Healthcare EVS Technician - Clean & Elevate Patient Care

Geisinger; Pittston (Luzerne County); On-site; USD 16,531 - 24,796; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits from day one

Vision coverage

Dental coverage

Domestic partners coverage

Job summary

Geisinger in Pittston, PA is seeking a flexible Environmental Services (EVS) worker to maintain cleanliness and safety across patient and non-patient areas. The role emphasizes professional service standards and a strong focus on patient and family experience.

You will follow infection control procedures, use protective equipment, and support a positive patient experience while meeting hospital standards. This per diem role offers hours as needed with healthcare benefits for eligible staff.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED preferred.
• Experience in healthcare environmental services is a plus.
• Ability to follow safety and infection control procedures.

Responsibilities

• Cleans and disinfects patient and non-patient areas.
• Handles waste streams in accordance with policy.
• Wears appropriate protective equipment.
• Uses hospital-approved products for cleaning and disinfection.
• Places caution signage during cleaning and wet floors.
• Reports facility repairs as observed.
• Utilizes mobile technology for daily EVS tasks.
• Performs detailed cleaning including walls, ceilings, vents and lights.
• Collects soiled linen and transports it as needed.
• Complies with Medication Room protocols when applicable.

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

Job Summary

Performs a variety of healthcare environmental services (EVS) duties to enhance the healthcare environment by maintaining the location assigned. Follows special healthcare cleaning and trash handling techniques as required, ensuring professional and appropriate service standards while performing the job. Ensures the very best patient/family/ customer experience by optimizing all customer interactions.

Job Summary

Performs a variety of healthcare environmental services (EVS) duties to enhance the healthcare environment by maintaining the location assigned. Follows special healthcare cleaning and trash handling techniques as required, ensuring professional and appropriate service standards while performing the job. Ensures the very best patient/family/ customer experience by optimizing all customer interactions.

Job Duties

• Cleans and disinfects patient and non-patient facing areas, departments and spaces.
• Handles various waste streams to include but not limited to; municipal waste and recyclable waste.
• Wears standard personal protective equipment as required.
• Follows procedures for the proper use of hospital approved products utilized in the cleaning and disinfection processes.
• Places the appropriate signage in an area to indicate cleaning is occurring and floor is wet to reduce the risk of falls.
• Reports identified facility repairs as directed or observed, according to current established policy or procedure.
• Utilizes mobile technology to ensure compliance with bed management procedures and other environmental services functions that are performed daily.
• Performs detailed cleaning to include but not limited to; high dusting, walls, ceilings, tracks, vents and lights.
• Collects soiled linen and transports to hospital staging area for vendor pickup as applicable.
• All EVS Staff who enter Medication Rooms (Where Applicable) must receive mandatory education on proper Medication Room protocol.
  
  

Work is typically performed in a clinical environment. Accountable for satisfying all job specific obligations and complying with all organization policies and procedures. The specific statements in this profile are not intended to be all-inclusive. They represent typical elements considered necessary to successfully perform the job. Additional competencies and skills outlined in any department-specific orientation will be considered essential to the performance of the job related to that position.

Position Details

• This is a Flex position (per diem, hours as needed). Non-benefits eligible.
• To learn about our EVS team, click here: https://jobs.geisinger.org/evs
  
  

Education

Experience

High School Diploma or Equivalent (GED)- (Preferred)

Certification(s) and License(s)

OUR PURPOSE & VALUES: Everything we do is about caring for our patients, our members, our students, our Geisinger family and our communities. KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves. EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence. LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow. INNOVATION: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation. SAFETY: We provide a safe environment for our patients and members and the Geisinger family We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and domestic partners. Perhaps just as important, from senior management on down, we encourage an atmosphere of collaboration, cooperation and collegiality. We know that a diverse workforce with unique experiences and backgrounds makes our team stronger. Our patients, members and community come from a wide variety of backgrounds, and it takes a diverse workforce to make better health easier for all. We are proud to be an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or status as a protected veteran.