EVS Technician II Mid Shift

BHS Baptist Healthcare System; Springlee (KY); On-site; USD 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Baptist Health is seeking an Environmental Services (EVS) Technician II to provide a safe care environment for patients and staff by cleaning, disinfecting, and handling waste with specialized equipment. You will support infection prevention and ensure timely room turns in a fast-paced setting.

Minimum requirements include customer service and environmental services experience. The role emphasizes quality assurance to reduce pathogens and maintain clean facilities across the health system.

Qualifications

• Customer service experience preferred.
• Environmental services experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide a safe care environment by cleaning, disinfection, and managing waste.
• Operate specialized equipment for hard surfaces and floors.
• Support infection prevention practices and ensure timely room turnover.

Job description

Summary Job Description: Job Summary

The Environmental Services (EVS) Technician II is responsible for providing a safe care environment for patients and staff (visitors as appropriate to the setting) that require additional education and/or training. This is achieved by demonstrating the principles of cleaning, disinfection, handling large amounts of infectious and solid waste, and maintaining hard surfaces with specialized equipment. The role also includes quality assurance towards the reduction of harmful pathogens for the benefit of patients, visitors, and staff. While executing the assigned tasks, the EVS Technician II will have contact with patients, visitors, and perhaps family members. This contact may include physical, psychological, educational, and safety-related aspects and should be appropriate to the specific demographics of patients served in assigned specialty service areas. The EVS Tech II is responsible for ensuring timely room turns related to patient throughput within the basic principles of environmental hygiene and infection prevention. The Environmental Services Technician II, in accordance with organizational standards of quality, is an essential contributor to cleaning, disinfection, infection prevention, and following all AORN Guidelines. This role has expanded responsibilities that including maintaining hard floors, carpet, and specialty projects when needed.

Minimum Requirements

Customer service and Environmental services experience preferred

About Baptist Health

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.

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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.

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