Hospital EVS Technician - Clean, Safe Patient Environments

Geisinger; Danville (PA); Hybrid; USD 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on Bonus up to $2,500

$2.00 shift differential for evening and night shifts

Competitive compensation and benefits packages

Education and professional development opportunities

Job summary

Geisinger, located in Danville, Pennsylvania, is seeking Environmental Services (EVS) staff to maintain a clean and safe healthcare environment. This important role involves cleaning patient and non-patient areas while ensuring compliance with safety and sanitation standards.

Available shifts include days, evenings, and nights, with a sign-on bonus of up to $2,500 for eligible candidates. Join our dedicated team and contribute to patient safety and quality care with competitive wages and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or Equivalent (GED) preferred.
• Detail-oriented and dependable.
• Ability to follow safety and cleaning protocols.

Responsibilities

• Cleans and disinfects patient and non-patient areas.
• Handles various waste streams appropriately.
• Follows hospital-approved cleaning product procedures.
• Reports facility repairs as needed.
• Utilizes mobile technology for compliance.

Skills

Attention to detail

Dependability

Education

High School Diploma or Equivalent (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

Join Our EVS Team and Help Create a Safer, Cleaner Hospital Environment!

Our EVS team provides essential healthcare environmental services 24/7—including weekends and holidays—to ensure the highest standards of cleanliness throughout the hospital.

All Shifts Are Available -- Days, Evenings, And Nights

• 7:00 am to 3:30 pm + weekend and holiday rotation
• 3:00 pm to 11:30 pm + weekend and holiday rotation
• 11:00 pm to 7:30 am + weekend and holiday rotation
  
  

We Are Proud To Offer

• Sign-on Bonus up to $2,500 for eligible candidates.
• $2.00 shift differential for evening and night shifts.
• Competitive compensation and benefits packages.
• Education and professional development including the nationally recognized CHEST certification (Certified Healthcare Environmental Services Technician).
  
  

Your work directly supports patient safety and quality care. If you’re detail-oriented, dependable, and passionate about making an impact, we’d love to have you on our team! Apply Today!

To learn more about our EVS team, please visit 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.