Housekeeper - Environmental Services Tech - Various -

Wellstar Health System; Marietta (GA); On-site; USD 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Wellstar Health System as a Housekeeper - Environmental Services Tech, where you will play a crucial role in maintaining the hygiene and safety of our healthcare facilities. This position involves a mix of routine and specialized cleaning tasks within hospital environments, ensuring compliance with health standards and providing excellent service to patients and staff. Ideal candidates will possess good customer service skills and a high school diploma as a minimum educational requirement.

Benefits

Great Benefits

Qualifications

• Must speak fluent English, able to follow cleaning protocols.
• Ability to communicate effectively with team members and patients.
• Completion of a departmental training program within the first 30 days.

Responsibilities

• Perform regular cleaning in accordance with health protocols.
• Properly manage waste disposal and recycling.
• Engage in customer service while interacting with patients and staff.

Skills

Customer Service

Interpersonal Skills

Attention to Detail

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

Housekeeper - Environmental Services Tech - Various -

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M - F and every other weekend

This critical role provides the full range of support necessary for regular, terminal, and isolation cleaning. A key part of this role's accountability is to ensure compliance standards are maintained during the cleaning of hospital specialty areas ( i.e. Operating Room Suites, CATH Labs, GI Labs, VARU, Pharmacy Compounding Lab, Vascular, Labor and Delivery Suites, etc.). More general duties include the following; 1) Proper removal, placement and transporting of waste (i.e. Solid, Chemotherapy, Bio-Hazard, Pharmaceutical, & Hot), recyclables, and other regulated materials; 2) Proper use of Ultra Violet Light devices; and 3) Changing out, removal and replacement of containers (Sharps, Pharmacy Waste, Bio-Hazard, & Chemo Therapy). Since this role is extremely visible to all stakeholders, the incumbent must have good customer service and interpersonal skills to effectively interact with staff members, guests, patients and their families. Individuals will be trained and authorized to handle the proper duties in their assigned areas.

Facility: Kennestone Hospital

Housekeeper - Full Time

Shift Vary

Great Benefits

M - F and every other weekend

This critical role provides the full range of support necessary for regular, terminal, and isolation cleaning. A key part of this role's accountability is to ensure compliance standards are maintained during the cleaning of hospital specialty areas ( i.e. Operating Room Suites, CATH Labs, GI Labs, VARU, Pharmacy Compounding Lab, Vascular, Labor and Delivery Suites, etc.). More general duties include the following; 1) Proper removal, placement and transporting of waste (i.e. Solid, Chemotherapy, Bio-Hazard, Pharmaceutical, & Hot), recyclables, and other regulated materials; 2) Proper use of Ultra Violet Light devices; and 3) Changing out, removal and replacement of containers (Sharps, Pharmacy Waste, Bio-Hazard, & Chemo Therapy). Since this role is extremely visible to all stakeholders, the incumbent must have good customer service and interpersonal skills to effectively interact with staff members, guests, patients and their families. Individuals will be trained and authorized to handle the proper duties in their assigned areas.

Core Responsibilities And Essential Functions

Safety & Infection Prevention

• Performs the full range of restroom cleaning and complete patient room cleaning. Always following the cleaning protocol as determined by room, area, location type, i.e. regular room cleaning, terminal cleaning, isolation room cleaning, etc.
• Follows infection prevention protocols, knowledgeable of and selects the proper chemicals to accomplish cleaning task(s)
• Performs the full range of routine type cleaning tasks such as maintenance of wall, doors, glass/windows, furniture, equipment, floors to include dust mopping, wet mopping, corners, edges, base coves, kick plates, etc.
• The proper removal of trash and linen, ensuring that waste streams guidelines and protocol is followed based on waste type, i.e. solid waste, bio-waste, chemotherapy waste, pharmaceutical waste, etc.
• Consistently uses correct personal protective equipment (PPE) and donning and doffing techniques to ensure personal safety and that of others.
• Consistently uses proper lifting techniques to avoid personal injury.
• Comply with all hospital and department rules, policies and procedures.
• Follow all protocol for proper and safe us of Ultra Violet Light equipment
• Places proper type, size and number of replacement liners in waste containers and complete proper tie off as required.
  
  

Customer Service

• Always exhibit a positive disposition when greeting and supporting staff members, patients, and visitors.
• Consistently practices great customer service shills and interpersonal skills when interacting with patients, patient family members, guest and co-workers.
• Consistently practices skills and behaviors that support efforts toward World Class Service
  
  

Teamwork

• Work with special project team and/or projects as assigned by supervisor.
• Participate in performance improvement projects as required
  
  

Communication

• Documents daily assignments completed. Adjusts to staff shortages and covers other assigned areas.
• Uses Epic system to maintain productive flow of beds and patients. Logs in and out as required.
  
  

Performs other duties as assigned

Complies with all WellStar Health System policies, standards of work, and code of conduct.

Required Minimum Education: High School Diploma General-Preferred or GED General-Preferred

Required Minimum License(s) And Certification(s)

All certifications are required upon hire unless otherwise stated.

Required Minimum Experience: Some experience Preferred

Required Minimum Skills: The ability to speak fluent English must possess the ability to read, write and understand simple instructions in English, The satisfactory completion of the Departmental Training Program must be accomplished during the first thirty (30) days of employment.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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