EVS Lead

Banner Health; Glendale (AZ); On-site; USD 42,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Banner Thunderbird Medical Center in Glendale, AZ, seeks an EVS Lead to supervise and train environmental services staff, coordinate scheduling, and ensure high cleaning standards across the hospital.

The role involves leadership responsibilities, coordination of bed board activities, calls and dispatching, and may include work in specialized areas. A fast-paced environment requires teamwork and strong communication skills.

Qualifications

• Requires two or more years in healthcare environmental services.
• Must have leadership and communication skills.
• Knowledge of infection control and hand hygiene.
• Arizona Fingerprint Clearance Card preferred for certain Banner Health settings.

Responsibilities

• Ensures staffing plans are carried out and hospital-wide projects are planned.
• Performs cleaning in patient rooms, specialty and common areas.
• Trains and retrains Environmental Services staff; develops team members.
• Supervises in the absence of the leader; assigns work and moves staff as needed.
• Assists supervisor with Quality Assurance inspections and deficiencies.
• Distributes linens and supplies; takes inventories in assigned areas.
• Oversees daily activities of Environmental Services Associates and coordinates projects.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Infection control

Staff development

Scheduling

Job description

## EVS LeadApply: Banner Thunderbird Med Ctr (5555 W Thunderbird Rd): Full time: Posted Today: R4452403**Primary City/State:**Glendale, Arizona**Department Name:**Environmental Svcs-Hosp**Work Shift:**Evening**Job Category:**Facilities, Environmental Services, and CulinaryA rewarding career that fits your life. Learn how Banner Health, a certified Great Place To Work, prioritizes team members and strives to be the best place to work in health care.Banner Thunderbird Medical Center has an exciting opportunity for a driven and dedicated **Housekeeping EVS Lead** to join our team. In this role, you'll be responsible for cleaning, sanitizing, and maintaining our facility to the highest standards, while supporting leadership with new hire training, supply management, and scheduling. You'll also be trained to coordinate all department activities — including answering phones, monitoring the bed board, dispatching, logging, tracking, and prioritizing staff assignments to ensure requests are completed efficiently and effectively. This is a fast-paced, physical role that involves walking, pushing a cleaning cart, and working with cleaning chemicals to address blood and bodily fluids, with potential assignments in specialty areas such as the morgue or a COVID-19 unit. Strong communication skills, adaptability, and a team-first mindset are essential. A background check and drug screen are required upon offer, onboarding must be completed in a timely manner, and all Banner Health employees are required to receive an annual Flu Vaccine.**Position Details*** **Type:** Full-Time | 40 hours per week* **Shift:** 2:30 PM – 11:30 PM* **Schedule:** Every other weekend | Holidays included | Weekend & Holiday rotations required* **Differentials:** $1.00/hour flat rate weekend differential | 18% night shift differential (when applicable)Banner Health’s premier West Valley Level I Trauma for adults and Tertiary Care destination for all ages. Banner Thunderbird Medical Center (BTMC) and Banner Children’s Hospital at Thunderbird provide a preferred destination for surgical, oncological, cardiovascular, neuroscience, orthopedic, pediatric, and women and infant services achieved through best-in-class 5-star CMS rating to provide patients with high quality, safe care for the best possible experience. Our campus is one of the largest campuses in the Banner network with over 3000 employees. BTMC was voted Best of the Best in 2023 by Banner Health out of 30 hospitals. This is the most prestigious award one of our largest hospitals can receive for consistently meeting our annual targets. If you would like to contribute to truly leading edge caring, we invite you to bring your experience and skills to Banner Thunderbird.POSITION SUMMARY This position provides leadership and training for environmental services associates, while working as a member of the EVS Associate team. CORE FUNCTIONS 1. Ensures that staffing plans are carried out properly, and that all areas of the hospital/facility are staffed appropriately. With supervisor, plans completion of hospital wide projects, ensures consistent service delivery standards in all aspects of the Environmental Services and Linen operations. Gives input to supervisor on quality and timeliness of work performed by environmental services staff. 2. Performs cleaning functions in patient rooms, specialty areas and common areas. 3. Works closely with supervisor to train and retrain, recruit, retain and develop the Environmental Services team members, fostering a culture that reflects the core values and operational polices of our department and the company. 4. May supervise staff in the absence of the Environmental Services leader. Makes work assignments and responds to immediate needs by moving staff to various areas of facility as needed. Moves furniture and sets up rooms for meetings and special functions. 5. Assists supervisor in performing Quality Assurance Inspections for review and correction of deficiencies. 6. Distributes linens and supplies as needed; takes inventories in assigned areas. 7. Works independently with general supervision. Department responsibility only. Customers include staff, patients, visitors, physicians and vendors. Oversees daily activities of a team of Environmental Services Associates. Makes staffing assignments in absence of supervisor; coordinates cleaning projects as assigned, assists with on-the-job training, provides input to performance evaluations. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONSRequires the skills, knowledge and abilities in healthcare environmental services work typically acquired over two or more years of related work experience. Must have leadership skills and be able to communicate effectively verbally and in writing. Requires the ability to work independently with minimal supervision. Must serve as a role model to others in customer service skills, safe work practices, and infection control including hand hygiene. Employees working at Banner Behavioral Health Hospital, BTMC Behavioral, and BUMG, BUMCT, or BUMCS in a Behavioral Health clinical setting that serves children must possess an Arizona Fingerprint Clearance Card at the time of hire and maintain the card for the duration of their employment. An Arizona Criminal History Affidavit must be signed upon hire. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONSBasic computer skills in word processing and electronic mail are preferred. Additional related education and/or experience preferred.