments to offset absences or achieve workload demands.
• Assists with quality control inspections and monitors follow-up on results to meet hospital acceptable standards.

Education

High School Diploma or G.E.D. equivalency

Job description

St. Luke's is proud of the skills, experience and compassion of its employees. The employees of St. Luke's are our most valuable asset! Individually and together, our employees are dedicated to satisfying the mission of our organization which is an unwavering commitment to excellence as we care for the sick and injured; educate physicians, nurses and other health care providers; and improve access to care in the communities we serve, regardless of a patient's ability to pay for health care.

The Group Leader, Environmental Services coordinates, plans and implements the scheduled work activities of the Environmental Services staff. Monitor assigned areas periodically throughout the work shift. Observe the quality and effectiveness of departmental employees; providing for the general cleaning of the hospitals environment in order to achieve quality results set forth in the Department Mission Statement.

JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Coordinates and facilitates moves and set-ups as requested by other departments and off-site buildings.
• Coordinates the opening of the shift assigning aides to work schedules, issuing keys and pagers in the absence of the supervisor.
• Coordinates work assignments and delegates work to Environmental Services aides.
• Actively responds to issues concerning policies and procedures as they relate to Environmental Services aides.
• Performs maintenance and minor repairs on department equipment, assuring it is clean and functioning properly.
• Check equipment batteries weekly for proper maintenance.
• Assists in orientation of new employees through training and working with them in assigned area(s).
• Assists in the planning, monitoring and implementation of the Environmental Services daily functions. Ensuring all discharges and transfers are completed in a timely manner.
• Ensuring completion of daily scheduled meeting set-up requests within the set period.
• Assists in performing housekeeping duties during critical staff shortages.
• Revises work assignments to offset absences or achieve workload demands.
• Assists with quality control inspections and monitors follow-up on results to meet hospital acceptable standards.

PHYSICAL AND SENSORY REQUIREMENTS

Walks for up to 6-7 hours/day; 2-4 hours at a time. Sitting for up to 4 hours per day, one hour at a time. Stands for up to 6-7 hours/day; 2-4 hours at a time. Fingering and handling frequently. Twisting and turning of hands occasionally. Occasional lifting up to 50 lbs. Occasional carrying up to 25 lbs., rarely up to 50 lbs. Occasional pushing and pulling up to 50 lbs. rarely up to 75 lbs. Occasionally stoops, bends, squat, kneel and reach above shoulder level. Rarely climbs ladder up to 10 feet. Hearing as it relates to normal conversation and seeing as it relates to general and near vision.

EDUCATION

High School Diploma or G.E.D. equivalency preferred.

TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE

Three to six months of experience in housekeeping in either a hospital or institutional setting preferred.

Thank you for your interest in St. Luke's!!

St. Luke's University Health Network is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Founded in 1872, St. Luke's University Health Network (SLUHN) is a fully integrated, regional, non-profit network of more than 23,000 employees providing services at 16 campuses and 350+ outpatient sites. With annual net revenue in excess of $4 billion, the Network's service area includes 11 counties in two states: Lehigh, Northampton, Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Montgomery, Monroe, Schuylkill and Luzerne counties in Pennsylvania and Warren and Hunterdon counties in New Jersey. St. Luke's hospitals operate the largest network of trauma centers in Pennsylvania, with the Bethlehem Campus being home to St. Luke's Children's Hospital. SLUHN is the only Lehigh Valley-based health care system to earn Medicare's five-star ratings (the highest) for quality, efficiency and patient satisfaction. It is both a Leapfrog Group and Healthgrades Top Hospital and a Newsweek World's Best Hospital. The Network's flagship University Hospital has earned the 100 Top Major Teaching Hospital designation from Premier 13 times total and eleven years in a row, including in 2023 when it was identified as THE #4 TEACHING HOSPITAL IN THE COUNTRY. In 2021, St. Luke's was identified as one of the 15 Top Health Systems nationally. St. Luke's is the ONLY health care institution in the Lehigh Valley to be named a Top Workplace regionally repeating the exclusive honor for the third year in a row. Also, for the third straight year, St. Luke's has been a Top Workplaces in the Philadelphia Region by the Philadelphia Inquirer, ranking 9th in the large employer category for 2025 and the only health care system in PA to receive this award. In 2025, St. Luke's was recognized as a national Top Workplaces by USA Today, three years in a row, including the 3rd best health care system in the nation in 2023 and 2024. Lastly, in 2025, St. Luke's was named a Top Workplace in New Jersey for the third year in a row.